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Dillon Gardner Coil
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What you are asking depends on what state has jurisdiction over the matter....
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Shawn B Alexander
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The short answer is yes there are some protections. I have pasted a link to the...
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Susan Lee Beecher
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The court is understandably more concerned with the child's rights than with...
Frank A Selden
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Guardianships of minors expire when the child becomes a legal adult....
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Laura Mcfarland-Taylor
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Go to your landlord and ask for permission to have a cat and offer to pay a pet...
Fabio Ambrosio
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Your question is complicated, but to answer it shortly, "yes, there are...
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This is a situation that requires a face-to-face consulation with an...
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Shannon M Underwood
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This depends on many factors. Generally, a United States citizen parent may...
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John M. Kaman
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Family law encompasses all kinds of issues besides divorce. Custody, for...
Alan Scott Funk
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Understand: leaving an abuser can be a process, rather than an event. That...
Susan Lee Beecher
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Since you are in Seattle, call DAWN, Domestic Abuse Women's Network. I don't...
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Jeffrey Patrick Bassett
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You don't indicate whether you need to "enforce" it because you're having...
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I am the mother who posted the question above. In regards to you answer; In...
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Elizabeth Rankin Powell
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Arguably twelve years. If the carpet is twelve years old, it is of no further...
Yale Lewis III
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if the other party is relocating, she must notify you, in writing, per the...
Dave Hawkins
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First and foremost, the mother must under Washington law file a relocation...
Thuong-Tri Nguyen
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The obligation to pay child support generally ends at death. The new wife does...
Yale Lewis III
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new wife is not responsible for child support. See the previous atty's...
Jeffrey Patrick Bassett
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I don't know that there's a specific way to answer this. In the usual...
Carolyn Annette Elsey
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If there's no restraining order (or provision in any "open adoption" agreements)...
Margery Ellen Golant
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In most states, your husband can't adopt another man's child without the...
Yale Lewis III
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Upon adoption, the bio father will no longer owe future support. However, he...
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Birney O'Brian Bull
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If it can be done at all (quite possibly not), you will DEFINITELY need a...
Yale Lewis III
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the basic answer is that an adoption is final and can't be undone. however,...
Yale Lewis III
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no. the state will not pay off the back child support. that is ridiculous....
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