Posted: September 3, 2010 in Family Law
Having a baby is an exciting, life-changing event — and legal matters are probably the last thing on your mind.
However, it’s important for you to get familiar with parents’ legal rights for the safety and well-being of your expanding family.
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Posted: August 30, 2010 in Family Law
If your marriage isn’t working out, there are two ways to dissolve it — annulment or divorce.
While they are both legal ways to end a marriage, annulment and divorce have different outcomes in the eye of the law. Annulment or divorce: How are they different?
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Posted: August 23, 2010 in Family Law
When two partners share a life together but aren’t joined together by marriage, they are involved in a domestic partnership.
Domestic partnership agreements — in the states and countries where they are legal — allow partners to gain many of the same rights as married couples.
Posted: August 20, 2010 in Family Law
It’s important for unmarried parents to know their legal rights, as many US states have custody laws in place that depend on the marital status of the parents.
While parental rights vary from state to state, unmarried parents generally have fewer rights than married couples.
Posted: August, 2010 in Family Law
If you live with your significant other or even just a roommate for seven years, have you entered into a common-law marriage?
The truth is that common-law marriages are not that common. No one can unknowingly enter into a common-law marriage, and many other requirements must be met.
Posted: July, 2010 in Family Law
When a relationship ends, others beyond the couple are often affected by the split. Child custody battles can be heated, but these days courts are seeing more of a different kind of custody battle — a battle for pet custody.
How does a court handle a pet custody case? How should you prepare if you want to argue for pet custody rights?
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Posted: June, 2010 in Family Law
Most people know that to get married, you have to get a license first. But how do you obtain a marriage license? Are there any other legal requirements to be completed before a marriage is valid?
The legal requirements to perform a marriage ceremony differ from state to state and certainly from country to country. Read on for some common legal marriage requirements!
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Posted: June, 2010 in Family Law
Millions of Americans live or spend time abroad without relinquishing US citizenship. But what happens if a child is born abroad, and one or both parents are US citizens?
While a child born abroad to US citizen parents is a US citizen in most cases, there are confusing rules regarding how US citizenship is obtained.
Posted: June, 2010 in Family Law
When parents split up, it’s often difficult to determine child custody. This is especially true when one parent relocates to a different city or state.
When a parent relocates to a completely different country after a divorce, however, child custody becomes an extremely complex situation.
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Posted: June, 2010 in Family Law
The divorce process has become a familiar one to many Americans, whether it is because of their own experiences or simply from following the dramatic number of high-profile celebrity divorces.
But all this exposure to divorce doesn’t mean people are automatically experts at what to expect during a divorce. What does the divorce process entail?
