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…
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…
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…
Summary of Common Family Law Terms (Vol. III) Let’s take a brief timeout and reflect on several important legal terms and phrases that have popped up in our blogs over the last few months. I do this because some of these terms have been discussed in broader detail, while others were mentioned in passing or…
Alimony defined – When a couple decides to go through the process of a divorce, there is a lot more that goes into it besides simply appearing before a judge, signing a piece of paper, and then going their separate ways. Depending on the case, there are division of property concerns, child custody issues and,…
Preparing for your day first day in a Family Law Court Going through a divorce is one thing and having to visit the court’s hearing is quite another. Family law courts are the place where your divorce cases are heard. They not only hear cases of divorce they are also the place where couples fight…
Three Suits to Dissolve Marriage without Children – So you got married but things did not quite work out the way either of you had hoped and now your heart – and mind – are set on getting a divorce. There is nothing easy about the process of ending a marriage, both emotionally and when…
How not to become a Disney Dad It is a well documented fact that children of broken marriages can often come off the worse in a post divorce scenario. They are filled with guilt and shame about the fate of their parent’s marriage and can go into a shell, if they aren’t handed led with…
Types of Marital Agreements – There can be negative and persistent thoughts involved in bringing a marital agreement of any kind into a relationship, especially if the idea for it wasn’t conceived by both spouses. Why doesn’t my future spouse trust me? Is this fair to me and/or our future children? What ever happened to, until…
One more thing on Property Liability – My goal for these weekly blogs has been to break down one family law subject at a time into bite-size pieces that everyone can understand and refer back to when necessary. It is not always easy to do that given the nature of some topics, and our last blog…