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…
Like most of you reading this blog, I woke up to probably the most upsetting entertainment news I can remember. After being found in his Northern California residence on August 11th, 2014, Robin Williams was pronounced dead by asphyxiation, almost…
Recently in the news, two twelve year old girls have been accused of stabbing their twelve year old friend, inspired by a fictional internet character called Slender Man. This story made national news not because the accused and victim were…
Getting married is a big freaking deal personally, socially, and legally. Do not go into it without knowing what you are doing.
I like to say that in the United States, everyone is a lawyer, or rather thinks they are. It is funny how laypersons are more comfortable giving legal advice than attorneys are (we know the consequences). For this reason, I…
There are two ways to end a marriage in the State of Ohio, dissolution and divorce. When performing intake with new potential clients, I usually ask if the person knows the distinction between a dissolution and divorce in Ohio. I…
This blog has reiterated several themes and maxims, and for this post I thought I would focus on perhaps the most important piece of advice I can give in the domestic relations context. There is absolutely no excuse for violence…
No uniform definition has yet been broadly accepted to define “high conflict divorce”(s), with the field of study almost taking a Potter Stuart “I know it when I see it” approach [see Stuart’s concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378…