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TOOL OF THE DAY: Did you know that the Social Security... You just might lose the child's benefit check to the other parent even if you only
Basic steps for entering evidence and authenticating evidence in your divorce and child custody case.
TOOL OF THE DAY: Steps for Fighting the Appointment of a GAL. Sample objections, errors when GAL enters child testimony, sample dialog, controlling precedent
TOOL OF THE DAY: The Confrontation Clause guarantees the right to confront your accusers and any witnesses against you and applies even in child abuse cases
TOOL OF THE DAY: Fitness...Do You Know What the Standard Is? CATEGORY: Family Law Fitness of a parent. What is it? If it is not defined well by your State then what else are they supposed to do other than dig into your private business to find something they think makes an undesirable parent, right?
Psych Evals are searches limited by the Fourth Amendment against judicial action.
TOOL OF THE DAY: Top 2 Things the Court Does to Disadvantage You? CATEGORY: Family Law It's unnerving walking into a courtroom and having no clue what they think. What are the presumptions that the Court has that is driving some of their behaviors? Find out what you are dealing with before you step into the Court.
TOOL OF THE DAY: Discovery Supplementation CATEGORY: Family Law Procedure Today is a quick procedural note on how you can ensure that your constitutional arguments can be introduced into your hearing. Because it does you no good to know all about your rights and not know how to actually get them into your Court argument. If
TOOL OF THE DAY: Is Time with Your Child an Entitlement or a Right? CATEGORY: Family Law Procedure Didn't the father have several hearings already? Didn't he already receive due process? This is what the Michigan Supreme Court justices asked the defense attorney when he was arguing that the father in "In Re Sanders" did
TOOL OF THE DAY: How to Argue to the Court to Abolish the Best Interest of the Child Doctrine. CATEGORY: Family Law Policy Analysis [SEE the UPDATED version of this post here.] Today, I discuss how to abolish the "Best Interest of the Child Doctrineƒ?? (BIC) from being used in your family court case. (This
TOOL OF THE DAY: Child Support...Identifying the Legal Issues and Organizing Your Winning Argument! CATEGORY: Family Law Argument Organization What reasoning does the Court use when you are challenging their idea that you should be paying child support? How do you build a solid legal issue when the wrong rule of law is being applied? The
Formula for challenging child support statutes that produce real results.