Sep 22, 2013 | Family Law
My job as a family law attorney is to try to help people get through the worst time in their lives. Their most personal relationship is crumbling – the one they thought would last forever. They are afraid for their children. They are forced to divide assets that...
Aug 12, 2013 | Decisionmaking & Parenting Time
I have written several times over the past year about the Baby Veronica case. As an infant, little Veronica was given up for adoption by her birth mother after it appeared that the father had abandoned her. However, the father. who was part Native American, later...
Jul 14, 2013 | Family Law
Working mothers. Stay-at-home dads. Gay marriage. Single-parent adoption. Interracial marriage. Interfaith marriage. Blended families . . . Our world, and the very concept of “Family,” is changing in ways that our grandparents never could have...
Jun 16, 2013 | Family Law
Today is Father’s Day. So, here is a story about a father. Someone who loves his children, just like you love your children. Someone who wakes up every day and works hard to be a better dad, just like you do . . . Dwayne Wade is a basketball legend. He’s a fierce...
Jun 13, 2013 | Cohabitation & Domestic Partnership
Couples moving in and living together, outside of marriage, was once frowned upon in our society. Now it is commonplace, and the stigma is long gone. For some, cohabitation is a stepping-stone to marriage. For others, it is an alternative to marriage. The Center for...