All-New Total Divorce
We recently launched our new Total Divorce site – same great content and resources with a brand new look. Check out our new updates today, and keep checking back with us as we work on updating and developing our Web site.
Also, check out our latest news this week:
The Fight for Same-Sex Marriage
On Nov. 4, California voters were presented with Proposition 8 on their ballots and they voted to pass it. The measure banned gay marriage in the state and put thousands of same-sex marriages in jeopardy.
A new study, issued by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, profiles adoption habits across the United States and challenges many stereotypes about the most likely type of individual to adopt children.
Child Support Requirement for Prison Inmates Fair?
While most disputes over child support focus on the amount of support to be paid and the details of qualified expenses and similar questions, rarely do you hear the case made that a court order for child support is NOT in the best interests of the child.
However, in cases in which the non-custodial parent cannot possibly pay an ordered amount of child support, what good is the support doing? Consider the sticky situation of the non-custodial parent being incarcerated. With child support payments accruing and no income to be paid, should prison inmates be forced to pay?
Child Custody Disputes can Lead to Kidnapping
One of the saddest and most frustrating things about some divorce cases is the fact that many parents use their minor children as weapons against each other. Divorce lawyers say that more often than not, epic battles waged in divorce court over child custody and child visitation have nothing at all to do with the children.
Computer Files Accepted as Evidence in Divorce Case
Lawmakers have struggled to keep up with Internet technology in the past decade or so, but there are still many instances in which legal issues regarding computer use and data must be decided by a judge or judicial panel. In these cases there may be no existing law dealing with the issue at hand, or the existing statutes and case law decisions may be vague or outdated. The use of information retrieved from a computer has been the subject of a discovery dispute in a New York divorce case.
