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Family Lawyers meet to help improve things
I owe it to my clients to learn as much as I can to help them. Continue reading
Posted in alimony, Articles, Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Discovery, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Financial, Judge, Lawyer, Legal
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Welcome 2013
Court decided resolution is never as good as a result agreed to by the people involved. And that can best be accomplished if we act civilly. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Gay Adoption, gay marriage, Judge, Lawyer, Legal, same sex marriage
Tagged 2013, Custody, divorce, divorce law, Divorce Lawyer, doma scotus, family law, gay divorce, International custody, same sex, same sex divorce, same sex marriage
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Bar Mitzvah Year?
Bar Mitzvah year, 2013 2013, a future has arrived. Just the name of the year, 2013, still sounds to me like a science fiction title. While the number 13 has to many been a symbol of bad luck, it seems … Continue reading
Kids Rules
Again I wrote for LinkedIn and want to share it here as well: Parents, even parents not going through a divorce, often ignore what is in their children’s best interests. I do not mean forgetting meals or not educating them, … Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Judge, Lawyer
Tagged Custody, divorce, divorce children visitation, divorce kids, parenting
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Guess what? You are not the mother, the kids are mine!
…whether a “surrogate” mother is also a legal mother? Continue reading
Posted in Assited Reproductive Technology, Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Discovery, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Gay Adoption, gay marriage, High Profile Cases, Judge, Lawyer, Legal, same sex marriage, Uncategorized
Tagged ART, assisted reproductive technology, child custody, Custody, divorce, family law, gay rights, surrogacy, surrogate mother, visitation
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Double Duty, Quadruple Duty Family Law Day; Divorce Seminar, Child Abuse Seminar and 2 TV interviews
I didn’t do anything complex or change anything or anyone, but I did my little part, using the knowledge I have, to try to improve lives. And that made the day wholly worthwhile. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Celebrity Cases, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, High Profile Cases, Judge, Lawyer, Legal
Tagged celebrity divorce, Custody, divorce, family law, High Profile Divorce, International custody, Kate Middleton, Kelly Rutherford, paparazzi
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Custody ruling against woman with cancer
…the factors the judge likely focused on were those that affected the children and what would give them the best shot at good, stable futures. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, High Profile Cases, Judge, Lawyer, Legal, Uncategorized, Visitation
Tagged best interests child, cancer custody, Custody, divorce, family law
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ABA meeting informative and rewarding
The Annual American Bar Association meeting, held this year in Toronto, has been quite interesting. I have gone to meetings for all sorts of committees (Commission on Youth at Risk, and many others) and seminars on all sorts of topics … Continue reading
Posted in American Bar Association, Child custody, Custody
Tagged ABA, American bar association, Custody, divorce, family law, Gay, homosexual, Lawyers
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New law-Custody for Military Families
No law is perfect, but hopefully this law will help military families and their children, and hopefully does not reduce the emphasis that must always be placed on ensuring that we do what is in the best interests of the child. Continue reading
Why not seal divorce records?
The parties, if they have children, will continue to interact and be somewhat interdependent on each other after the divorce. Why allow more roadblocks, like allowing outsiders to know their private business, to make their life any harder than it already will be? Continue reading
Posted in alimony, Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Discovery, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Financial, Judge, Lawyer, Legal, Misc, Visitation
Tagged Attorneys, Children, Custody, divorce, divorce children, divorce court, family attorneys, Family Court, family law, family lawyers, Seal, sealed divorce, sealed records, visitation
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2010, the year in family law.
Here’s to hoping that things get better for those who had a rough 2010, and that those who didn’t, continue to be blessed in 2011 and beyond. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Celebrity Cases, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, gay marriage, High Profile Cases, Lawyer, Legal, Visitation
Tagged 2010, 2010 divorce, 2010 family law, 2011, 2011 family law, celebrity, celebrity divorce, Custody, divorce, family law, mel gibson, Tiger Woods
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Judicial Elections, what is a lawyer’s role?
That spot on the ballot for “judge” may just be the most important box you check. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Judge, Lawyer, Legal
Tagged Custody, elections, family law, judges, judicial, judicial candidate, judicial race, trial lawyer, vote, voters
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ABA Family Law Section to meet in Fort Worth
This Wednesday through Saturday, the ABA Family Law Section hosts it’s annual Fall seminar (next October we are meeting in Las Vegas). True to form, the programming is excellent, filled with excellent speakers on excellent topics of interest to family … Continue reading
Posted in Adoption, alimony, American Bar Association, Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Financial, Judge, Lawyer, Legal
Tagged ABA, American bar association, continuing legal education, Custody, divorce, divorce lawyers, family law, family lawyers, Lawyers, tax and divorce
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Temporary Custody should not automatically = Permanent Custody
But if we, and importantly the judges, can know the very present, then we are more likely to formulate plans for our children that will work now, and hopefully into the future. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Judge, Lawyer, Legal, Visitation
Tagged Custody, custody case, custody decision, Georgia custody law, Georgia Law, temporary custody, temporary hearing, trials, visitation
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Recalling the first test tube baby
1978. That was the first time in the history of the world that a child was conceived outside of a mother’s body, with a donated/borrowed egg and then successfully carried through pregnancy to life. Continue reading
Closing a door, opening a window (Sandra Bullock for example)
The bottom line is that change is inevitable and when it is as significant as a divorce, everything changes. Continue reading
Posted in Attorney, Celebrity Cases, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Court, Family Law, Lawyer, Legal
Tagged celebrity divorce, Children, Custody, divorce, High Profile Divorce, marriage, parenting, relationships, Sandra Bullock, separation
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Mel Gibson
One thing is clear, especially to me as a family law attorney: abusive behavior is certainly not limited to the poor or uneducated. Continue reading
Posted in Celebrity Cases, Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Law, High Profile Cases, Uncategorized, Visitation
Tagged celebrity, Custody, family law, Restraining Order, Visitation.
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Mediation and Settlement
I enjoy serving as a mediator and do it three or four times each year. Continue reading
Posted in Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Law, High Profile Cases, Uncategorized, Visitation
Tagged Custody, divorce, domestic relations, family law, Lawyer, Mediation, Settlement
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Summer Visitation and Custody Issues
Each summer, thousands of parents reach for their custody papers. They need to re-read them to confirm which week is theirs, or if their ex can really insist on a certain schedule with the children. Inevitably, visitation issues arise which … Continue reading
Posted in Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Law, Visitation
Tagged Custody, divorce, family law, visitation
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Families Matter
Last week in Baltimore, MD, the University of Baltimore Law School and the ABA Family Law Section co-hosted a very special event, The Families Matter Symposium. The “Families Matter” idea is a platform of three consecutive Chairs of the ABA Family … Continue reading
Posted in Child custody, Custody, Divorce, Family, Family Law, Visitation
Tagged Children, Custody, divorce, Families, Families Matter, Family, family law
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