Counseling a client who is contemplating separation or divorce, or even “maybe thinking” about one, is among the most sensitive tasks family law attorneys face, and it draws as much on our counseling skill-set as it does on our lawyering.
Family Law Guy
Family Law Guy, published by Richard Gould-Saltman, focuses on various aspects of family law including divorce, separation, child custody, and parental rights. The blog addresses sensitive issues such as mental health, substance abuse, and relocation in the context of family law cases. It also covers emerging topics like vaccination disputes between parents and pet custody in domestic violence situations. The content is aimed at providing practical advice and guidance for family law practitioners and trusted advisors dealing with complex family dynamics and legal challenges.
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How Do I Refer…? II. A Client With Alcohol/Drug/Significant Mental Health Issues?
Mental illness, drugs and alcohol. They are the fodder of the divorce tabloids, and a source of anxiety for clients with family law issues who also are struggling with these problems. Family law clients, particularly parents, fear a public parading…
"How Do I Refer….?" I: Re-Locating Parents
Ten Posts directed to trusted advisors, addressing issues of referring “clients with issues”, to whom G.S.L.O. can provide ingenuity and practicality in advice and assistance:
I of X:
HOW DO I REFER A PARENT WHO WANTS TO RELOCATE WITH…
Vaccination and Parents' Rights: Who Decides?
Courts are being asked to decide vaccination issues between disagreeing parents in child custody cases . These disagreements are catching the public’s eye and ears in the wake of the Disneyland measles outbreak, and the public opposition to mandatory vaccination…
Pet Custody? What's The Standard?
Recent changes in the California version of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act now permit a judge making a restraining order, to make an order for “… the exclusive care, possession, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or…
Spend More Time talking About The Relationship, and Less Money on the Ring, the Wedding (and the Divorce?)
An Emory University study suggests that there is an inverse correlation between the amount a couple spends on the engagement ring and the wedding, and the chance that the marriage will last. I have my own theories about why this…
"Conscious Coupling" What Is Marriage Supposed To Do? Does It Still Do It?
One of the recurring themes of this blog has been “Why do people get married? What will help then accomplish whatever it is they want to accomplish by marrying?”
It appears that the number of Americans, over-all, who believe that…
Gambling Winnings and Child Support
Ohio has now implemented an intercept program so that winners at the four casinos in Ohio may trigger data base checks. If the winner wins $1,200 or more from slot machines, $5,000 or more from table games or $600…
Exercising Self-Help in Custody Cases
Kathleen Aubain is in the Oneida County Jail in New York for violating a court order. Aubain has a two and a half year old daughter, Isabellah Rose Campos with Eric Campos. All three were living in Arizona. Campos…
Child Custody And Religion (Again): What Should Happen When One Parent Converts?
We’ve got another child custody and religion case from New York, about, at least ostensibly, what should happen when one parent, but not the other, decides to “change horses mid-stream” in terms of the child’s religious upbringing.
A closer reading…