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Thinking about moving with your child out of state? Are you leaving the other parent behind, perhaps because he/she does not live with you? First, you must get the court’s permission. Halle Barry is doing just that right now. Halle Barry filed documents in Court asking permission to move with her fiancé Olivier Martinez and her daughter [...]

Alimony Arithmetic: More States Are Looking at Formulas to Regulate Spousal Support Posted Feb 1, 2012 3:30 AM CST By L. J. Jackson, ABA Journal. If workers’ compensation law “can put the value on a [human] toe, how do you quantify how much the loss of a marriage means to somebody?” asks Atlanta lawyer Randall [...]

After the holidays divorce is on the rise. How you approach divorce and what method you ultimately choose to get a divorce may reflect greatly on your emotional and financial well-being. The article below was written by British lawyers, but it seems that approach to a collaborative divorce is encouraged universally: “Despite the fact that [...]

Temporary marriages will certainly solve the family courts’ backlog of divorces. Mexico’s ‘temporary’ marriages: till death – or two years – do us part Mexico City is studying a plan to introduce ‘temporary’ marriage licenses – letting couples choose after two years to split or renew the license for life – in an effort to [...]

Most people may know that if you transfer your real estate property to a family member, neither of you will have to pay a transfer tax because it is a transfer within a family. Similarly, if you are getting a divorce and one spouse transfers his/her share of martial home to the other spouse, neither [...]

Trust is more about what I believe about me than it is about knowing what someone else will do. “How would you live if you felt you could trust life fully? If you believed you were totally protected and secure, that forevermore your life would be filled with love and prosperity? Think of how your [...]

By any measure, the murder of the Japanese woman named Yuriko and her two children was a grisly one. Yuriko endured an abusive marriage that included a forced abortion and a philandering husband who repeatedly left her and threatened her with divorce. The two fought continuously over Yuriko’s demand that her husband, Mitsutaka, change jobs [...]

Supreme Court Affirms Invalidation of California Restrictions on Violent Video Games 7-2 decision reaffirms several strongly speech-protective precepts, reinforces constitutional protections for children and video games, and underscores recent holding against creation of new categories of “unprotected” speech  The Supreme Court’s June 27, 2011, decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) invalidated California’s “violent [...]

Photograph by Alex Mogilevsky (unrelated to this law firm). The U.S. Supreme Court has found no automatic right to counsel for indigent civil defendants facing jail time, though it ruled on behalf of a father who served a year in prison for failing to pay child support. The father, Michael Turner, was deprived of his [...]

“Today, the engine of government says that we will move towards justice, towards fairness, towards equal protection under the law,” said Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner Debra Shore, who attended the civil union kickoff this morning. “This is a day long in the making and I wish I could have been there to celebrate with [...]

Watch a 20 min. video of an actual couple who utilized Collaborative Process to fashion their divorce agreement and allowed it to be captured on tape. Click here to WATCH video For more videos and information on collaborative process visit Collaborative Practice Professionals of Illinois  

Authorities have shut down a birthing center in California for Chinese “maternity tourists” who wanted their babies born in the United States. The women paid tens of thousands of dollars to have their babies delivered in a row of connected townhouses on a quiet street lined with palm trees in San Gabriel, the New York Times [...]

Back in 2002, Linda Lowney drafted a will for her client, Thor Tollefsen, that provided for his estate to go to his sister and two nieces in Norway. But by 2005 the 54-year-old California attorney had become involved with Tollefsen, 85. He gave her $339,000, with his nieces’ consent, and the two got married in [...]

If the parents cannot come to an agreement on which type of school the child will attend, the Judge will decided. Inevitably, one parent will be left unhappy. In a New Hampshire case the trial Judge decided that a public school was a better alternative and a religious argument for home school did not prevail [...]

One company in the world, WedLock Divorce, located in Utah, offers insurance premiums solely to cover losses in the event of a divorce. They offer lump sum insurance payout after your divorce is completed, and it does not appear to result in a loss of insurance premiums if you were to get a divorce before you become eligible to receive your insurance benefit.