Facts: Grandparents obtained custody of Father’s two children in September 2021 after the Department of Children’s Services intervened because of concerns about Father’s substance abuse and parenting. Mother surrendered her parental rights, leaving Father as the only parent contesting termination.
Facts: Mother and Father lost custody of their eighteen-month-old son in February 2022 after a domestic violence incident led to both parents’ arrest. With both parents incarcerated and without stable housing, the juvenile court declared Child dependent and neglected and
Most of us don’t remember sitting down for a formal lesson on money as kids. What we remember instead is how money felt in our homes. Was it calm? Stressful? Something adults argued about behind closed doors?
When parents divorce,
Facts: Mother experienced childhood trauma that led to drug use by age sixteen. After an overdose in 2018, she joined the United States Army. She met Father in 2019, and they married shortly thereafter. Child was born later that year.
Facts: Father and Mother are unmarried parents who have been litigating custody and parenting-time issues for years.
Under a 2018 order, Mother relocated about 300 miles from Father’s home in Memphis to Jacksonville, Alabama. Father exercised parenting time on the
Facts: Husband and Wife divorced after a 16-year marriage. They had three children, ages 14, 12, and 10.
Husband worked as a business manager for a masonry company. He consistently earned much more than Wife. Wife was primarily a stay-at-home
Facts: Child lived with Mother until mid-June 2024, when Child was removed from Mother’s custody by court order and temporary custody was awarded to Petitioner, a prospective adoptive parent. Child was then three years old.
Mother visited Child once after
At long last, here is the post that draws the most attention each year: the “Legislative Update” post.
Longtime readers of this 16-year-old (!!!) blog will recall my longstanding advice to pause, draw the blinds, put on some relaxing music,
I recently read a Wall Street Journal article titled “Inside the ‘Financial Infidelities’ That Tear Marriages Apart,” which opened with a line that hit home:
“It has never been easier to conceal unsavory spending from a spouse. Divorce and significant
Facts: Father and Mother had two Children. Mother died in 2023. While Mother was ill and nearing the end of her life, Father voluntarily relinquished custody of the Children to Aunt and Uncle, who moved the Children from Colorado to
