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Amnesty for Delinqent Child Support Payers

In Durham County, the Social Services department held a special amnesty day to give non-custodial parents a chance to stop running and hiding from the Child Support Enforcement Department and pay up. Social Services invited nearly two hundred people wanted for not paying their child support to the Durham County Court house. If they showed up and paid two hundred and fifty dollars, their arrest warrant for failure to pay child support would be terminated. …

Don’t Let Your Wedding Cause Your Divorce

Don’t Let Your Wedding Cause Your Divorce Don’t spend a fortune on a fairytale wedding if you want your marriage to have a fairytale ending. Couples that overspend on their wedding day are headed for a divorce, according to a leading family lawyer. The head of family law at Slater and Gordon, Amanda McAlister, says eighty percent of couples who divorce within five years say spending too much on the wedding was one of the …

Supervised Parenting Time and Reintegration Therapy Providers in Colorado

Supervised Parenting Time and Reintegration Therapy Providers in Colorado Sometimes a Court restricts a parent’s time with their children to supervised by a private third party. When this is Ordered a parent can be at a loss to know who provide supervision. Here are three of the providers in the Denver Metro area: SUPERVISION. Supervisionparenting.com. SuperVision provides In-Home Supervised Parenting and Off-Site Supervised Parenting. They also provide Reunification Therapy and Therapeutic Supervision Karlis Family Center …

Calculating Child Support When One Parent Does Not Have Income

How Do We Calculate Maintenance (Alimony) and Child Support When One Parent Has No Income? First know that both parents are legally responsible for supporting the kiddos—not just the parent who pays support. With a few exceptions, if one parent does not have income, the Court will impute full time income to that parent before calculating maintenance or support. In other words, will we assign income to that parent before calculating support and assume they …

Biggest Loser Contestants File for Divorce

Biggest Loser Contestants File for Divorce Biggest Loser contestants Sam Poueu and Stephanie Anderson are in the process of getting divorced only two months from the due date of the birth of their first child. Their announcement has a lot of their fans wondering “what the heck?: If a source close to the situation is to be believed, the reason is not a good one. Thirty-three-year-old Stephanie felt the couple was not connecting and sought …

POTUS Encouraging Fatherhood

Encouraging Fatherhood “And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low- income couples and do more to encourage fatherhood, because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child, it’s having the courage to raise one. And we want to encourage that. We want to help that. “ Barack Obama President of the United States of America State of the Union Address

Athletes Lose Big In Their Divorces

Lifestyles of the rich and famous aren’t always so glamorous. It turns out there’s a lot of truth to the saying, “more money, more problems.” Here are a few stories of players who scored big in the game, but lost big at home. San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan is the middle of a nasty divorce battle with Amy Duncan, his wife of twelve years. Thirty-seven-year- old Tim reportedly hired a private investigator to look …

Divorce Dos and Don’ts

Are you and your spouse considering filing for divorce? The divorce process can be chaotic and stressful at times, especially when you are unsure of what to do. If divorce is not handled properly, then it is not uncommon for people to act rash due to heightened emotions. In order to avoid and ugly and contentious divorce, it is important to be prepared and to know what the divorce dos and don’ts. It is also vital …

Changes to How Maintenance and Child Support is Determined

Changes to How Maintenance and Child Support is Determined There are significant changes taking place in Family Law cases including maintenance (alimony), child support and civil unions. The Colorado Legislature was very busy during their last session modifying many areas that affect your divorce case and child support issues. Many more cases will compel the Court to use a formula for determining maintenance when maintenance is awarded including the monthly amount and the length of …

Japan is Joining Child Custody Treaty

Japan is joining an international treaty to help resolve cross border child custody disputes. It could happen by the end of this year since it has already been approved by parliament. The 1980 Hague Convention governing the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction outlines rules and procedures regarding the custody of children, under the age of 16 years old, whose parents reside in different countries. There are currently 89 members of this treaty. A bill …

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