Divorce is hard, no matter what way you go about it. Mediation attempts to mitigate some of the difficulty by bringing together two basically reasonable adults and helping them work through their differences. It only works, however, if everyone is willing to negotiate...
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Month: June 2017
Social media and your divorce – what you should know
You and your husband have decided to divorce. The first thing you may want to do is to announce it to the world and change your Facebook status. It may be tempting to post pictures and updates as you begin to explore your new single life. In addition, you might find...
Company concerns over an executive’s divorce can affect business
When the owner, president, or chief executive officer (CEO) of a company goes through a divorce, it often seems like the whole company goes through the divorce at the same time. If this is your situation, you may want to keep your divorce fairly private in order to...
Lesbian couples sue Tennessee over definition of ‘parent’
When a married heterosexual woman is pregnant, her husband is automatically presumed to be the other parent of her child under the law -- even if there's evidence to the contrary. Overcoming that presumption is actually no little task and the subject of many legal...
Does your support obligation change during summer vacation?
What happens to your support obligation when your child ends up staying with you for the entire summer vacation? If you're paying child support to your child's other parent because he or she normally has physical custody the majority of the time and you've generally...
Can mediation hurt my divorce case in any way?
Divorce is an adversarial process, and it isn't uncommon for people to feel especially distrustful of everything that happens. That can make it hard to consider mediation as an alternative, since mediation requires a certain amount of openness and trust to work. If...
