Category Archives: Features

How to Get Temporary Orders – Proposed Order of Child Support

This is part 6 of 8 of our series on what forms you need to file for temporary orders in your divorce case. Last time we went over the Proposed Temporary Parenting Plan.  Next time we’ll go over the Child Support Worksheets.

WHY YOU NEED IT

Washington State requires a child support order in any…

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The 89-Year Old Blushing Bride Of Palm Beach – And Her Older Man

The Palm Beach Post reports on the recent nuptials of nervous groom Ebenezer Rose, 93 and his blushing bride, 89-year old Monica Hayden:

The couple, friends for decades, said they decided to take the plunge after a brief courtship.

Rose, who as a younger man traveled the world as a missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, met Hayden in

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Descent Into Credit Card Hell

As family law attorneys, we see debt problems in many of our cases. The budgeting site mint.com has a great new graphic presentation on the hellish descent into credit card debt.

Proceed, if you dare, into this brilliantly conceived nightmare by Jess Bachman….

Good luck to you in your battles with the Gods of Credit…

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Remorseful Rapist Begs Forgiveness; I Am Ambivalent

A few weeks ago we wrote about the rape epidemic in the Congo. Unfortunately, a culture of tolerating and even encouraging gang rapes appears in other parts of Africa as well. This week the BBC reports about a South African man who sought out a woman he had raped as a teenager in his home village:

Dumisani Rebombo

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A Fling, A Bitter 78-Year Old Wife – And A Lead Pipe

We recently ran a story about one unintended consequence of cheating – having twins, each with a different father. We now learn that there is apparently no statute of limitations on the rage of the spouse being cheated on. The Everett Herald reports that a 78-year old woman took a lead pipe to her husband over…

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Appraisals, Market Value, Declining Markets … OH MY! Refinancing During Your Divorce In Today’s Economy

As Dorothy, The Lion, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man were fearful of their fate on their path to the Emerald City, there are some major concerns regarding appraisals and refinancing that are up for consideration when moving through a divorce process in 2009. Are they just fears of the imagination as in the Wizard of Oz movie or real…

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Desmond, The Serial Inseminator Of Knoxville

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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The Troglodyte Man Child Of Bedford

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…

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Gay Diplomats To Ask, Tell & Get Their Per Diem

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

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Elleia Of Samoa … and Spanish Fork … and Samoa

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…

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