Financial Decisions to Make as You Divorce

November 14, 2009

Article in yesterday’s New York Times.   Should be required reading/checklist for divorce clients:  Financial Decisions to Make as You Divorce

Should a guardian ad litem have to “bless” every child custody agreement?

November 14, 2009

When parents seek approval of any agreement that resolves a dispute over a child’s custody, the family court judge looks to the guardian ad litem

How does one draft an affidavit?

November 5, 2009

For my mentees–and everyone else I have ever completely frustrated while trying to edit their affidavit: Almost any court hearing that does not allow testimony

216 months redux

October 28, 2009

A few months ago I blogged on the concept that a child’s minority only lasts for 216 months and that the number of months of

Family law’s massive sociological experiment(s)

September 27, 2009

Last night, while driving to the birthday party of my friends’ son, I was speaking on the phone to one of my oldest and dearest

Finding my religion

September 25, 2009

It does not take a cynic to note a high correlation between people becoming involved in custody cases and “finding religion.” So long as judges confuse

Could a different priority on custody factors lead to reduced acrimony between estranged parents?

September 20, 2009

In Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973), authors Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud’s daughter), Joseph Goldstein and Albert Solnit recommend that in a typical

216 months

July 29, 2009

It is 216 months from the time a child is born until the time the child turns eighteen.  Under South Carolina law the family court

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