As the tax filing date for 2006 steadily approaches and you begin organizing and/or gathering documents to assist in your upcoming tax preparation for the 2006 fiscal year, you may want to consider whether you and your spouse are going to file married jointly or married filing separately. Disadvantages of Separate Returns: Married couples who…
The Child Enforcement Agency in Butler County, Ohio is working with three Cincinnati area pizza parlors to add wanted posters of parents accused of skipping out on child support on pizza boxes. Each box of pizza is plastered with a poster with the names, photos, and last known addresses of ten parents who are not…
Once upon a time, you mailed poetic words printed on pearly paper to friends and family, inviting them to share the joy on your wedding day. But sometimes what begins as marriage ends in divorce. Sharing that news? Just what is divorce announcement protocol? Write a personal letter? Call people? Send e-mails? Preprinted announcements with…
Syndicated columnist, college professor, and author Tom McMahon, offers the following guidelines for parents involved in contentious divorces to follow to minimize the negative effects on their children: Coexist peacefully with your former spouse. This involves putting aside your differences for the sake of the children and supporting each other in the continuing roles as…
Michael Sherman at Alabama Family Law Blog is continuing his series of posts on Preparing for Divorce: We continue with our series on steps to take when divorce is imminent. We are on to Step 7 which is Assess the Financial Accounts. If you’ve completed the prior steps in this series, then you already know…
The following article is by North Carolina family law attorney Lee Rosen: Nationwide, collaborative divorce is attracting considerable attention as a proactive and humane settlement option, and it’s starting to catch on . . .. When executed as agreed to by divorcing individuals and their attorneys, studies show that a collaborative settlement is reach faster…
A widowed father lost his bid Monday to have the Supreme Court decide whether grandparents should have court-ordered visits with his son. The justices refused to get involved in the dispute between Shane Fausey, a federal-prison guard in Pennsylvania, and his dead wife’s mother. Cheryl Hiller won rulings in Pennsylvania courts giving her regular visits…
Some Already Wed Couples Agree to Disagree It may not be romantic, but a number of couples are using postnuptial agreements to avoid future fights over finances. The postnup, which is neither as popular nor as tested in the courts as its big sister, the prenup, is an agreement signed during marriage. The voluntary contract…
Looking at supermarket tabloids, it seems like celebrities pick up an adopted child as easily as we grab a bag of groceries. But it’s not so simple for the nonfamous to add another member to our families. Stricter laws governing adoptions from places like China and Romania are sending families who want to adopt back…
Gaetano Ferro, a New Canaan, Conn., divorce lawyer, remembers a particularly unusual case from about a decade ago. It involved a custody dispute over a springer spaniel. What Ferro remembers the most are the snickering judges, the ribbing and "hooting and hollering" in the courthouse. And he recalls that the couple finally decided that the…
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I’m not sure there are official statistics for this, but based on my years of experience as a Marietta wills and trust lawyer, the number one reason people don’t do their estate plan is that they simply can’t face their own mortality. In a way, we are like the groundhog…occasionally we stick our heads out…