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When the court finalizes your divorce, one of the main factors you will need to follow is your court order for custody and child support. However, these orders are not necessarily permanent. Depending on your family’s needs, you may eventually need to request an...
When parents no longer share a household, time with your child often becomes the hardest issue to sort out. In Connecticut, visitation schedules do not follow a fixed chart or formula. Judges focus on how a proposed schedule fits into a child’s daily life, especially...
You see your former spouse getting married again, and you naturally wonder if this ends your financial obligations. Many people assume support payments stop the moment a new marriage begins. While this is often true, the law is not always that simple. The termination...
Losing time with your grandchild can feel like losing part of your family. In Connecticut, you can ask the court for visitation when you prove that cutting off contact harms your grandchild’s well-being. Here’s what you should know about how the process works and what...
For many homemakers, divorce can feel like stepping into a financial quicksand. You may have spent decades maintaining your home, raising children and supporting your spouse’s career. Now that you are facing the dissolution of your marriage, the questions pile up. How...
After you have gone through all the work of going through coming up with a parenting plan with your ex, it's understandable if you want to keep everything stable and stay away from legal issues for as long as you can. But that isn't always possible. Your kid's needs...
It doesn’t take much for a custody dispute to quickly become heated. But even when conflict arises, you have to remain focused on your child’s best interests. After all, that’s the legal standard that the court will use to determine what sort of custody and visitation...
No one gets married with the plan to be divorced one day. You may believe that you do not need a prenuptial agreement or view a prenuptial agreement as a sign that you are giving up on your marriage before it gets started. This is not true. A prenuptial agreement is...
The path forward might seem unclear when you realize your marriage needs to end. While divorce represents the most common choice, you do have options available. Aside from expedited or nonadversarial divorce and legal separation, there is also annulment. Many people...
As a parent, you find yourself making basic and important decisions for your children on a yearly, monthly and daily basis. While much of this is routine, other decisions could make a big impact on your child’s upbringing, making it imperative that both parents are on...