Do I have to identify my child in divorce petition?

No, as my colleagues indicate. However, if any of these other children reside with you, you are required to identify them on page 3 of your Income...

How can I retain an attorney for 2 hours pro bone to negotiate with my exhusband for a settlement?

It is a nice sentiment that you will gladly pay an attorney's fee from a settlement. You probably will keep your word. Great. However, it is not...

When in court, the judge decides spousal support (unless the parties agree in the hallway and the agreement is either read into the record or the...

Chambers conferences usually concern matters of a sensitive nature which the parties, typically through their attorneys, convince the judge to hear...

Easy divorce for desertion?

Whether divorce or annulment, your wife needs to be served with the papers you file in court. Ideally, she will be personally served. If you do...

IN A FAMILY LAW If a person claims is the inventor of a patent, is this reported in his family law schedule of assets and debts?

Failure to report the patent, like any other asset, contingent or not, may result in the court setting aside a judgment. Please consider...

I have a son and his father is 15 like me Im not happy living with my parents all we do is fight. Can his mom get custody of me?

If you are 15, then you are a minor and under the legal authority of your parents, fighting or not, and this typically continues until you reach...

I'm getting divorced, can my husband get custody of my daughter if I date before the marriage Is officially over?

The court's only concern regarding minor children in a dissolution action is their 'best interests'. Dating, at any time, by itself will not...

The main body of an MSA I typically prepare (without minor children) is approximately 30 pages in length. Pages for signatures, acknowledgments,...

Is it illegal for custodial parent to not allow child to see non-custodial parent on day child is scheduled to be w/ custodial?

Follow the court's orders...to the letter. If either party wants something different, get a court order approving the change. Do not take the law...