Divorce unleashes different kinds of emotions, and often, parents are caught up in their pain and suffering to notice the emotional turmoil their kids are enduring. Whereas adults have learned to cope through the years, children are still developing their coping mechanisms and may not even know how to express their feelings, let alone deal…
You already know that divorce is never easy. When children are involved, the difficulties multiply. If you and your spouse are parents who are divorcing, try to work out your own child custody agreement, or a judge will do it for you. A Washington family law attorney can help. In the state of Washington, custody…
With the hundreds of family law cases, the attorneys at Pacific Northwest Family Law have seen and with school starting up again, we thought we’d throw together a list of the top triggers that cause people to come see us during the school year. Here are the top ten: Sports (really, this would take the…
The Attorneys at Pacific Northwest Family Law have seen hundreds of parenting plans. We’re often called on the fix and amend the parenting plans that people got working with other attorneys or they created when they tried to save money by doing it themselves. Here are eleven ways you can screw up your parenting plan…
I’ll admit it. I’m a softy. I also like my kids. Not that I get to spend all the time I want to with them. But knowing that when I get home, they’ll be there means a lot to me. But then school starts. The first day of school can be the worst. I mean…
Nearly 50% of all people married in the last twenty years are already divorced or will get divorced. Why? We don’t exactly know. Maybe it’s that we’re living longer – or maybe it’s the impact of technology. Either way, divorces are more common than ever. And if there are kids in the mix – then…
When you ask divorced parents who were unhappy for a while what took them so long to divorce, most of them will say they didn’t want to break up the family. Which is respectable, understandable, and very common. But getting a divorce doesn’t mean you’ll lose your sense of family. It just means the definition…
Washington law does not set out what a “normal” parenting plan should be. Instead, it encourages parties to reach their own agreement about parenting their child. If the parties cannot reach an agreement, however, the court must issue a parenting plan after taking various factors into consideration, including the child’s age. A parenting plan contains…
The reasons for a sole custody order will vary from case to case; some common reasons for a sole custody order are that the other parent is incarcerated, has drug or alcohol problems, lives out of state, the role of domestic violence, or is otherwise absent in the child’s life. In other cases, one parent may have just…