One of the legal protections that a domestic violence victim may be able to pursue is a protective order. Such orders can put restrictions on the perpetrator of a domestic abuse incident, such as restrictions from coming into contact with the victim or the victim's...
What a given state's family law policies are regarding same-sex couples can have a wide range of impacts.Such policies, obviously, can have major effects on individual same-sex couples in a state. For example, what position the state a same-sex couple lives in takes...
The end of a marriage doesn't necessarily stop all transactions or lines of communication between the ex-spouses. Divorced parents, for example, have to coordinate child custody matters and handle issues such as child support. Another post-divorce obligation is...
Many people probably think of prenuptial agreements as documents that just deal with asset division. However, there are actually a great number of different things such agreements can regard. The list of terms prenuptial agreements sometimes include is quite long, and...
There are many different things that could raise a divorced parent's concerns when it comes to the well-being of their children, including the environment and people their children are or are likely to be exposed to when with the ex-spouse. Sometimes, concerns over...
Domestic violence can rather quickly escalate to horrifying proportions. It sometimes even costs victims their lives. Here in North Texas, several people have lost their lives to domestic abuse this year.According to the Dallas Morning News, in the four-county-area...
There has been a great deal of change lately here in America when it comes to how the law treats same-sex couples. Several states have legalized same-sex marriages and have made other family law mechanisms that have traditionally only been available to opposite-sex...
The horrible effects of spousal abuse can be wide-reaching. Not only can spousal abuse severely hurt the victim, it also can have major negative impacts on a couple's children. Witnessing an act of spousal abuse can be incredibly traumatic to a child, causing great...
One thing that authorities sometimes use in child support enforcement is jail time. Most people know that being delinquent on child support payments can lead to a person facing time in jail. What many may not know is that, here in Texas, a person who was delinquent on...
A same-sex couple is currently in something of a legal limbo in their fight to be legally recognized as the parents of infant twins.The couple consists of two men from Texas. The two got married in Washington D.C. last year. Of course, given Texas' same-sex marriage...
