Category: Family Law
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Marital property laws punish the spouse who built the business
Divorce courts treat businesses built during a marriage as marital property, often forcing painful payouts that don’t reflect who actually built the value.
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Domestic violence restraining orders are too easy to get and abuse
Restraining orders save lives in real DV cases, but the same low-evidence threshold that protects victims also enables strategic misuse in custody disputes.
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Document mill divorce services: the online attorney who isn’t one
Online divorce document services market themselves as legal help while explicitly disclaiming legal advice. The gap costs clients money, time, and sometimes custody.
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Child support formulas are decades out of date
State child support guidelines were built for a different economy. The formulas misprice modern custody, healthcare costs, and dual-earner households.
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Supervised visitation centers are warehouses, not solutions
Supervised visitation was supposed to protect kids while preserving family ties. The current network often does neither, and reform requires more than capacity.
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The scorched earth scam: lawyers who profit from prolonging conflict
Some attorneys deliberately escalate disputes to extend billable hours. Here’s how the scorched-earth playbook works and how to recognize it.
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Grandparent visitation rights have gone too far
Grandparent visitation laws were intended to protect kids, but in practice they often override fit parents’ decisions. Here’s how the legal landscape shifted.
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Grandparent visitation rights haven’t gone far enough
After Troxel v. Granville, grandparent visitation laws were sharply limited. The current legal patchwork leaves many family relationships unprotected.
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Same-sex divorce exposes how heteronormative family law still is
Marriage equality arrived in 2015, but family law still assumes a husband and wife. Same-sex divorces are exposing the cracks in plain view.