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How to Decide What School Children Will Attend The Public vs. Private Debate Another school year is quickly approaching, if not already started for most children. With the ringing in of the 2012-2013 school year, conversations regarding children’s schooling and where children will attend school come to the forefront in domestic law cases. Where a child will attend school is…
Modifying Child Support with a Large Arrearage and Reinstatement of License to Drive Based On Law and Public Policy Through divorce or custody proceedings, a child support worksheet, which uses a complex formula, is produced in order to determine an appropriate child support amount to be paid. The child support worksheet uses gross weekly income and takes into account many…
In Part I of this blog post, two of the “mistakes” that often occur by nothing more than human nature in a custody evaluation were discussed: (1) trying to answer psychological testing in a favorable way, and (2) coaching children to a degree before a custody evaluation. It is important to be aware of these because they can occur…
One tool frequently used in a paternity or divorce, or post-paternity or divorce or custody modification, is requesting a custody/parenting time evaluation. An evaluation is helpful for many reasons. Globally, it is a tool used to allow a mental health professional to observe the parent-child relationship from a neutral, third-party position, and evaluate the family dynamic and make recommendations to…
The Bed Bugs Epidemic and What Parents Can Do About It In The Custody Context In the last several years, an old enemy to the American (and individuals and families across the world throughout history) family has re-emerged on epidemic proportions: the lowly bedbug. Any issue that impacts any large segment of our society will ultimately present itself in the…
Ensuring the Children’s Best Interests In many of our previous blog posts, we have explored the determination of a child being CHINS (a Child in Need of Services)1, TPR (Termination of a Parent’s Rights)2, and adoption3. Ultimately, all of these cases that involve where children are placed when the parents have legal issues impacting their ability to parent are governed…
What Is It? What Is Included? How Is It Divided Up? In Indiana, what property, assets, and liabilities the trial court is to divide is commonly referred to as the “marital pot”. In essence, everything the divorcing parties have is poured into a “pot” and the court divides this in a just and equitable manner. Specifically, a central determination to…
This blog will seek to explore the changing definitions and dimensions of “marriage” and how it may be expanded in the fairly near future. Voluminous amounts of information exist on this controversial topic, and this blog will only explore the tip of the iceberg. The changing tide of marriage today can be seen simply from a statistics standpoint. The number…
When child support is calculated, there are a number of factors that are included or excluded based on certain formulas and rules. For example, and common, in determining the amount of child support paid, parents get credit for subsequent children, health insurance payments for the child(ren), and the number of overnights they have the child(ren). However, there are often many…
As noted in other blogs by , as the dynamics of a family shift, so do the legal issues facing the family. Often, child care and financial support is given by grandparents or other family members if the biological parents are either unable or unwilling to raise their children. Biological parents may place the responsibility in the hands of others…