Legal Articles

Parenting time, often referred to as visitation or custody, is a critical aspect of family law that determines how parents share responsibilities and time with their children after a divorce or separ...

Many clients insist upon having a 50/50 parenting time schedule for different reasons. Some just want more time with their child. Others want a break on child support. Some want it for both reasons. ...

Many clients ask me if they can start dating while still receiving maintenance from their former spouse. The answer is yes, as long as you don’t “cohabitate” with your significant other “on a...

With the skyrocketing cost of attorneys and the move in our culture toward making access to justice to everyone a reality rather than just a “pie-in-the-sky” concept, many people are choo...

Many potential clients ask me to establish a trust for them because they wish to avoid the nefarious “court probate process.”  However, in many cases, I end up giving these clients other mor...

Many people think that they can whip out their iPhone and record their spouse engaging in bad behavior to bolster their child custody case.  Some people think it is okay to retrieve their spouse’s...

Is Facebook YOUR Friend? If you are going through a divorce, the answer is simple:  No.  Lawyers often turn to the cheapest and easiest source to obtain “dirt” on the opposing party, which are ...

Effective June 1, 2018, a court has the discretion to credit a maintenance payor for the amounts of temporary maintenance paid under an order for support which will count for the total duration of ma...

Since using the “Income Shares” model for calculating child support for a few years, I have a few observations about the statute both from a practice stand point and a client stand point.   ...

The first question I ask during an estate planning consultation is "what are your estate planning goals?" Seven out of ten times, clients are not even aware that they should identify what their goals...