Insights

Preventing International Child Abduction

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageOctober 4, 2016

Preventing International Child Abduction – The topic of child abduction sounds awfully over the top in terms of the court looking out for a child’s best interest. We’ve discussed in previous blogs factors the court must investigate, including who can properly care for a child, parental fitness and paying close attention to existing family relationships.…

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Best interest of the child – A court’s decision

Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 27, 2016

Best interest of the child – A court’s decision In a divorce, it can often feel like everyone involved thinks they have all the answers – even when it comes to deciding what is in the best interest of the child. Whether it’s the parents themselves, or immediate family members, everyone’s got an opinion on…

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Possession and Access – Are they the same thing?

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 26, 2016

Possession and Access – Are they the same thing? – The terms possession and access sound a lot alike, and in many people’s mind, you can’t have one without the other. It’d be like having shoelaces with no shoes, or a CD without a CD player, right? After all, without possession, you can’t have access.…

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Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case?

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 15, 2016

Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case? People are often at logger heads with their divorce lawyer over the strategy to adopt. Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case? to take the divorce case forward. They can huff and puff and argue vehemently to make sure the lawyer adopts the strategy they…

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Conservators – Rights and Duties

Family Law, InsightsSeptember 13, 2016

Conservators – Rights and Duties As we discussed in our previous blog, a conservator is a person appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of a child. This person makes decisions on behalf of the child, and each of those decisions must be made with the child’s best interests in…

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Conservatorship Suits

Child Custody, Divorce, Insights, MarriageSeptember 7, 2016

Conservatorship Suits – A digestible overview With all this talk in previous blogs about suits affecting the parent-child relationship, I think now is a great time to discuss conservatorship suits – specifically, what they are and who can be appointed as the conservator for a child. First thing’s first, a conservator is a person appointed…

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What You Should Know About Your Divorce Lawyer

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 1, 2016

What You Should Know About Your Divorce Lawyer Not everyone is ready to go through a divorce. Divorce can often be a hard pill to swallow for the couple who decides to part ways. This is especially true for a person who has been forced into divorcing their partner. Irrespective of who took the decision…

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Intervenors – Sticking their nose where it belongs

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageAugust 30, 2016

Intervenors – Sticking their nose where it belongs There are plenty of people who naturally become involved in a divorce case. The obvious ones range from the presiding judge to mediators, counselors, lawyers, friends and family and the spouses themselves. Then there are those who are called intervenors. An intervenor is anyone who can, for…

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Dissolving a marriage with children

Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Insights, MarriageAugust 29, 2016

Dissolving a marriage with children – a digestible overview – Let’s move on in the conversation of divorce suits that involve children and dive into the process itself. Not to worry, this blog is not meant to inundate you with too much information – just a digestible overview. As stated before, these suits can be…

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Child-Custody determination

Child Custody, Child Support, Family Law, InsightsAugust 17, 2016

Child-Custody determination – The plan for the next few blogs is to dive into divorce suits affecting the parent-child relationship. To this point we have mostly discussed suits that do not involve children. While painful in their own right, these suits keep the court from having to deal with a much bigger issue – your…

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