Family Law
When it comes to divorce, visitation, custody and financial considerations, it’s important to have an experienced, established family lawyer in your corner.
These are complex laws with long-lasting implications for you, your children and your family as a whole. It’s important to know your rights, understand your obligations and ensure lasting solutions that protect your family’s welfare and best interests.
Contact us now to discuss your case and to understand your rights.
You need a trusted family law team
Divorce and other major personal upheavals happen -- and when they do, you need a trusted team of family law experts to help guide you to a positive outcome. Whether it’s dividing assets, establishing paternity, determining custody and visitation or working through the lifelong implications that come with these agreements, you deserve to know your rights -- and, from there, to develop concrete next steps that best serve your family.
Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
To avoid potential roadblocks in the future, many couples opt to outline terms before their marriage or, even, after they’ve been married. These prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements can protect both spouses and their personal and financial interests in the event of a divorce.
Mediation
Working with a third-party mediator, many couples can work through their divorce terms without hefty legal fees -- or court time. Often couples start here, no matter where their divorce process ultimately leads.
Paternity Law
From establishing paternity to exercising your custody and visitation rights to determining child support, paternity law has many unique facets -- and is critical to ensuring a positive post-divorce outcome.
Visitation
No matter the custody structure, all parents are entitled to visitation with minor children. These -- along with custody terms -- are established during your divorce proceedings and are meant to keep both parents in the child(ren)’s lives, regardless of the terms of the separation.
Child support
When minor children are involved in a divorce, both sides are financially responsible for their well-being and for all expenses associated. In many cases, establishing this foundation requires child support payments from the higher-earning or non-custodial parent.
Spousal support
Depending on you and your spouse’s work history and current income, the court may award spousal support to the lower-earner. This may be a short-term “rehabilitation” payment structure or may be long-term based on the length of the marriage and income differences.
Property distribution
When you divorce, you’re entitled to a portion of your shared assets, including property, possessions and finances. Whether it’s liquidating and dividing everything evenly or working out custom agreements, there are many ways to strike this critical balance so both sides can move forward with their lives.
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