Child custody questions answered

Child custody questions answered

How does a court decide custody? When the court decides custody, they look at what’s best for the child. There are a number of factors that the court looks at specifically, including the stability of the child’s environment and whether each parent is...
Effect of Domestic Violence Accusations

Effect of Domestic Violence Accusations

Mere allegations of domestic violence can be devastating to your career and future earning ability. It does not matter if it has any basis in truth at all, a domestic violence accusation on its own can cause you to lose your job, your security clearance, and your...
What is Domestic Violence?

What is Domestic Violence?

Domestic violence (DV) is generally associated with assault or reckless endangerment, stalking, violating an existing protective order, sexual offenses, kidnapping, terroristic threatening, arson, burglary, robbery, extortion or coercion and custodial interference. ...
Division of Property – Who Gets the House?

Division of Property – Who Gets the House?

How does the court decide who gets what property and which debt? Courts try to divide property and debt based upon what is fair and equitable. This is the subject of much argument and litigation. The baseline case for the factors that a court uses to divide property...