Divorce is often a challenging and emotionally taxing experience. In some cases, individuals may become distraught, angry, or even vengeful towards their former spouses. Unfortunately, this emotional turmoil can sometimes lead to a harmful behavior known as parental...
Custody
Your Case Is Local, Until It Isn’t
When going through a family law case involving children, whether it is divorce or a modification of custody action, the focus is often on who is going to have primary custody (if anyone) rather than where that legal relationship with the children is going to be. There...
The Art of the Emergency Hearing
Going through divorce is hard enough. Facing a custody battle with your soon to be ex can be excruciating. Losing a loved one in the face of having children or grandchildren who need your help, your care, all of this is new territory, something unfamiliar and...
When It Lingers, It Festers
When it lingers, it festers. And, my life, it is festering; it is uncertain in its transformation of a rancid variety. It is less than ideal. The wounds opened in divorce were not healing. Seventy-four days have passed since that day, a day I realized was more wound...
10 Ways to be a Present Long-Distance Parent
When one thinks of a long-distance relationship, the first thing that typically comes to mind is a romantic relationship with a partner. But in the world of family law, a long-distance relationship often means the parent-child relationship of a parent who lives in...
Sophie Turner v. Joe Jonas: On Pause
Joe Jonas sued Sophie Turner for divorce in Florida. Sophie Turner sued Joe Jonas in New York for the return of their children to England. From the beginning, the Florida Divorce and Southern District of New York return of the children action between superstars Sophie...
Turner v. Jonas – What’s the End Goal?
Hot take coming in... I don’t think Sophie Turner filed her Petition for the Immediate Return of the Minor Children to England to actually return the children to England immediately. Based on Turner’s filings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
Presence is the Best Present
What is your dream gift? For some it might be a brand-new, candy-red Porsche 911 Carrera GTS with fewer miles than they have birthdays. For others, a sparkling new Rolex Daytona or other similarly rare timepiece that not only leaps off of one’s wrist into...
I can’t stand my ex, now how can I co-parent?
This is a question many separated or divorced parents face as they move from partners and parents to solely parents. Separation and divorce can really bring out the worst in people and then you add on the stress of the unknown and the emotional turmoil divorce and...
Child Physical Custody
When kids are part of the picture, divorce actions become exceedingly complicated. Unless parents can agree on the post-divorce redefinition of their family, courts are charged with the daunting task of determining what parenting arrangement would best serve the...