It always amazes me how quickly the time passes between one year and the next. We've had a great year, and we're hoping that 2014 will bring even more joy, hope, and happiness to the lives of everyone around us. Here's hoping you have a very safe and happy holiday season, including a merry Christmas...
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If you and your husband are facing a divorce, you’re probably nervous about sharing the children by a certain schedule. In fact, if you’re like most moms, you’re unwilling to reduce parenthood to a specific schedule. “We’ll just work together and figure it all out,” they tell me, optimistically. “A set schedule is just too...
In any divorce, there are unexpected losses. With almost every single woman I’ve ever talked to about the realities of post-divorce life, they have indicated that there was something that was particularly difficult about their divorce that took them completely by surprise. For almost all of these women, the unanticipated but difficult event had something...
Choosing an attorney to represent you in your divorce can be a difficult undertaking. Sitting in a meeting with an insurance salesman the other day, I started to appreciate how my clients must feel when they’re sitting in my office. I like to think that I speak clearly and that my clients understand exactly what...
A marriage should make you happy. Maybe not all day every day, but, for the most part, you should feel like you and your husband are co-captains of the same team. You’re linked in terms of your common interests and goals and, on top of all that, you love and respect each other. If you’re...
One of the most difficult things about custody cases is dealing with the Guardian ad Litem. A Guardian ad Litem (or GAL) is an attorney appointed to represent the best interests of the child to the court. So, in many custody cases, there are three, not two, attorneys involved—one for mom, one for dad, and...
Every attorney brings something new to the table, and Lindsay Trasko is no exception. She’s one of the newer associates at Hofheimer Family Law Firm. She started with us in 2012, after graduating from law school at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serving a year as a clerk for Judges Croshaw, Hanson,...
When it comes to your divorce, money is always an issue. Whether you considered yourself to be financially comfortable before your divorce or not, you’ll have to adjust to a new normal afterwards. In addition to the actual financial costs specifically attributable to divorce (the cost of hiring a lawyer, paying for filing fees, costs...