Child custody

For my mentorship paper I chose to speak with an attorney named Margaret G. Zickuhr. Mrs. Zickuhr is a Marquette Graduate and who practices primarily family law out of her firm named Houseman and Feind LLP where she is a partner. I chose to speak with Mrs. Zickuhr for several reasons. Firstly, because of my interest in ADR practices specifically mediation and negotiation, I have begun to look into possibly going into family law. Secondly, being that we are licensed upon graduation in the state…

preschool age parents separate, it is difficult for the child to process what is going on and how it will affect the family. When parents choose to separate prior to their child entering grade school, the child feels responsible for the parents’ divorce and they also feel they are being abandoned by their parents. When dealing with student’s in preschool when parents divorce, if the child has a good relationship with the non-custodial parent the child is likely to do good work in school,…

Ohana Means Family. Family Means Nobody Gets Left Behind or Forgotten. My dad was a cop and my mom was a bartender who smoked pot. I use that line when asked about my parents. It’s also a good summation for my upbringing. “What were the best and worst parts of your day?” My mom asked my three sisters and me at dinner. “Being here with my family,” we joked. It wasn’t an acceptable answer for either part of the question, but past age five, I couldn’t even answer with that sarcastic response,…

Custody and child support are two of the most contentious issues in divorce proceedings, but experienced attorneys at a law firm like Cain Smith in Statesboro, GA, know how to protect your best interests. Here are three reasons to turn to a law firm when you are caught in the middle of a child support battle: Joint Custody Is Complicated: If you and your ex-spouse have joint custody, it can be difficult to determine a fair amount that one parent must give the other in child support payments.…

their mental health and a loss of control of emotions. The impact of divorce on children is never straightforward. Some children have a greater chance to develop disorders, such as anxiety, while others don’t. It all depends on how the child is treated and comfort due to the traumatic change in their life. Studies have shown that recent generations are more socially adept. Which has proven children to become too attached to their parents. Whereas past generations weren’t as social…

for such things as child support. For example, child support is tax-free to the recipient, but not tax-deductible by the payer. Child support is a court ordered payment to be used on the minor child or children of one of the spouses. For instance, in the article “Child support Guidelines: The Good, the Bad, and the ugly” by Douglass Allen informs the reader on what to expect and what may result as a problem when filing for child support. When discussing the negative sides of child support Allen…

With her oldest child, Courtland, she worked at a shoe store called “Shoe World”. It was an average shoe store, that paid “minimum wage”, and she was able to get job security for a maternity leave, but it was unpaid time off. At this time her husband was also working, he worked at “Pizza Hut”, which also paid minimum wage. After Courtland was born, Cheryl went back to work but she had decided that she wanted to make sure Courtland was solely breastfed. Cheryl’s husband, Craig, worked opposite…

Going Through Divorce in Palm Springs 3 Step Process to Distribute Your Property in Divorce Going through a divorce can be a stressful period of time for many couples. They are faced with the reality of splitting their property and assets. At times the divorce settlement can be a real battle. The state statutes dictate the process of distributing property upon divorce, which generally includes the following steps: 1. Classify which property is subject to distribution among the parties.…

phenomenon but also to do everything that we can to improve the situation! First, people should think about the marriage very seriously, before deciding to have a child, because if the love is in vain, children are not guilty, they should not be the victims of parental quarrels. However, if it happens, parents should explain the child everything in the understandable for him or her language. From my personal point of view, it should be neither quiet divorce nor the emotional fighting. It is…

Many marriages today end in divorce. Divorces that end when there are children involved are always complicated. The children are the ones that suffer because there is a custodial parent who the child will live with and a non-custodial parent who lives somewhere else. Sadly, the non-custodial is usually the father. Fathers should be required to stay involved in their children’s lives. The fact that non-custodial fathers tend to lose contact with their children and to be more invested in…