16 May 2013 0 Comments

Financial support payment

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Share If you are going through a divorce, the lives of your minor children may be altered.  One of the first issues that come to mind is child support. Child support is the financial support paid from one parent to [...]

29 April 2013 0 Comments

Grandparents Rights

Share When a divorce occurs and child custody and visitation are to be determined between the parents we cannot forget the grandparents who also have a right to visitation with their grandchildren, if it can be proven there is a strong bond between the two and if it is in the child best interest to [...]

20 April 2013 0 Comments

411 On Guardianship

Share To learn more about your rights as a grandparent or about what our lawyers can do to help — Contact Us at (951) 274-9448 If you are aware of a child in your extended family who is suffering from lack of care because of his or her parents’ incapacity to provide for health and [...]

15 April 2013 0 Comments

A Study Shows That Parents Who Don’t Buckle Don’t Buckle Their Children Either

Share Recently, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published results from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey. The survey examined the everyday use of seat belts and other safety restraints, with an entire section dedicated to car safety for kids. They did this by observing drivers at stops signs and red lights. The study showed [...]

4 April 2013 0 Comments

Parental arguments negatively affect children

Share A new study released March 28, 2013 in the journal for Child Development shows that arguments between Mom and Dad can alter the stress responses of children. This can result in kids who lag behind their peers in problem solving. Coming to the realization that your marriage may be failing and all of that [...]

22 March 2013 0 Comments

Tips for achieving success when co-parenting

Share The divorce process is confusing and stressful for all families, but particularly so for families with young children. It is often difficult for newly separated parents to determine what kind of long-term parenting arrangement will be best for their children once each parent has established a separate household. In family law cases involving children, [...]

11 March 2013 0 Comments

Divorce & children

Share It is of no surprise that children have difficulty maintaining a good relationship with both parents after an emotional turmoil of separation. Experts in child abuse have noted a natural tendency of children to relate to adults, which makes them more vulnerable to abuse. Therefore, the rejection of a parent is simply the result [...]

4 March 2013 0 Comments

Child Custody & Modifying A Court Order

Share Children of divorced parents have it tough sometimes, and child custody can be the hardest part of a divorce case to mitigate. Emotions run high, and when one parent’s situation isn’t favorable to a child’s well-being, that parent can be separated from their children even when the bond between them is a very strong [...]

22 February 2013 0 Comments

Child support and emancipation

Share I have been asked if a parent has to keep paying child support if their child has been emancipated by the court. It is a parent’s obligation to support their child until the child is either emancipated or until the child reaches the age specified in a child support court order, usually 18 or [...]

10 January 2013 0 Comments

Divorce and children

Share Once upon a time, a typical outcome of a divorce case was that the mother, if she was a fit parent, got primary custody of the children while the father was granted visitation rights.  The father paid child support to the mother. Today, this is not always the case.  When it comes to a [...]