Spousal Maintenance and Retirement Accounts

Ideally, divorce should be rare. It should be a civil and calm procedure that allows people to maintain both their dignity and lifestyles while safeguarding the children’s emotional, mental, and physical health. All too often, of course, the negative emotions coupled with divorce translate into a fierce battle of wills as spouses attempt to punish […]

Divorce and the Division of Assets

It is not overstating the situation to say that divorce is a difficult and chaotic period in anyone’s life. After years of working to combine two lives, two incomes, two sets of assets, suddenly you begin working to separate them. Years and years of mutually-owned objects and assets must suddenly be assessed, valued, and divided. […]

How Can I Change a Child Support Order?

One of the most obvious and most difficult aspects of a divorce in any state is the limitation it can place on your parenting time spent with your children. Even the most ideal divorce typically means one parent suffers from a loss of time spent with their children, and in extreme cases one parent loses […]

Defending Juvenile Crimes

Juveniles are by their very nature inexperienced, but often assume they know more than they do. They often also assume they cannot or will not be held accountable for their actions, whether due to their experience of parenting styles or because they have never really experienced real trouble before. When this youthful assumption of invincibility […]