What should be our next step?

You should face the music. If you are dirty and using around your children, you are committing a crime and harming your children. Running away will...

Need to find a laywer to do a payment plan with me

Call around and see if you can find an attorney who will work with you. Most attorneys do not accept payments plans because people on payment plans...

If while pregnant you decide not to go to prenatal visits, are you breaking any laws?

No, there's nothing against the law in not going. That said, you should go. Any number of thing could go on between now and when it gets closer to...

Is it standard practice to not meet with your client prior to a hearing for temporary orders in a divorce?

I think you might be asking the wrong question. Instead of asking attorneys to weigh in on how they feel about your representation, you should ask...

Child support/Long distance custody questions.

Depends on what your divorce decree says. Many will allow a 50% reduction when the non-custodial parent exercises an entire month of parent-time....

In every case when this language has come up, it means the date the divorce was signed by the judge and finalized.

If I have to go to mediation for child custody case in 15 days do I need a lawyer what should I take

If you're going it alone, take your last three months of pay stubs and your last two years of taxes. If it's a paternity case and you're going to...

My ex husband wants to "make up" for the two months I had my children full time by taking them for a month straight. Can he?

Your divorce decree may have some language about this situation, but probably not. I know of almost no divorce decrees that state anything like...

How old does a child have to be to make there own decision on what parent they want to live with?

Short answer: 18. Longer answer: about 16. When kids hit 16, they kind of do what they want in divorce. They drive, they spend time with...

Can my ex husband deduct child support because he took our child for a 2 week visitation in the summer?

The language of your divorce decree always rules in situations like this, so go back and review it to see what is has to say. Generally...