Kids get hurt sometimes, despite our best efforts to keep them safe. When I was a kid, my younger sister once knocked out her front teeth at school in a game of crab soccer. Another time, she fell while climbing over our fence to get a ball for the dog, and needed a ton of...
Monthly Archive: March 2022
We talked WWednesday in a fair amount of detail about what happens when your co-parent violates a coparenting agreement or order entered by a court. Orders entered by the court are enforceable, which is why we go to all the trouble to make sure that our agreements are processed this way and that, when...
The whole reason we get custody orders – and agreements entered as orders – processed is so that they’re enforceable by the court in the event one (or both) parties wind up breaching the agreement. Actually, that’s what makes them powerful. It’s the fact that you’re not only memorializing what you’ve agreed to do,...
Meeting with a divorce attorney for the first time is a scary thing. Contemplating a divorce at all is scary. In fact, most of the women that I talk to initially are in the very early stages of the divorce process, and aren’t even 100% sure that they want to pursue a divorce at all...
We’ve all – at one point or another – dated someone who was less than suitable. Hey, I’m a divorce lawyer; I kind of specialize in unsuitable partners! But, sometimes, it’s less about the person than the timing of the relationship. During a custody case is a tricky time to date. I’m not saying you...
For all the clients who ask me about dating, I have just as many who insist that they’ll never date again. There’s probably lots who fall somewhere in the middle – maybe they’re wondering about dating, maybe they know they’re not ready yet, maybe they just can’t bring themselves to ask the question – but,...
It’s hard to know what shape a case will take from the very beginning. Some cases resolve quickly, even amicably. It may not be immediately obvious, either, because even the amicable ones often wind up in our offices after nasty fights. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that, at some point, almost all of...
Buying a home is easily one of the biggest financial transactions most of us make in our lifetimes. Next to getting a divorce, there are very few purchases or decisions that we make as adults that can have such far reaching consequences. As you can probably imagine, it’s not always easy to even qualify...