Family & Divorce

July 7, 2020

If an unmarried father wants to preserve his rights to a child that he may have fathered, it is important for him to register with the Responsible Father Registry as soon as possible. As of the date of this blog post, a father may register at the following address: South Carolina Responsible Fathers Registry The statute provides that “any claim of paternity filed with the registry is null and void if it is filed on…

Kogut & Wilson Blog

A Better Understanding of Divorce Options

By Kogut & Wilson team

July 7, 2020

When a marriage is not working, many wonder what their divorce options are. There are multiple approaches to divorce, and our attorneys have years of experience with each method. To get a basic understanding of each approach and to determine what works best for your specific situation, below is a summary of the three most popular methods: Litigation Litigation is the most common and well-known route to divorce. In a litigation matter, either both…

Tennessee Family Law Blog

Husband Stuck w/ Divorce Settlement After Alleging Ill Health

By Miles Mason

July 7, 2020

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Tennessee case summary on seeking to get out of an agreed upon settlement. Troy Michael Wheeler v. Angela Marie (Turner) Wheeler In 2018, the wife in this Macon County, Tennessee, case filed for divorce after a marriage of more than ten years. Before the trial began, their attorneys announced to the court that they had signed a marital dissolution agreement. The agreement called for the husband to pay the wife $250,000 within 60 days, followed…

Hello Divorce Blog

What It’s Like Being the Kid of Parents Who Divorced Well

By Erin Levine

July 6, 2020

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It’s not surprising that divorce can take a psychological toll on children. It’s a big, scary unknown for everyone involved and many kids struggle with feelings of anxiety, distress, anger, fear, and disbelief, especially in the beginning. It can be really tough for them to process these emotions as well as adjust to changes to daily routines and new living arrangements. Divorce basically rocks the world they’ve counted on every day. But kids are also…

Private Client

Provenance in the Art Market – Is Blockchain the Way Forward?

By Manisha Kumar & Kunal Gopal

July 6, 2020

Provenance, simply put, means the history of the whereabouts of an artwork from the day it was created by the artist to the present. While provenance is generally intended to be a ‘chain of title’ that includes every owner of the work since its creation, in practice, it typically tends to merely include a listing of some interesting facts concerning the background of the work, such as notable former owners and exhibition of the work…

Ontario Family Law Blog

More Zoom, please!

By Lynn Kirwin

July 6, 2020

Family and friends happy moments in video conference at home

PDF format, sync.com, Zoom, email, screen-sharing, host, co-host, muted, video feed. These words are now part of the parlance of the new and improved court system…at least in some Ontario jurisdictions. However, in other Ontario jurisdictions, Jurassic park is still alive and well and unfortunately for the people that we, the legal profession serve, dinosaur judges still rule the planet in those jurisdictions. Just prior to the strike of Covid19, permission to attend by teleconference,…

Divorce: New York

Drafting Income Calculations in Divorce Settlement Agreements

By Neil Cahn

July 6, 2020

The parties’ 2013 divorce stipulation of settlement provided that child support for their two children would be adjusted annually. Beginning May 1, 2014: “the parties shall set by April 30, a payment schedule of the Parent’s total obligation for base child support ‘made pursuant to the formula set forth below and income caps for the fiscal year beginning May 1 and continuing through April 30th of the following year. This schedule shall be based on…

Virgin Islands Law Blog

U.S. Virgin Islands Should Adopt “Reasonable” Standard for Foreseeability for Negligence Claims

By A. Jennings Stone

July 6, 2020

In the vast majority of personal injury cases, the determination of who was at fault in the incident comes down to determining who was negligent in the situation. The general standard used in these cases in most parts of the United States is that negligence is the failure to use a “reasonable” amount of care required for that particular situation. To be able to prove someone was negligent, you must be able to identify that…

Herston on Tennessee Family Law

Criminal Contempt for Failure to Exchange Child Affirmed in Nashville, Tennessee: In re Khrystchan D.

By K.O. Herston

July 6, 2020

What are the elements of criminal contempt in Tennessee?…

Tennessee Family Law Blog

Change of Circumstances Agreed But Not Stipulated by Parents

By Miles Mason

July 6, 2020

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Tennessee child custody modification case summary. The mother and father in this case were divorced in 2014. They were the parents of one child, who was born in 2007. At the time of their divorce, the trial court of Shelby County, Tennessee, entered a permanent parenting plan naming the mother as the primary residential parent. The mother received 205 days of parenting time, and the father, 160 days. Both parents had joint decision-making responsibilities. In…