Lessons from my first contested termination of parental rights prosecution trial

March 30, 2017

Last week I represented a mother and step-father in a contested termination of parental rights(TPR)/step-parent adoption case. I have been a licensed attorney for over

You don’t have to pretend to be perfect

March 30, 2017

A lot of family court litigants harm their cases because they don’t want to admit anything that makes them look bad. Confronted with such behavior

What’s so primo about primacy?

March 26, 2017

Folks will often contact my office with a desire to file a divorce or custody case immediately, “before the other side does.” Sometimes there is

Should student loan payments be a factor in setting child support?

March 23, 2017

It has always struck me as fundamentally unfair that student loan payments–especially interest on those payments–are not deductible from income for income tax purposes. Borrow

Changes in the non-custodial parent’s income have a much bigger impact on child support than changes in the custodial parent’s income

March 20, 2017

Child support can be modified based upon a substantial change of circumstances. Common circumstances that justify a child support modification are when work-related child care

If you want peace, prepare for war

March 19, 2017

Clients often ask me, if the goal is to settle the case, why I ask them to gather substantial information or why I issue discovery

The unknown unknowns

March 15, 2017

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we

Half a life

March 14, 2017

I was 9,930 days old when I married Karen Anne Klickstein on December 30, 1989.  As of March 8, 2017, I had been married 9,930 days–half

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