The case of a South Carolina woman with a profound disability shows us just how difficult it could be to balance parental interests with the best interests of the children in child custody disputes after a life-changing event. 34-year-old Abbie D. and her ex-husband...
An Idaho woman who has won about $90 million in the Mega Millions lottery has just learned that she may be forced to share her winnings with her abusive estranged husband from whom she has been separated for years. The couple separated but has never filed for divorce,...
If you're not divorced with children, you probably think of a child support dispute as one of two situations: where the parents are in the middle of a divorce and can't agree on how much child support should be paid, or where one parent isn't making their child...
A child support case involving an unemployed father from Rome, Georgia, is putting a spotlight on a very important question: What is the most effective way for our society to ensure that child support gets paid in a timely fashion to the children who need it?...
When parents are married and one becomes unemployed, the family scrimps and saves, cuts back on things and works through the tough economic period. When a divorced or unmarried parent loses a job, it can have serious legal repercussions. That's because unmarried...
What is the most important factor to consider when deciding whether to divorce? Your partner's emotional health, the good of your children, the institution of marriage itself? What about money? A UK government body recently set up an interactive online calculator to...
On any given day, 500 Georgia parents face incarceration for failing to pay child support. They are usually jailed on civil contempt charges and are not given an attorney to represent them. One such Georgia father is challenging the legal basis for incarcerating...
Sources have reported that NeNe Leakes, one of the stars of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is moving forward with divorcing her husband of 14 years. A recent report from RadarOnline said that Leakes had hired a divorce attorney. Leakes' husband is seeking hundreds of...
Lisa Clark Gonzalez, the Gainesville woman sent to prison for having sex with and then marrying her son's then-15-year-old friend Adrian Gonzalez, may be one step closer to getting shared child custody rights over the couple's 4-year-old son. The Gonzalezes have been...
Frank and Jamie McCourt, the joint owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers have been involved in a nasty high-asset divorce since Jamie was fired as CEO of the Dodgers in October 2009 and filed for divorce that same month. So far, the estranged couple has spent an estimated...