When a case is commenced in court, whether it is a divorce case, a child support case, or any other sort of family law related case, unless you agree to “waive” being served, you will be served a Summons. The Summons commands you to “appear” at a specific place, by a certain date after you
Continue Reading »When you have an obligation to pay child support, what is income for the purpose of calculating the total amount owed? For the purposes of determining child support, the court need to calculate what the net income of a payor is, not the gross income. Net income is the “total of all income from all
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Some of the items that divorcing parties become the most concerned about during their divorce are items that we classify as “personal property”. We classify electronics, such as televisions, Blu-ray players, Blu-ray collects, MP3 players, etc., as “personal property”. We also classify other things as personal property that surprise a lot of divorcing parties. For
Continue Reading »I think the main question here is whether or not the court has the authority to decide the issue because there has not been a settlement agreement binding the parties and there is no final determination of the issue between the parties. Also, as I have discussed in my previous blog postings, is it too
Continue Reading »Continuing a further discussion from the last two blog posts that I have written, I want to touch base on another scenario regarding college expenses and your obligation to pay them on behalf of your children. Last time we discussed what it means to have what is called Section 513 expenses reserved in the Judgment
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I was watching a television show over the weekend that depicted a family where the parties, who were divorcing, had two minor children. The mother told the father that she was going to “sue him for sole custody” and that he would “never see his children again” because he had come into some hard times
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