Getting divorced can be a stressful and time-consuming process. For most clients, divorce proceedings involve spending a lot of time collecting financial records and scouring e-mail accounts and social media for relevant documents and information. It is therefore not...
Family Law
FAMILY LAW IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS
Protective Orders:While the Court's are generally closed, they are open for certain emergencies. One of those emergencies is protective order requests. If someone has engaged in an act which puts you in fear for your health and/or safety, call the police to have it...
How does an adoption affect you?
Adoption impacts people in many ways. The children get to live in a supportive home environment. The parents get to bring home children they've wanted to have in their lives. It's true that adoption has many benefits, but it also has some stressful factors to...
Statistics to consider when thinking about adoption
If you're someone looking to adopt a child, one of the best ways to do so is to start as a foster parent. Foster parents get to know children and provide them with safe homes. Some foster children go on to be available for adoption, while others return to their...
Opioid epidemic leads to increased need for foster parents
If you're looking to adopt, now may be a good time to consider your options. The opioid epidemic has placed many people into hospitals and resulted in many overdoses. As a result, children are entering foster care at high rates. Particularly in places such as the Ohio...
Grandparents can play a positive role during a divorce
When children go through a divorce, it's difficult for them. They have to adjust to new situations and may have their lives uprooted. They might find themselves in new homes or living alone with a mother or father and unable to see the other parent.As a grandparent to...
Parental alienation has 2 sides and can result in a struggle
Parental alienation syndrome is a serious problem in some child custody cases. Parental alienation is a situation where one parent believes that the other has turned his or her children against him or her as a result of the custodial parent's indoctrination and...
Seeking citizenship for a foreign-born American child
When a child is born in another country while on a military base or to American parents, the right paperwork must be filed to help that child obtain citizenship. It is an automatic right, but the correct legal paperwork still has to be filed.If a child is born out of...
Tri-parenting is becoming the new normal in more court rulings
Children don't always have only two parents. Some in divorced families have two sets of mothers and two sets of fathers. Even though only two people are biologically related to a child, that doesn't mean a third person isn't as involved or doesn't deserve the same...
What happens when unmarried couples live together and separate?
When unmarried people live together, they begin to collect assets together, much like married couples. In most cases, these individuals aren't protected by marital laws, so there is no requirement that they split assets upon moving out or breaking up. Fortunately,...
