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  • Child Support Guidelines

    If you are getting divorce, and you and your spouse have children, chances are one of you will need to pay child support. Below we outline what child support is, how it is usually decided upon, and what kinds of issues can arise. Child Support Child support is defined as a monthly payment that parents (either one or both) make to help cover the costs associated with raising a child. In child ...
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  • Who's Not Paying Child Support?

    Despite the fact that child support payments are legally required to be paid, it seems that a number of parents are simply not making those payments. Below we discuss child support, how it is determined, and why you should work with a divorce attorney to ensure that you receive payments that are owed to you. Who’s Not Paying Child Support? Earlier this year, the U.S. Census Bureau released the ...
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  • Making Money Work After the End of Your Marriage

    There are many reasons that marriages come to an end: infidelity, financial issues, a matter of growing apart. If you were able to achieve strong financial footing during your marriage, don’t let the end of your marriage be the end of that solid financial standing. If money matters are a big part of why you couldn’t make it work, then perhaps take this end as a new beginning towards getting onto ...
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  • Taking Care of Your Credit After Divorce

    When Todd and his wife Mary decided to get divorced, their marriage had already been struggling for years. He worked too much, she didn’t work and the time spent being apart had bred resentment and anger. Their divorce settlement would not be arrived at without bitterness and anger. The Marriage Todd and Mary had met right out of college through mutual friends. They actually weren’t really ...
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  • Sherri Shepherd To Pay Child Support

    It seemed Sherri Shepherd’s divorce was finally settled, but now a Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld a surrogacy contract that says the television personality must pay child support for a child born to a surrogate mother. Sherri Shepherd To Pay Child Support The former The View host has been deemed legally responsible for a child born to a surrogate she and ex-husband Lamar Sally hired before ...
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  • Learning to Co-Parent

    What is co-parenting and how can you do it effectively? When two people decide it’s time to end their marriage, it’s often the child or the children they share that take it the hardest. When it comes to learning how to co-parent, division of assets, and determining alimony can seem like cake. Co-parenting is completely new terrain, and you might need to do a little research and soul-searching to ...
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  • Divorce for International Couples

    A bird may love a fish, but where will they live? And where will they divorce? As more and more businesses look towards globalization, marriage has began to look more towards internationalization. It’s no longer uncommon for working individuals to travel to a foreign land and fall in love, and marry a foreign spouse. The international couple must decide where to live, where to love, and where to ...
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  • Paternity and Child Custody

    Are there paternity issues brewing for Chris Brown? It recently came out that Chris Brown is the father to a 10-month-old baby girl Royalty. While he seems to be embracing his role as father (as documented via Instagram and other social media outlets) it seems that Royalty’s mother’s boyfriend is trying to prevent the singer from embracing his “father” role at all. Birth Certificate Battle ...
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  • Terrell Suggs Divorce and Accusations of Adultery

    Terrell Suggs, is not only facing divorce, but also accusations of adultery. Wife Seeking Divorce Candace Suggs, wife of the Baltimore Ravens linebacker has filed for divorce. The two have been married for two years and have two children aged 6 and 7. Full Custody Candance is seeking full custody of the two children in addition to child support and alimony. The divorce petition she filed in ...
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  • Misconceptions Regarding Divorce and Child Custody

    Sometimes, especially when under the stress of recovering from divorce or a child custody dispute, people feel their own sense of right and wrong is fair. But often what seems fair is not permissible under the California Family Code. Before you take any course of action, you might want to discuss things with experienced divorce attorney. Here’s a list of common misconceptions that can have ...
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  • Renner's Ex-Wife Seeking Child Custody and Support

    Jeremy Renner’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Sonni Pacheco is requesting primary child custody, in addition to child support and for her lawyers’ fees to be paid by her estranged husband. Divorce Filing and Child Custody Renner, 44, and Pacheco, 26, have been married for less than two years. Pacheco, a model and actress, filed for divorce in early December 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. She’s ...
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  • Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs Divorced

    Though Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs have been separated for a year, the two actors have just finalized their divorce. December 2013 Split Menzel and Diggs met during the original Broadway production of “Rent” in 1996. But after ten years of marriage, the couple decided to legally separate in December of 2013. A year later, it looks like the couple has quietly finalized their divorce. Diggs filed a ...
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  • Giada Divorces Husband

    Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is divorcing from fashion designer Todd Thompson, her husband of 11 years. The two married in May 2003. They have one daughter together, Jade Marie 6. Divorce Announcement “After an amicable separation since July, Todd and I have decided to end our marriage,” De Laurentiis,44, wrote on her Facebook page. “Although our decision to separate comes with a great deal ...
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  • Chris Rock's Divorce

    After more than 18 years of marriage, Chris Rock and Malaak Compton-Rock are getting divorced. The couple has experienced not only his rise to stardom, but also the births of their two daughters, Lola Simone, 12, and Zahra Savannah, 10. The Couple The couple met in 1994 when Rock, 49, crashed an awards show. They were married just two years later, on Nov. 23, 1996. “She’s changed me,” Rock told ...
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  • Alimony and Taxes v. Child Support and Taxes

    There’s a basic tax law that can often be passed over, ignored, or misinterpreted, if you’re in the midst of an emotional divorce. Regardless of how intense or difficult your divorce is though, you will need to keep this in mind: Alimony payments are tax deductible. Child support payments are not tax deductible. Additionally, alimony payments are taxable to the recipient. Amounts paid for child ...
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  • Cannon - Carey Making Family Number One

    Despite the couple’s separation, Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey are planning on making family “the number one priority” this holiday season. Separation Confirmed The America’s Got Talent host has confirmed the couple’s separation, while also saying that he and Carey, 45, will not let the dissolution of their marriage take a toll on the 3-year-old-twins, Moroccan and Monroe’s Christmas. “We’ll ...
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  • Paternity Rights

    Often time parents are unmarried at the time of conception or birth of a child. Because of this the parties must open a paternity case in the appropriate court in order to establish paternal rights. Because paternity cases can be complex it might be in your best interest to consult an experiences family law attorney. California Family Code section 7570 California Family Code section 7570 states ...
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  • Parenting After Divorce

    Sometimes the hardest part of a divorce is figuring out joint shared child custody. For a child, swapping between two families and two homes can become a difficult juggling act. Here are a few tips to make the transition for your kids a little easier. One Family, One Divorce, Two Houses If it’s financially feasible, it might help to get doubles of certain essentials. This will help with the ...
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  • Ricki Lake Headed for Divorce

    Two years after marrying second husband Christian Evans, it looks like Ricki Lake is headed for divorce. Legal Separation and Divorce Filing On October 9, the 47-year-old former talk show host filed for legal separation from Evans, 42. Lake filed divorce papers just a week later, citing irreconcilable differences. Because California is a “no fault” state, guilt is not assigned to either party in a ...
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  • Halle Berry Wants to Cut Child Support Payments

    Halle Berry is looking to decrease the large amount of money she’s been paying to ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry for child support. Berry, 48, and Aubry, 39, have a daughter together, 7-year-old Nahla. Monthly $16,000 Child Support Payments Berry, star of “X-Men: Days of Future Past” has been paying Aubry $16,000 a month ($192,000 a year) in child support payments since June 2014. Allegedly, Berry has ...
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  • Too Poor to Pay Child Support

    In the U.S., even though nearly one in four children should be receiving child support, only 62% of the money owed is actually being paid. To get a sense of who these deadbeat parents are, or rather where they are living, consider the data. Nationwide Data According to the Census Bureau ACS HHS Office of Child Support Enforcement, the poorer the state, the less able the state is to collect child ...
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  • Indiana's WorkOne Program - a Success for Child Support

    The Allen County Prosecutor’s Office in Indiana handles 25,000 child support cases. And a very small portion of those cases are part of a nearly-year-old pilot program with WorkOne, based in northeast Indiana. Though the WorkOne program is still in its infancy, the results are proving to be encouraging to the people handling the cases. Those participating in the program saw an increase in their ...
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  • Forced to Pay Child Support for Child He Never Knew About

    Nick Olivas became a father at 14 when he had sex with a 20-year-old woman, but he didn’t find out until eight years later, when he was served papers for child support. In retrospect he views the situation as being taken advantage of. Cannot Consent According to Arizona state law, a child under the age of 15 cannot consent with an adult under any circumstance. This ruling makes Olivas a rape ...
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  • 10 Things You Might Want to Say to Your Children During Your Divorce

    Divorce can be an overwhelming experience for you and your spouse, but it’s truly important to remember the innocent bystanders watching and listening – your kids. Here are just a few words of advice to offer children in order to help ease any tension or stress they may be feeling. It’s not the children’s fault Children are always going to want to look for a reason and one place they may turn is ...
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  • Champion Deadbeat Dad

    Raul Rodriguez Cardona might take the cake for world’s biggest deadbeat dad. The 48-year-old Rodriguez Cardona has not paid his monthly child support since 1996. Rodriguez Cardona was supposed to pay $563 each month. Since 1996 he has racked up a past-due bill of roughly $250,000. He is now facing 10 counts of felony failure to support child. Fled Wisconsin for LA The deceptive dad, having racked ...
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