While the fact that you are pregnant does not mean that you cannot get divorced, your pregnancy does raise some legal issues that as a practical matter may delay or impact your divorce proceedings. To some degree, the extent to which your pregnancy affects your divorce depends on whether the unborn child belongs to your…
Custody cases are difficult for all parties involved, and particularly for children. Some parties are able to privately negotiate their own residential schedules, either on their own or with the help of a third party mediator. When parties cannot reach a custody agreement, however, the judge must make a decision about what arrangements would be…
Although family courts historically may have given preference to mothers in awarding child custody, times have changed significantly. For far too many years, most people, including family court judges, assumed that the mother should have custody of the child and the father should pay child support and alimony to the mother. In today’s world, however,…