Post-Divorce Issues That Require Legal Assistance Making it through a divorce is an accomplishment – albeit not everybody’s shining moment. Few people finalize a divorce and remark how easy or pleasant it was. Invariably, they are hard and they get harder when there are children, assets...
I can’t tell you how many times I have had a client come in for a consultation who tells me that they represented themselves in Court by filling out the self-help paperwork available online and now there is a problem. Sometimes the problems are easy...
For parents readying for divorce, there’s plenty to process. As with most of life’s trying events, fortune favors the prepared. While there are many things you can’t possibly know in advance, aspects like child support calculations are somewhat predictable. Knowing what you’ll soon be budgeting...
We only get to grow up once. And it takes a long time (especially when looking up from a child’s perspective). Interestingly, we, humans—the planet’s apex predator—take by far the longest of any creature to gain self-reliance. We also happen to be the most helpless...
Over the years practicing family law, I’ve just about seen it all - from sublimity to depravity, inspirational to deplorable, to the downright bizarre. There’s even the occasional drama free, amicable divorce. While the months leading up to it probably weren’t a sunlit stroll, such...
Mediation. This is what you want. Take it from this happy mother of three. During your divorce, keeping your life, your children, assets and future in your hands and out of the court’s is the best thing you can do for everyone. The moment you...