The legal process is tough to understand and even harder to wait for. If you are filing for divorce for the first time, you are probably nervous and have a lot of questions. To that end, I wanted to write a post on questions that I have been commonly asked by many of my clients.…
In the fields of family law or divorce law, legal definitions and terms can have important meanings. Your family law lawyer may even say them to you without thinking about the fact that you might not understand them. I know I’ve spoken to clients too quickly and I have used legal terms that they probably…
This post is more for the lawyers. However, it is important that people understand what their family law lawyers are doing. I know, most of my clients have taken very little interest in how the law actually works. They would rather the lawyer do the work and help them with their situation: be it a…
I realize that the title of this post is a bit odd. However, as a lawyer, knowing when the actual divorce or “dissolution of marriage” case has been started is very important. Why? Because a divorce case can’t go forward in the court system unless it has been started correctly. So, when is a divorce…
As a lawyer, I often look at a particular state’s laws and read the definitions of the words I am researching. I have to know the word-by-word definitions of many legal terms and, at times, it can be very confusing. Imagine what non-lawyers feel like when they are trying to understand the law. I would…
Although the law varies from state-to-state, there is a certain period of time in which a person who is served with divorce paperwork must submit their own “Answer” or risk being defaulted by the court. As divorce lawyers will tell you, filing an Answer is a very important step in defending your rights in any…
A divorce is a different legal proceedings than a legal separation. This is true in every state in the United States. A divorce has its own set of laws which govern how it proceeds through the legal system. The same goes for a legal separation. Put simply, a legal separation is just what it sounds…
As I discussed in my prior post, the legal concept of “serving process” on the opposing party in a divorce is a very big deal. In my prior post, I discussed service of process by the opposing party acknowledging that they were served, signing a pre-approved form, and then sending the form back to the…
