Family Law

Practical and value-driven advice to resolve your business disputes.

Cohabitation agreements
Separation agreements
Family law litigation

Divorce is extremely difficult for all parties involved due to emotion of an ended relationship, worries about children, and the stress of the court procedures. We understand the hardship and, while we cannot assist you with emotional issues, we will do our best to navigate and help you with all legal aspects of this uneasy process.

Litigation is emotionally and financially draining.
We encourage our clients to have a dialogue with the other side and try to negotiate and mediate issues as oppose to rushing to the court.
However, we are ready to use this avenue when necessary and help you in each and every step of this disturbing process.

Moving Out

Make sure you speak to your lawyer prior to vacating your matrimonial home.

Support

Child support is money that a parent pays to help support his or her child financially after a separation or divorce. Child support is generally paid to the other parent, not to the child. Judges can order a parent to pay support directly to a child over the age of majority, but they only do so in certain cases. Judges consider the family’s situation to determine the appropriate arrangements.

Spousal Support is money paid by one spouse to the other after they separate or divorce. It is sometimes called alimony or maintenance. Many factors may affect whether a married or common-law spouse is entitled to spousal support and how much support they should receive.

Custody

“Custody” essentially refers to the parent’s right to make decisions for the child, as well as the parent’s obligations to that child. There are few ways you can have custody arrangements for your children:

“Joint custody” means that each of the parents shares custody of the child. Joint custody can be legal where all decisions are shares and physical when each parent spends at least 40 percent of time with the children.
“Sole custody” means that one parent has custody of the children. The children live with that parent. The other parent may or may not have access or rights to visitation.
“Split custody” means that one parent has custody of some of the children, while the other parent has custody of the other children. This scenario might occur when teens or pre-teens choose to live with the parent of their choice.

Be careful with changing the de facto custody arrangement without explicit written agreement in place. Speak to your lawyer about potential consequences.