This is important information whether you pay or receive child support. Information most lawyers do not tell you at the time the child support order was issued. Information that may help keep many of you out of court, or have better success in court. If you receive child support, you probably get a basic child support amount paid weekly,
Too many people call me to handle their divorce asking for costs, informing me it is an uncontested divorce. Before answering any questions, I probe further. I ask if the spouse also wants the divorce. Often I am told no. Other times the person says yes, then I ask if the spouse agrees as to custody and visitation. Often I …
Perspective clients for divorce and family law cases tend to confuse me by using the wrong terminology. I have learned not to rely on the clients use of terminology and probe deeper to find out what is really meant. So, this article will address the correct usage of the terms most often misused by clients in divorce, child custody, child …
Presently when parents of a child in common no longer reside together, one parent pays child support to the primary residential parent. Child support includes a basic periodic payment of money that is paid to the residential parent. In addition the nonresidential parent also contributes a set pro rata percentage of add-ons, i.e., unreimbursed uninsured medical costs, childcare, college. For …
In divorce and child custody cases, too often a potential new client wants to tell me his or her story and what he or she thinks his or her soon to be ex should and should not be entitled to, and why. It is not easy to get some potential new clients to understand that they know their life story, …
When you are involved in a child custody proceeding in Family Court or as part of a divorce, you need to emphasize de-escalation of acrimony. Do not be reactionary to the other parent’s taunts, provocations or pushing of your buttons. You want the court to see that no matter what happens, you remain calm, rational and peaceful. Only then will …
So, your spouse attempted suicide months ago and you are going to try to use at trial for custody. You think your spouse had something evil to do with the death of the family pet last year and you hired an expert to testify about it at trial to try to get custody. Anything and everything traumatic that may have …
We live in a world where people, especially those who are politically correct wish to make everything one size fits all. In this blog, I am going to focus on domestic violence where everyone wants to claim it is always an issue of power control, and why we should question that.
Court appointed neutral experts are regularly used in divorce actions. The agreement and use of only one expert for each area needing an expert can save litigants thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars and then some. Some situations do require each party to retain his/her own expert, but that is not the focus of this article. The focus …
If you badger your estranged spouse, ex-spouse or other parent of your child(ren) not to use the attorney he or she retained, you only guarantee he or she does use that lawyer and follows that lawyers instructions to the tee, even if to him or her in the long run. You will cause your estranged spouse, ex-spouse or other parent …
