Child Support Laws and the History
Child Support Child support can be traced back to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the young ages of the nineteenth century, the United States courts that handled cases of marital breakdowns and divorce, discovered that the present laws did not provide for a support action. The United States had inherited many of [...]
Child Support and Shared Custody
Decisions regarding child support and shared custody are beginning to favor joint custody over sole custody. The courts’ recent disposition stems from the belief that children benefit more when parents share the responsibility of rearing them, and their welfare should be the major factor under consideration. As far as available resources for children of divorce, [...]
Massachusetts Heating Laws – What Are Your Rights As a Tenant?
In case you haven’t been outside for the past couple of weeks, we’re here to let you know it’s been getting colder out there. Of course, that brings up a handful of issues, the least of which is how nice you look in you’re winter coat. We’ve heard all sorts of questions about Massachusetts heating [...]
Family Law
Attorneys and lawyers practicing family law take up cases relating to all kinds of family related issues. These can be adoption, prenuptial agreements, marriage, divorce, separation, legal separation, annulment, alimony, division of the property accumulated during the marriage, domestic violence, negotiation, adjudication, child custody and support, child abduction, kidnapping or child seizure, emancipation, abuse in [...]
Fathers Child Custody Rights
A father’s role in a child’s life is one of the most influential factors in that child’s life. If you are like thousands of other fathers in the world you may be in the situation where your significant other is trying to take your child away from you. This is not the best option for [...]
Legal Guardianship
A guardian is a person who is responsible for the care and welfare of another person. In the case of children, legal guardianship is automatically given to the parents at birth; however, if the parents are deceased or found unfit to care for their child, guardianship is given to another person. Besides parents, there are [...]
Child Support Payments
The custodial parent has a very big responsibility, and burden whenever some modification and changed circumstances takes place he/she will be the one to find ways how to cope with the standard of living and expenses of the child until he/she resorted to palliative solutions such as to sell child support payments that will also [...]
Divorce and Custody – Are You Guilty of Parental Alienation?
Did you know that some form of Parental Alienation exists in every contested divorce or custody action? Most parents, when asserting their custody rights, claim that they would never alienate the other parent from their children. They know that Parental Alienation can cause permanent emotional harm to their children and profess that they would never [...]