For the purposes of this post, I will be discussing an adoption where one of the biological parents have not had their parental rights terminated. This typically occurs where one of the biological parents has custody of the child and that parent has re-married (or married for the first time). The procedure is largely the ...
I've been happily surprised lately about the number of calls and questions I've gotten concerning adoptions. The number of divorces the typical lawyer handles far outnumber the number of adoptions, so it's always a nice change to see someone wanting to expand their family by adoption. The entire process is far too long to make the ...
Attorney Fees. A divorce decree may call for one spouse to pay the attorney fees of the other. Unfortunately, the Internal Revenue Code considers such payments to not be deductible. There are two exceptions, though. (You really didn't expect the tax code to be that simple, did you?) First, if ...
A divorce usually involves some transfer of property, whether it be an interest in a house or other real property, a business interest, or even an investment. Contrary to the stereotype of the IRS, most of these transfers do not incur any tax liability. As long as the property transfer is "incident ...
Overall, the code sections regarding child support are much more simple than those regarding alimony. Like alimony, child support can come in many forms. It can simply be money that is paid to a custodial parent, it can be insurance payments, college expenses, or any other number of payments on behalf or benefitting ...