Child support is not optional. There are very few black and white, hard and fast rules in family law, but this is one of them. Though it’s theoretically possible, especially in a shared custody situation, that the parties incomes could be close enough and the amount of time each parent spends with the child could…

I’m a person who lives in the world, and so, for me – like for anyone else – the topic of what I do for a living is something that comes up with some frequency. I usually just say something vague like, ‘Oh, I work at a law firm,’ so that they’ll hopefully stop asking…

  One of the scariest parts of divorce is losing health insurance. For a lot of people, the access to health insurance makes them stay in their marriage longer and even, after negotiating a separation agreement or going to court on a pendente lite and establishing temporary support, take longer to actually finalize a divorce….

  I’ve written about social media accounts before, but it seems like the landscape is constantly changing. With the advent of so many different platforms for sharing, we’re dealing with new issues all the time – and with clients who think less of sharing a LOT of themselves in very public platforms. I’m not one…

  For one reason or another, lots of times people just aren’t ready to finalize their divorce. Whether they’ve already negotiated a signed separation agreement or they’ve filed a contested divorce and had a few hearings, the urgency sometimes dissipates once temporary child and spousal support is established. After all, divorce comes with some inconvenient…