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
Facts: Mother and Father were never married and lived in different cities when Child was conceived in 2015. Mother quickly decided to place Child for adoption with Guardians, but Father objected from the beginning and sought custody. Father took the
Facts: Husband admitted to having an affair with Paramour during the marriage. Suspicious of Husband’s activities, Wife bought a hidden “nanny cam” disguised as a phone charger and left it plugged into the kitchen outlet in the marital home while
