What to Expect if Your Child is Arrested for a Crime
Few phone calls can distress a parent more than hearing his or her child was arrested for committing a crime. As a parent, it is hard not feel like a failure after learning a child could not make the choice to follow the law, but it is important to focus on how on the legal...
What Exactly is Child Support Supposed to Cover?
Caring for a child after divorce is not an easy proposition. Single parents are solely responsible for childcare, duties they could previously divide with the other parent, and must bear the burden of financing a household on one income. These challenges form the basis for why child support is such an essential source of income...
What Does it Mean to Be Legally Separated in Indiana?
Usually, the march towards divorce happens in small steps that go unnoticed for a significant period of time. Then, after enough minor irritants and recurring disagreements accumulate into larger disputes, couples start to realize they are unhappy and the marriage is in trouble. Before rushing to file for divorce and activating all the consequences of...
Restrictions on Creditors During Bankruptcy
For many individuals who decide to file for bankruptcy, the a major motivating factor is stopping incessant calls and letters from unpaid creditors. Being bombarded by creditors with demands for money someone does not have is an awful situation that leads to many sleepless nights and constant anxiety. The stress created by this situation becomes...
How to File for Divorce in Indiana
When couples enter into marriage, it is usually with a long view of their futures together and the anticipated happiness they will share. Unless a couple executed a prenuptial agreement, it is unlikely they had conversations about who would get what in the event of a divorce. While the divorce rate has declined over the...
How to Enforce Child Support Orders
Being a single parent is hard and it requires a lot of additional energy and work to raise a child to be a responsible adult. Additional burdens faced by single parents can easily be multiplied if a stable income and/or sufficient financial support is not in the picture. The perpetually rising costs of raising a...
Consequences of Violating a Protective Order
When a judge issues a protective order, that decision indicates that a serious set of circumstances exist that the judge believes endangers the life and safety of one or more individuals. These court orders are intended to protect to the rights of a person against threats or additional acts of abuse and violence by prohibiting...
Who Gets the Dog in a Divorce?
The depiction of family pets on TV and societal perceptions of how pets fit into a person’s life have greatly changed over the past 25 years. Prior to this recent shift, pets were often seen as animals distinct from the family unit, and while they provided companionship and enjoyment to family members, especially children, they...
How Does Bankruptcy Affect a Divorce Case?
It is unlikely that anyone living in the U.S. today does not know at least one person that has been divorced, and most know many more. The leading causes of divorce should not be particularly surprising to most people – incompatibility, infidelity, and financial problems – with a combination of two or more of these...
Granting Custody of a Child to Someone Other than a Parent
Child custody fights between parents, while potentially sad, are not uncommon and are not likely to evoke a strong reaction from outsiders. When, however, individuals other than the parents seek custody of a child, people tend to pay more attention, noting that such an arrangement seems unusual and somewhat unnatural. There are certainly circumstances warranting...