This is part 5 of 8 of our series on what forms you need to file for temporary orders in your divorce case. Last week we went over the Financial Declaration. Next week we’ll go over the Proposed Temporary Parenting Plan (only if you have kids, of course).
The Sealed Financial Source Documents Cover Sheet lists…
I’ve heard that once a child reaches 12 years old, he or she can decide which parent to live with. Is this true?
Not in Washington. Unlike many states, including California, Washington tries to keep children away from court altogether in custody disputes. In fact, Washington courts often react quite negatively to a parent even saying “But…
29-year old Desmond Hatchett may be a minimum wage worker, but he sure does get around.
Huffington Post reports that the Knoxville Tennessee native was recently in court:
…. where he appeared on the docket eleven times to answer for 15 of his 21 children [by at least 11 different mothers] who haven’t received child support recently. The
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Andy Mizsak of Bedford, Ohio is 28, already a member of his local school board, and an “independent political consultant.”
Sounds like he has a bright future ahead of him.
If only he’d clean up his room. In the basement. Of his parents’ house.
Don't worry, parents, he'll grow out of it….
Cleveland.com reports that Andy had a fight…
“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.” – Mao Zedong
1.7 million Chinese folk have downloaded an online video of a woman who basically goes nuts after her husband (or boyfriend; it’s unclear) refuses to buy her the car she wants at a Shanghai dealership. Shanghai…
The Minnesota Divorce and Family Law Blog is an excellent site for both regional and nationally relevant information.
The blog writes about a cool new web tool (no, not runpee.com, the site that tells you when you go pee during a movie). The gloriously simple idea of meetways.com is to let you find a convenient half-way point…
Everyone knows that cheating can have unintended consequences, but here’s another story worthy of a bad soap opera:
Mia Washington noticed that her infant twin sons had different facial features. DNA testing proved that Justin and Jordan had different fathers.
Mia admits to cheating on her partner James Harrison, who is father to one of the twins.
Gay rights advocates have become increasingly impatient for the Obama administration to make good on its pledge to dismantle the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell insanity. Till then, at least there’s some positive news from the State Department. Matthew Lee from the Huffington Post reports:
In a notice to be sent soon to
A massive new report by the Irish Commision To Inquire into Child Abuse has uncovered enough malfeasance and coverups in Catholic reform schools for a dozen Charles Dickens novels, a month of Oprah’s and a Dan Brown prequel.
Rape, humiliation, ritual abuse, it’s all there. The nine-year investigation, conducted only after a decade of lobbying by abuse survivors, uncovered…
This American Life is not just the best radio show in America – the TV version might be the best thing on TV as well (sorry Dollhouse).
This week’s radio episode discusses a terribly sad story of international adoption fraud. The story ends this past February, with a complicated criminal plea for four members of the adoption agency Focus…
