Types of Legal Issues
Our practice is limited to the field of Family Law, but includes negotiation, litigation (trials to a judge or jury), mediation, arbitration and Collaborative Law. We help people with the following issues:
Parent-Child Issues
- Divorce
- Child Custody
- Visitation/Access Rights, including specialized schedules for unique situations or employment schedules
- Child Support – initially setting it in a Paternity Suit or collecting it by an enforcement or contempt proceeding
- DNA Testing for Paternity
- Drug Testing
- Geographic Restrictions on residence/Relocations
- Grandparent Rights
- Parenting Plans
- Access Facilitation
- Social Studies
- Child Protective Services (C.P.S.) cases
- Joint Custody
- Conservatorship: Joint Managing, Sole Managing or Possessory
- Parental Rights, powers and duties
- Parenting Classes/Co-parenting Programs
- Non-parent Rights of Access
- Modification of prior orders
- Insurance and Medical Reimbursement issues
- Emancipation of a Minor
- Termination of Parental Rights
Property Issues
- Premarital/Prenuptial Agreements
- Marital Agreements
- Partition Agreements
- Complex Property Division issues
- Valuation, Tracing and Characterization of Property
- Determination of Separate Property
- Reimbursement
- Economic Contribution
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO)
The Litigation Process
- Temporary Orders
- Appeals of Temporary Orders
- Motion for New Trial
- Bill of Review
- Post-divorce Property Division
- Alimony/Spousal Maintenance
- Separation Agreements
- Agreements Incident to Divorce
- Clarification of prior orders
- Enforcement of prior orders
- Name Changes
We are not tax experts or financial planners, but we regularly work with them when our clients need that special assistance. We also bring in counselors and child specialists as needed. We can provide better service and save our clients money by bringing in specialists to help on various parts of the effort.
For more information on any topic mentioned here, please call. We will be happy to meet with you.
If you are looking for a particular type of service that is not listed here, please call and ask if we handle it. Chances are that we do if it is in the Family Law field. If the service actually is in another field of law, we can almost always refer you to a highly qualified lawyer in that field and we are happy to do so.