A question I get fairly often is: “If I die can I designate someone other than the biological parent to care for my child”. The short answer: Yes, but it probably won’t matter. The long answer: When creating your Last…
A question was recently posed to me regarding a parent’s ability to force the other parent to have visitation with his or her child. You generally cannot force the other parent to exercise his or her visitation if you have…
The holidays are here! Can you believe it? For divorced/living separate families, this time of the year can present a whole host of new challenges and anxieties.
Can my child choose who has custody in a Ohio Divorce?
As trivial as this topic may seem, clothing as it relates to your kids in a divorce or custody scenario can be a big deal and cause a lot of conflict. I’ve witnessed people handle clothing sharing many different ways…
The weather outside just dropped from an incredibly comfortable fall cool to a damp and nasty chill in about two hours, and shows no signs of going back. You know what that means. It must be holiday season. Soon stores…
“I don’t want my son to grow up thinking it is okay to be late. What does that kinda stuff say to him!?” This is a non-exact quote that a mother involved in a custody dispute told me to justify…
A lot of buzz has been going around about the Supreme Court allowing gay marriage in most states. First, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) did not rule gay marriage was legal in the United States. Below is…
A Guardian ad Litem (commonly referred to by its acronym GAL) is a person, usually an attorney, appointed by a court to represent a person of diminished capacity’s (usually a child) best interests in a legal proceeding. “ad Litem” is…
In 2012 the Ohio legislature passed the Ohio Collaborative Family Law Act. Collaborative divorce had existed in Ohio prior to the statute, but the Act has been useful in specifically creating and allowing collaborative divorces in Ohio, specifying how they…