Unlike other legal matters, many family law issues are not one-shot deals. For example, things like child support and child custody are all subject to review by the court overseeing the case. The idea is that the best interests of the children involved are subject to...
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Custody considerations with respect to schooling
For children, school is a very important part of life. Between classes and activities, Arizona children spend a lot of time either at school or doing school-related activities. In addition to the time commitment, where a child goes to school and how they perform can...
Review of grandparents visitation rights in Arizona
Although this blog has discussed it before, it may be helpful to Phoenix grandparents to have a refresher on what their visitation rights are under Arizona law.After all, sometimes court-ordered grandparents' visitation is the only way to make sure that the important...
Review of Arizona’s grandparent visitation laws
This blog has on previous occasions talked about how Arizona has a law that, in some circumstances, allows grandparents to obtain a court order requiring that they get to visit their grandchildren from time to time.While these grandparents' visitation rights are not...
When may a court deviate from the Arizona Guidelines?
Generally speaking, a Phoenix or Gilbert parent who does not have his or her child the majority of the time or who has equal time but earns more than the other parent is going to be ordered to pay child support in some amount. Usually, the Arizona Guidelines...
Child support and federal, state tax exemptions
Unlike other states, Arizona actually has a detailed formula that determines which parent should get the benefit of federal tax exemptions, as well as state tax exemptions, should the parents be unmarried and living in separate households. Exemptions involving...
How will stock options be handled in a divorce?
Many people in Phoenix, Arizona, who have full-time positions get to take advantage of several benefits that their employers offer to them. Particularly in executive and other white-collar positions, for instance, an employee may be allowed to acquire stock options....
Number of children living with single dads increased slightly
It seems that among children who are living with either one or the other of their biological parents, most still live their mothers. Since the late 1960s, the number of children who are living with parents who are married to each other, including stepparents, has...
Raising grandkids is hard, and is becoming more common
It is not secret that across the country, more and more children are living with and being raised by their grandparents. Across the country, according to numbers reported by one agency of another state, there are now over 5.5 million children who are under the age of...
Representation in cross-border custody disputes
A previous post on this blog talked about how international child custody disputes are potentially very complicated. This is especially true when there are allegations that one parent has taken the child out of the country improperly.The reason they are so complicated...