Having a child is a momentous occasion – but it’s also sometimes a fairly complicated one, especially if you and your child’s father aren’t together anymore. In reality, going into parenthood, especially with someone to whom you are no longer romantically attached (or maybe even to whom you were never really romantically attached) is...
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Custody and visitation is a challenge in any set of circumstances. It’s worth mentioning that, even among happily married couples, parenting challenges arise pretty consistently. It should probably come as no surprise that, for people who tried to be involved but ultimately couldn’t make the marriage or relationship work long term, there are additional...
At the outset of this discussion, I’ll admit: I take a dim view of prenuptial agreements. So, with that being said, I plan to use this article to discuss with you the various merits and demerits of prenuptial agreements. If you’re going into this hoping to decide that a prenuptial agreement is the solution...
Hey, you do you, right? I mean, that’s the way of the world anymore. Except … when what you want to do is not cool. So, real talk. Sometimes, we have clients who aren’t happy. I think probably just about every professional service group (doctors, lawyers, accountants, therapists, whatever) ultimately have some unhappy clients sometimes....
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...
We talked Wednesday 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...