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Facebook: A leading cause of divorce?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve written before on how one needs to be careful of the evidence one leaves behind online. Lawyers are quickly learning to check online for evidence when a spouse is suspected of being unfaithful.
Statistics confirm this. The Sun recently [...]

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Visitation Must Be Specific

I have clients who wonder why I want to be so specific on establishing visitation between the children and the non-custodial parent. The answer is simple; the more specific you are, the less ambiguity (usually) exists. Also, based on my own experience as a divorce parent, I think specificity helps when it comes to planning [...]

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How soon can I get to court?

One of the most common questions I get is “How long is this going to take?” People want to know how long will they be tied up in litigation, and when can they get on with their lives. Like so many things were the legal process is concerned, there are no clear answers.
There are processes [...]

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When Worlds Collide

People like to classify things. That includes laws and lawyers. Both the public at large and we attorneys like to talk about different areas of the law as if they were nice and neat—totally separate from one another.
For example, we talk about family law (or divorce law), personal injury law, contract law. “Oh,” we might [...]

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Sorry, I’m not Licensed There

Most laypersons don’t understand just how state specific law is—or at least I didn’t before I went to law school. That is very true about family law. There are some general principles that are mostly the same everywhere in the U.S., but the devil, as they say, is in the details.
Ben Stevens (aka The Mac [...]

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