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Adoption
- Adoption and Consent: What is Required?
Appellate
- Top 4 Cases to Raise an Appeal
- The 10 things your Appellate Lawyer needs to know or be given by you.
- The 9 Ways to Make Your Appeal, Well, Unappealing or Unable to Be Appealed.
- 5 Universal Hallmarks Of A Good Attorney-Client Relationship
- The Appellate or Appeals Checklist: What An Appellate Attorney Needs To Begin An Appeal
- The Appellate Checklist: Ten Things To Gather And Provide To Your Appellate Attorney
- What is Rotunda Filing Of An Appellate Brief (Or Motion)?
- Three Considerations In Retaining Appellate Counsel
- Three Keys To Effective Appellate Writing
- Oral Argument in the Court of Appeals of Indiana
- New Appeal in Appeals: Foundational Changes in How Appeals Are Perfected and a New Composition in Justice on the Indiana Supreme Court
- Final Orders Only Please: Why Most Orders of Trial Court Cannot Be Appealed
- Statutes of Limitations: Drop Dead Dates and What They Mean to Your Case In the Trial Court or Court of Appeals
- The Art of Appeals
- Appellate Attorneys Fees: A Question of Content and Quality
- Can I Appeal My Case?
- Considering a Petition for Rehearing: The Next Step When the Trial Court is Affirmed by the Court of Appeals
- Denial of a Speedy Criminal Trial: Cause for Discharge of the Charges?
- Domestic Law Appeals: Standard of Review and Factual Questions Versus Legal Ones
- Appellate Costs: What Can Be Recouped?
- When and how to ask the court to Stay an order while you appeal
- Appeals Cases: An Inside Look When the Indiana Court of Appeals Come to a Place Near You!
Breaking News
- Switch Back (In Time): Will Indiana’s Ban On Switchblade Knives Come to a Close?
- New Appeal in Appeals: Foundational Changes in How Appeals Are Perfected and a New Composition in Justice on the Indiana Supreme Court
- Indiana May “Open” For Gun Business: Welcome to Your New Home?
Business Law
- How to determine what needs to be in a contract?
- The Six Legal Mistakes Start-Up Businesses Make.
- 5 Universal Hallmarks Of A Good Attorney-Client Relationship
Child Custody
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Indiana Parenting
- I’m Afraid My Spouse Will Take My Child or Children Abroad and Not Return Him or Her
- Joint Physical Custody, the Final Frontier?
- What Is A Parenting Coordinator? Do I Need One?"
- What Is A Custody Evaluation? Do I Need One? Why Not Just Let The Judge Decide?
- Can I Change Counties In Indiana In My Divorce Case?
- What is Paternity? How Do We Establish Paternity Of Our Child In Indiana?
- The Five Things To Provide To A Custody Evaluator
- Custody, Parenting Time, And Relocation Evaluations, Their Three Elements: “The Good, Bad & The Ugly.”
- WHAT!!!! My ex taped my conversations. Is that legal? How, if at all, does this factor into our custody battle?
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: Moving with the Children in Indiana.
- Job Loss and Child Support Modification in Indiana
- Our Sex Tape And Its Impact On Child Custody In Divorce In Indiana
- 6 Tips to Dealing With An Unreasonable Ex-Spouse in Child And Custody Issues
- Five Tips To Smooth(er?) Child Exchanges For Divorced Parents
- Four Things That Trip Up Parents With Kids After Divorce
- Ten Things To Consider In Every Child Custody Relocation Case
- The Indiana Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Seven Ways To Get A Child Heard In Divorce And Custody Proceedings
- Child Support Modification Checklist
- How to Determine the Type of Custody You Have or Arrangement You Seek: The Eight Biggies
- Five Times In A Child's Life When A Parent Should Consider Filing A Child Custoday Modification
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- The Controlled Expense Component in the Child Support Calculation: What it Means to You in Joint (Equal Time) Physical Custody
- Child Support And Bonuses: Ways To Factor Regular and Irregular Bonuses Into Child Support
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- The Right to Free Speech vs. Parents in Child Custody Litigation: What You Can and Cannot Say
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion Over the Basis for Modification: Part I of II – Legal Custody
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion over the Basis for Modification: Part II of II, Physical Custody
- Who is a “Family Member” for Purposes of the First Right of Refusal in Parenting Time
- Interference with Parenting Time: Is This a Basis to Modify Child Custody
- Establishing De Facto Custodian Status With Infants And Toddlers: The Evidence
- What You Don't Know In A Divorce Might Hurt You: The Three Biggies
- Can Indiana Department of Child Services Terminate My Parental Rights Based Solely on my Past Parenting Shortfalls: Probably Not
- For The Love of a Child
- Use of Custody and Parenting Time Evaluations
- When Does a Trial Court’s Order of Increased Parenting Time Equate to a Modification of Custody?
- How to Modify Legal Custody
- Potential Key Changes in the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines
- “De Facto Custody” Uses and Limitations: Not a Legal Avenue for Occasional Visitation
- The Top Five Common Types of Evidence to Establish De Facto Custodian Status: How to Prove Care and Financial Support
- Children in Need of Services: When DCS Intervenes
- The Importance of a Proper Consent to Adoption
- Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
- The Public School vs. Private School Debate Regarding Child Custody
- Six DOs to Improve Communication During Divorce Litigation and in Parenting the Children After the Case is Closed
- Child Kidnapping by Parents: The State, Federal, and International Prevention Laws
- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act: Returning Children Home
- The State Law Companion to the PKPA: UCCJA’s Application to Unlawful Removal of Children
- International Custody Disputes: The Importance of the Hague Convention
- Normal Emotions Versus Manipulation and Alienation: When Parents Cross the Line
- Determining Custody: Interaction of Parents and Children
- Legal Custody: The “Bickering Parents” Impact
- What legal grounds do you have if you are caring for a child that is not your own?
- Different ways to obtain custody of a minor child
- Making the Most of Parenting Time during the Holidays
- New Year’s Parenting Time Resolutions: Tips for a Harmonious 2013
- Out of State: How to make Travel Plans Go Smoothly
- Failure to Pay Child Support=Felony and Imprisonment?
- Child Custody: GAL and/or Custody Evaluation?
- DCS and Custody: Potential Crossover Coming?
- Guardianships: The Who, What, When, and Why
- Paternity Actions: Which Last Name Does the Child Receive?
- Child Support and Health Care: Can Costs be Too High?
- Parenting Time and Serious Illness: What Happens to the Schedule?
Child Kidnapping by Parents
- Child Kidnapping by Parents: The State, Federal, and International Prevention Laws
- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act: Returning Children Home
- The State Law Companion to the PKPA: UCCJA’s Application to Unlawful Removal of Children
- International Custody Disputes: The Importance of the Hague Convention
Child Support
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- What Is A Custody Evaluation? Do I Need One? Why Not Just Let The Judge Decide?
- “Negative” Child Support In Indiana: Fact Or Fiction?
- Job Loss and Child Support Modification in Indiana
- Child Support Modification Checklist
- What’s New With Indiana Child Support: Immediate Income Withholding Orders and Payment to a Central State Collection Unit
- The Controlled Expense Component in the Child Support Calculation: What it Means to You in Joint (Equal Time) Physical Custody
- Child Support And Bonuses: Ways To Factor Regular and Irregular Bonuses Into Child Support
- Payment of College Expenses by Divorced Parents
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- The Right to Free Speech vs. Parents in Child Custody Litigation: What You Can and Cannot Say
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion over the Basis for Modification: Part II of II, Physical Custody
- Retroactive Modification of Child Support To The Date of Filing A Modification Petition
- Changing Child Support Statutes On Emancipation in Indiana
- The Imputed Income Dimension of Child Support
- Calculating Indiana Child Support: How to Factor Social Security
- “Educational (Child) Support": A Glimpse Into What Indiana's New Support Battleground Will Be and How Emancipation Statute Will Work
- Calculating Child Support
- Indiana “Alimony”
- Child Support Arrears
- Child Support and Employment: The Boundaries for Job Change
- Failure to Pay Child Support = Driver’s License Suspension?
- The Progression of the New Indiana Emancipation Law: A Second Look
- What legal grounds do you have if you are caring for a child that is not your own?
- Foreign Country Child Support Orders
- Child Support and College Expenses
- Failure to Pay Child Support=Felony and Imprisonment?
- 401(k) Contributions and Child Support
- Unpaid Child Support: Who is the Victim?
- Child Support Overpayment: Reimbursement Options?
- Child Support and Health Care: Can Costs be Too High?
- College Expenses and Child Support – How the two relate
Child Visitation
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Indiana Parenting
- I’m Afraid My Spouse Will Take My Child or Children Abroad and Not Return Him or Her
- What Is A Parenting Coordinator? Do I Need One?"
- What Is A Custody Evaluation? Do I Need One? Why Not Just Let The Judge Decide?
- Custody, Parenting Time, And Relocation Evaluations, Their Three Elements: “The Good, Bad & The Ugly.”
- 6 Tips to Dealing With An Unreasonable Ex-Spouse in Child And Custody Issues
- Five Tips To Smooth(er?) Child Exchanges For Divorced Parents
- Ten Things To Consider In Every Child Custody Relocation Case
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- The Right to Free Speech vs. Parents in Child Custody Litigation: What You Can and Cannot Say
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion over the Basis for Modification: Part II of II, Physical Custody
- Who is a “Family Member” for Purposes of the First Right of Refusal in Parenting Time
- For The Love of a Child
- Potential Key Changes in the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines
- “De Facto Custody” Uses and Limitations: Not a Legal Avenue for Occasional Visitation
- Six DOs to Improve Communication During Divorce Litigation and in Parenting the Children After the Case is Closed
- Making the Most of Parenting Time during the Holidays
- New Year’s Parenting Time Resolutions: Tips for a Harmonious 2013
- DCS and Custody: Potential Crossover Coming?
- Opportunity for Additional Parenting Time: What is the New Standard?
- Parenting Time and Serious Illness: What Happens to the Schedule?
Civil Law
- Your “Home”work: The Seven Most Important Things To Consider And Mistakes To Avoid When Purchasing A Home.
- WHAT!!!! My ex taped my conversations. Is that legal? How, if at all, does this factor into our custody battle?
- Civil Liability: The Seven Things You Need To Know That Attorney’s See And Wished They Could Tell You To Avoid Making Common Mistakes That Have Life-Long Consequences.
- 5 Universal Hallmarks Of A Good Attorney-Client Relationship
- Do I Need A Protective Order?
- Why The Lights Come On: The Power Of The Contract
- Cell Phone Privacy: What are the Boundaries in Civil and Criminal Litigation?
- Observations While in Civil Mediation: Today!
- Attorney Fees in Civil Cases – Proposed Senate Bill may change the Status Quo
- Miranda Warnings: “Public Safety Exception”
Contempt
- Court Orders and Contempt
Court Orders
- Court Orders and Contempt
- Technology in the Court Room: A Recent Indiana Supreme Court Order
Criminal Law
- Once a Protective Order (PO) is issued, how does local law enforcement know?
- Violating a Protective Order: Can the Victim become the Prosecuted?
- Facts and Circumstances Justifying the Issuance of A Protective Order
- Failure to Pay Child Support=Felony and Imprisonment?
- When does blogging cross the line from Free Speech, to criminally punishable?
Custody Evaluation
- Use of Custody and Parenting Time Evaluations
- Avoiding the Top Five Mistakes Made in Custody/Parenting Time Evaluations (Part 1of 2)
- Avoiding the Top Five Mistakes Made in Custody/Parenting Time Evaluations (Part 2 of 2)
- Child Custody: GAL and/or Custody Evaluation?
- DCS and Custody: Potential Crossover Coming?
Custody Mediation
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- 6 Tips to Dealing With An Unreasonable Ex-Spouse in Child And Custody Issues
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- What’s New With Indiana Child Support: Immediate Income Withholding Orders and Payment to a Central State Collection Unit
Custody Modification
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Indiana Parenting
- I’m Afraid My Spouse Will Take My Child or Children Abroad and Not Return Him or Her
- Joint Physical Custody, the Final Frontier?
- What Is A Custody Evaluation? Do I Need One? Why Not Just Let The Judge Decide?
- Can I Change Counties In Indiana In My Divorce Case?
- Custody, Parenting Time, And Relocation Evaluations, Their Three Elements: “The Good, Bad & The Ugly.”
- Job Loss and Child Support Modification in Indiana
- Two Strong Cases For Child Custody Modification And Two Weak Ones
- Four Things That Trip Up Parents With Kids After Divorce
- Ten Things To Consider In Every Child Custody Relocation Case
- The Indiana Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Child Support Modification Checklist
- Five Times In A Child's Life When A Parent Should Consider Filing A Child Custoday Modification
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- Child Support And Bonuses: Ways To Factor Regular and Irregular Bonuses Into Child Support
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion Over the Basis for Modification: Part I of II – Legal Custody
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion over the Basis for Modification: Part II of II, Physical Custody
- Interference with Parenting Time: Is This a Basis to Modify Child Custody
- For The Love of a Child
- Retroactive Modification of Child Support To The Date of Filing A Modification Petition
- Changing Child Support Statutes On Emancipation in Indiana
- When Does a Trial Court’s Order of Increased Parenting Time Equate to a Modification of Custody?
- How to Modify Legal Custody
- Potential Key Changes in the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines
- “De Facto Custody” Uses and Limitations: Not a Legal Avenue for Occasional Visitation
- Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
- Child Support and Employment: The Boundaries for Job Change
- Custody Modification: What Evidence Can Be Introduced
- Different ways to obtain custody of a minor child
- You Can’t Get Blood from a Turnip: When Can Spousal Maintenance Payments Stop or be Reduced?
Custody Relocation
- Custody Relocation Reasons And Intent: Ultimate Question “What Is in the Child’s Best Interest?”
Deadly Force
- Does The Legal Justification To Use Deadly Force Apply To Animal Attacks?
- Something Old, Something New – Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1
Depositions
- Technology and Depositions: How do they work?
- Depositions: The Five Universal Rules
Depositions
- Three Unique Things to Domestic Depositions
Discovery
- Gathering Information: How to Reach Third-Parties
- Miranda Warnings: “Public Safety Exception”
Divorce
- Divorce Decree: Things That Often Fall Through the Cracks Once a Divorce is Final
- Things to Gather for Your Divorce Lawyer
- My Spouse is Abusive to Me and Mean to the Kids. Can I Move Out and Home With My Parents in A Nearby State and File for Divorce There?
- The Seven Steps To Effective Communications With Your Divorce Attorney
- The Three Signs Your Marriage is Trouble
- Facing Facebook in Your Divorce Proceedings
- What Is Divorce Planning, And Should I Consider It?
- Rover: Pet Custody In Divorce
- Division of Marital Assets In Divorce
- The 7 Most Intimate and Personal Things Your Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know
- The Newest Threat To Your Marriage And What You Can Do About It-Now—Before It Is Too Late...And It's Not What You Think!
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: The American Rule: Who Will Pay Your Legal Fees?
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: Division of Assets Brought into a Short-Term Marriage.
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: Moving with the Children in Indiana.
- Five Ways to Cope During a Divorce
- Hiding or Wasting Marital Assets, Money or Funds in Divorce in Indiana
- Our Sex Tape And Its Impact On Child Custody In Divorce In Indiana
- How to Get Court-Ordered Counseling During and After a Divorce Proceeding
- 6 Tips to Dealing With An Unreasonable Ex-Spouse in Child And Custody Issues
- No-Fault Divorce: Four Legal Reasons for Divorce.
- Five Tips To Smooth(er?) Child Exchanges For Divorced Parents
- Four Things That Trip Up Parents With Kids After Divorce
- Ten Things To Consider In Every Child Custody Relocation Case
- Four Tips To Minimize Legal Fees In Divorce And Expedite The Process
- The Five Ways to Finalize a Divorce: This Isn’t Your Parents Divorce
- The Four Ways to Survive During the Pendency of a Divorce
- Four Legal Reasons for a Divorce In Indiana
- The Five Most Common Terms for Filings In Court for Divorce Proceedings
- Four Key Questions Your Divorce Attorney Needs Answers To
- Things That Might Surprise You About a Divorce Trial, But Shouldn't
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- What Is A QDRO And What Happens If It Is Not Done Or There Is Not Enough Money
- Marital Property – What is It?
- The Right to Free Speech vs. Parents in Child Custody Litigation: What You Can and Cannot Say
- Re-Examination of the Post-Nuptial as a Divorce Timing and Planning Tool
- The Good, Bad and Ugly of a Fifteen-Day Divorce
- When Nothing is Private: Using Private Investigators in Divorce Litigation
- The Closely Held Business in Divorce: Two Things You Might Not Know, but Should
- What You Don't Know In A Divorce Might Hurt You: The Three Biggies
- Divorce is a Taxing Time, but Don’t Forget the Tax Consequences of Marital Real Property (Like a Family Farm)
- Indiana Parenting Coordinators: The Final Frontier In Divorce Cases?
- Five Ways to Save Legal Fees in a Divorce
- Dissolution Agreements: Enforcing the Contract
- The “Marital Pot”
- Six DOs to Improve Communication During Divorce Litigation and in Parenting the Children After the Case is Closed
- Normal Emotions Versus Manipulation and Alienation: When Parents Cross the Line
- Restoring the Maiden Name: Post-Divorce Name Change
- Divorce Settlement Agreements: How Third Parties Play a Role
- Accepting Paternity: Raising a Biologically Unrelated Child
- Filing Legal Separation: The Process and Results
- Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines: Proposed Changes Moving Forward
- The Indiana Civil Order Protection Act in Divorce Cases: The Good, Bad and Ugly
- Failure to Pay Child Support = Driver’s License Suspension?
- Domestic Torts: Can you sue?
- Divorce out of County: Can the Judge or County of Venue be Changed?
- Setting Aside a Divorce Decree when one Party is Unrepresented by Counsel
- Artificial Insemination and Parental Rights and Obligations
- How to have a Kid-Friendly Divorce – Part 1
- How to have a Kid-Friendly Post-Divorce – Part 2
- Property Division in Divorce
- Child Support Overpayment: Reimbursement Options?
- Opportunity for Additional Parenting Time: What is the New Standard?
- Physical or Mental Concerns in Domestic Law: Are Details Discoverable?
- After a hearing, how long should you expect a ruling in a domestic case?
Divorce Mediation
- Divorce Decree: Things That Often Fall Through the Cracks Once a Divorce is Final
- Things to Gather for Your Divorce Lawyer
- My Spouse is Abusive to Me and Mean to the Kids. Can I Move Out and Home With My Parents in A Nearby State and File for Divorce There?
- The Seven Steps To Effective Communications With Your Divorce Attorney
- The Three Signs Your Marriage is Trouble
- What Is Divorce Planning, And Should I Consider It?
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- Divorce is a Taxing Time, but Don’t Forget the Tax Consequences of Marital Real Property (Like a Family Farm)
- Five Ways to Save Legal Fees in a Divorce
- Dissolution Agreements: Enforcing the Contract
- Divorce Settlement Agreements: How Third Parties Play a Role
- The Indiana Civil Order Protection Act in Divorce Cases: The Good, Bad and Ugly
- Domestic Torts: Can you sue?
- How to have a Kid-Friendly Divorce – Part 1
- Confidentiality at Mediation
- Physical or Mental Concerns in Domestic Law: Are Details Discoverable?
Emancipation
- The New Emancipation Law: Beginning to Understand the Implications
- “Educational (Child) Support": A Glimpse Into What Indiana's New Support Battleground Will Be and How Emancipation Statute Will Work
- Child Support and College Expenses
Family Law
- Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Divorce Decree: Things That Often Fall Through the Cracks Once a Divorce is Final
- Things to Gather for Your Divorce Lawyer
- My Spouse is Abusive to Me and Mean to the Kids. Can I Move Out and Home With My Parents in A Nearby State and File for Divorce There?
- The Seven Steps To Effective Communications With Your Divorce Attorney
- Indiana Parenting
- The Three Signs Your Marriage is Trouble
- I’m Afraid My Spouse Will Take My Child or Children Abroad and Not Return Him or Her
- Joint Physical Custody, the Final Frontier?
- Facing Facebook in Your Divorce Proceedings
- What Is A Parenting Coordinator? Do I Need One?"
- What Is Divorce Planning, And Should I Consider It?
- What Is A Custody Evaluation? Do I Need One? Why Not Just Let The Judge Decide?
- Can I Change Counties In Indiana In My Divorce Case?
- What is Paternity? How Do We Establish Paternity Of Our Child In Indiana?
- Rover: Pet Custody In Divorce
- Division of Marital Assets In Divorce
- The 7 Most Intimate and Personal Things Your Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know
- The Five Things To Provide To A Custody Evaluator
- Custody, Parenting Time, And Relocation Evaluations, Their Three Elements: “The Good, Bad & The Ugly.”
- WHAT!!!! My ex taped my conversations. Is that legal? How, if at all, does this factor into our custody battle?
- The Newest Threat To Your Marriage And What You Can Do About It-Now—Before It Is Too Late...And It's Not What You Think!
- “Negative” Child Support In Indiana: Fact Or Fiction?
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: The American Rule: Who Will Pay Your Legal Fees?
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: Division of Assets Brought into a Short-Term Marriage.
- Indiana Divorce Law 101: Moving with the Children in Indiana.
- Five Ways to Cope During a Divorce
- Job Loss and Child Support Modification in Indiana
- Hiding or Wasting Marital Assets, Money or Funds in Divorce in Indiana
- Our Sex Tape And Its Impact On Child Custody In Divorce In Indiana
- How to Get Court-Ordered Counseling During and After a Divorce Proceeding
- 5 Universal Hallmarks Of A Good Attorney-Client Relationship
- 6 Tips to Dealing With An Unreasonable Ex-Spouse in Child And Custody Issues
- No-Fault Divorce: Four Legal Reasons for Divorce.
- Five Tips To Smooth(er?) Child Exchanges For Divorced Parents
- Two Strong Cases For Child Custody Modification And Two Weak Ones
- Four Things That Trip Up Parents With Kids After Divorce
- Ten Things To Consider In Every Child Custody Relocation Case
- The Indiana Child Custody Modification Checklist
- Four Tips To Minimize Legal Fees In Divorce And Expedite The Process
- Seven Things to You Need to Know for a Deposition in Your Divorce Case
- Seven Ways To Get A Child Heard In Divorce And Custody Proceedings
- The Five Ways to Finalize a Divorce: This Isn’t Your Parents Divorce
- The Four Ways to Survive During the Pendency of a Divorce
- Child Support Modification Checklist
- How to Establish Paternity, And the Rest of the Story
- How to Determine the Type of Custody You Have or Arrangement You Seek: The Eight Biggies
- Four Legal Reasons for a Divorce In Indiana
- The Five Most Common Terms for Filings In Court for Divorce Proceedings
- Five Times In A Child's Life When A Parent Should Consider Filing A Child Custoday Modification
- Four Key Questions Your Divorce Attorney Needs Answers To
- Things That Might Surprise You About a Divorce Trial, But Shouldn't
- The Five Post-Divorce Life Events Impacting Custody and Support That May Require (Legal) Action
- What’s New With Indiana Child Support: Immediate Income Withholding Orders and Payment to a Central State Collection Unit
- What Is A QDRO And What Happens If It Is Not Done Or There Is Not Enough Money
- The Controlled Expense Component in the Child Support Calculation: What it Means to You in Joint (Equal Time) Physical Custody
- Child Support And Bonuses: Ways To Factor Regular and Irregular Bonuses Into Child Support
- Marital Property – What is It?
- Payment of College Expenses by Divorced Parents
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- The Right to Free Speech vs. Parents in Child Custody Litigation: What You Can and Cannot Say
- Legal Separation As A Consideration For Older Couples: Maximizing the Quality of Life
- Re-Examination of the Post-Nuptial as a Divorce Timing and Planning Tool
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion Over the Basis for Modification: Part I of II – Legal Custody
- The Types of Physical and Legal Custody, What the Language May Mean, and Confusion over the Basis for Modification: Part II of II, Physical Custody
- The Good, Bad and Ugly of a Fifteen-Day Divorce
- Who is a “Family Member” for Purposes of the First Right of Refusal in Parenting Time
- When Nothing is Private: Using Private Investigators in Divorce Litigation
- Interference with Parenting Time: Is This a Basis to Modify Child Custody
- Establishing De Facto Custodian Status With Infants And Toddlers: The Evidence
- The Closely Held Business in Divorce: Two Things You Might Not Know, but Should
- What You Don't Know In A Divorce Might Hurt You: The Three Biggies
- Divorce is a Taxing Time, but Don’t Forget the Tax Consequences of Marital Real Property (Like a Family Farm)
- Can Indiana Department of Child Services Terminate My Parental Rights Based Solely on my Past Parenting Shortfalls: Probably Not
- For The Love of a Child
- Retroactive Modification of Child Support To The Date of Filing A Modification Petition
- Indiana Parenting Coordinators: The Final Frontier In Divorce Cases?
- Cell Phone Privacy: What are the Boundaries in Civil and Criminal Litigation?
- Ten Things Every Domestic Litigant Needs To Do the Night Before and Day of Trial
- Changing Child Support Statutes On Emancipation in Indiana
- Use of Custody and Parenting Time Evaluations
- 7 Things Domestic Litigants May Do Wrong When It Comes To a Trial
- Who is Entitled to the Children’s Tax Exemption After a Divorce?
- Crossing The Line - When Child Discipline Becomes Criminal
- When Does a Trial Court’s Order of Increased Parenting Time Equate to a Modification of Custody?
- How to Modify Legal Custody
- Custody Relocation Reasons And Intent: Ultimate Question “What Is in the Child’s Best Interest?”
- The Imputed Income Dimension of Child Support
- Potential Key Changes in the Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines
- The New Emancipation Law: Beginning to Understand the Implications
- “De Facto Custody” Uses and Limitations: Not a Legal Avenue for Occasional Visitation
- Fifth Amendment Rights in Domestic Cases: How Far Does Protection Extend?
- Keeping your personal information confidential: Administrative Rule 9 and its Protections
- Five Ways to Save Legal Fees in a Divorce
- The Top Five Common Types of Evidence to Establish De Facto Custodian Status: How to Prove Care and Financial Support
- Calculating Indiana Child Support: How to Factor Social Security
- Redefining “Marriage”: Decisions on Same-Sex Marriage
- Dissolution Agreements: Enforcing the Contract
- “Educational (Child) Support": A Glimpse Into What Indiana's New Support Battleground Will Be and How Emancipation Statute Will Work
- Children in Need of Services: When DCS Intervenes
- Calculating Child Support
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Indiana “Alimony”
- The “Marital Pot”
- The Importance of a Proper Consent to Adoption
- Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
- Avoiding the Top Five Mistakes Made in Custody/Parenting Time Evaluations (Part 1of 2)
- Avoiding the Top Five Mistakes Made in Custody/Parenting Time Evaluations (Part 2 of 2)
- Child Support Arrears
- The Public School vs. Private School Debate Regarding Child Custody
- Grandparent Visitation: Defining the Amount Time
- Six DOs to Improve Communication During Divorce Litigation and in Parenting the Children After the Case is Closed
- Child Support and Employment: The Boundaries for Job Change
- Child Kidnapping by Parents: The State, Federal, and International Prevention Laws
- Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act: Returning Children Home
- The State Law Companion to the PKPA: UCCJA’s Application to Unlawful Removal of Children
- International Custody Disputes: The Importance of the Hague Convention
- Normal Emotions Versus Manipulation and Alienation: When Parents Cross the Line
- Restoring the Maiden Name: Post-Divorce Name Change
- Finding Hidden Assets in Divorce: The Role of a Private Investigator
- Divorce Settlement Agreements: How Third Parties Play a Role
- Accepting Paternity: Raising a Biologically Unrelated Child
- Filing Legal Separation: The Process and Results
- Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines: Proposed Changes Moving Forward
- The Indiana Civil Order Protection Act in Divorce Cases: The Good, Bad and Ugly
- Failure to Pay Child Support = Driver’s License Suspension?
- Domestic Torts: Can you sue?
- Divorce out of County: Can the Judge or County of Venue be Changed?
- Setting Aside a Divorce Decree when one Party is Unrepresented by Counsel
- The Progression of the New Indiana Emancipation Law: A Second Look
- Unfavorable Orders in Family Law Cases: What Can You Do?
- The Impact of Prenuptial Agreements: How They Factor into Dissolution Property Divisions?
- Determining Custody: Interaction of Parents and Children
- Domestic Law Appeals: Standard of Review and Factual Questions Versus Legal Ones
- Legal Custody: The “Bickering Parents” Impact
- Three Unique Things to Domestic Depositions
- What legal grounds do you have if you are caring for a child that is not your own?
- Custody Modification: What Evidence Can Be Introduced
- Different ways to obtain custody of a minor child
- Adoption and Consent: What is Required?
- You Can’t Get Blood from a Turnip: When Can Spousal Maintenance Payments Stop or be Reduced?
- Making the Most of Parenting Time during the Holidays
- New Year’s Parenting Time Resolutions: Tips for a Harmonious 2013
- Out of State: How to make Travel Plans Go Smoothly
- Foreign Country Child Support Orders
- Child Support and College Expenses
- Artificial Insemination and Parental Rights and Obligations
- Failure to Pay Child Support=Felony and Imprisonment?
- How to have a Kid-Friendly Divorce – Part 1
- Tort Settlement as part of the Marital Pot?
- Defining Marriage? Postponed until 2014
- How to have a Kid-Friendly Post-Divorce – Part 2
- Child Custody: GAL and/or Custody Evaluation?
- Confidentiality at Mediation
- 401(k) Contributions and Child Support
- DCS and Custody: Potential Crossover Coming?
- Unpaid Child Support: Who is the Victim?
- Guardianships: The Who, What, When, and Why
- Grandparent Visitation: When is it appropriate, and what are the limits on how much?
- Property Division in Divorce
- Paternity Actions: Which Last Name Does the Child Receive?
- Child Support Overpayment: Reimbursement Options?
- Opportunity for Additional Parenting Time: What is the New Standard?
- Child Support and Health Care: Can Costs be Too High?
- College Expenses and Child Support – How the two relate
- Parenting Time and Serious Illness: What Happens to the Schedule?
- Physical or Mental Concerns in Domestic Law: Are Details Discoverable?
- After a hearing, how long should you expect a ruling in a domestic case?
Federal Gun Laws
- Proposed New Federal Gun Laws
Firearms Law
- What is the Castle Doctrine? How is it applied in states that have adopted this in their law of self-defense for the exercise of deadly force?
- What does Home Rule and State Preemption mean for firearms law and regulation?
- Indiana Gun Laws 101: What's New?
- Why Is State Preemption Of Firearms Law Controversial Under Indiana Senate Bill 292?
- Can I resist an unlawful police entry into my home?
- Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, Is A License To Carry A Handgun A Registration Of The Handgun?
- How Does Indiana Senate Bill 506, Identifying Places A License To Carry A Handgun Is Not Required, Related to Other Firearms?
- How has the “Person’s Property” Exception To The Need For A License Changed Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, If At All?
- Can I Carry A Handgun On And At Another Person’s Real Property Without A License To Carry Under Indiana Senate Bill 506?
- Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, Can A Friend Of Another State Carry A Handgun At A Training Course With Me Here In Indiana If He or She Does Not Have A License In His or Her Home State That Would Be Recognized For Reciprocal Carry?
- Does Indiana Senate Bill 506 Change The Law To Take A Gun To A Dealer For Repair If A Person Does Not Possess A License?
- The Five Most Common Mistakes Federal Fiream License Holders or FFLs (LICENSEES) Make: Keep Your FFL And Business Out Of The Line Of Fire.
- How is the term of art “reasonably believes” defined and applied under Indiana’s self-defense statutes given the General Assembly’s adoption of the no-retreat doctrine that allows one to stand his or her ground?
- Can I exercise deadly force, assert my right to remain silent, and still have a jury consider the self-defense justification?
- 5 Universal Hallmarks Of A Good Attorney-Client Relationship
- Returning Firearms Seized by Law Enforcement Following Disposition of a Criminal Case
- Seven Things FFLs Need To Know Before Or After A Hurricane Hits
- Does The Legal Justification To Use Deadly Force Apply To Animal Attacks?
- An Ordinary Person, Accomplishing An Extraordinary Thing: Three Things I Learned From A Chance Encounter With Dick Heller, Plaintiff in Heller v. Washington, D. C.
- Can a Jury Return a Not Guilty for a Defendant Charged with Carrying a Handgun Without a License If The Facts Show It Was Necessary?
- Something Old, Something New – Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1
- State Protective Orders and Federal Brady Disqualification: Keeping Guns Out of the Domestic Violence Dynamic
- Gun Law 101: Fact or Fiction
- Do I Have To Disclose My Ownership Of Firearms To My Doctor If Asked On Medical Paperwork?
- Indiana May “Open” For Gun Business: Welcome to Your New Home?
- A gun that can no longer shoot is still a gun for purposes of a felony illegally possessing this firearm.
- Proposed New Federal Gun Laws
- What’s New in the Indiana Firearms Arena
General Law
- Technology and Depositions: How do they work?
- Depositions: The Five Universal Rules
- Effectively Communicating With Your Attorney
- Court Orders and Contempt
- Denial of a Speedy Criminal Trial: Cause for Discharge of the Charges?
- Ways to Get off to a Bad Start with Judges, Attorneys, and Court Staff: Don’t Hurt Your Day in Court
- Chains of Communication: Who Can Communicate during Litigation?
- Why Two Attorneys (or Legal Assistants or Paralegals) May Attend Your Trial/Hearing
- Continuance and Withdrawals: Notification and Time to Hire New Counsel
- Technology in the Court Room: A Recent Indiana Supreme Court Order
- Gathering Information: How to Reach Third-Parties
- When does blogging cross the line from Free Speech, to criminally punishable?
- Miranda Warnings: “Public Safety Exception”
Grandparents Visitation
- Grandparent Visitation: Defining the Amount Time
- Grandparent Visitation: When is it appropriate, and what are the limits on how much?
Guardianship
- Guardianships: The Who, What, When, and Why
Hidden Assets in Divorce
- Finding Hidden Assets in Divorce: The Role of a Private Investigator
Indiana Gun Laws
- Indiana Gun Laws 101: What's New?
- Why Is State Preemption Of Firearms Law Controversial Under Indiana Senate Bill 292?
- Can I resist an unlawful police entry into my home?
- How is the term of art “reasonably believes” defined and applied under Indiana’s self-defense statutes given the General Assembly’s adoption of the no-retreat doctrine that allows one to stand his or her ground?
- A gun that can no longer shoot is still a gun for purposes of a felony illegally possessing this firearm.
- What’s New in the Indiana Firearms Arena
Indiana Senate Bill 292
- Indiana Gun Laws 101: What's New?
- Why Is State Preemption Of Firearms Law Controversial Under Indiana Senate Bill 292?
Indiana Senate Bill 506
- Indiana Gun Laws 101: What's New?
- Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, Is A License To Carry A Handgun A Registration Of The Handgun?
- How Does Indiana Senate Bill 506, Identifying Places A License To Carry A Handgun Is Not Required, Related to Other Firearms?
- How has the “Person’s Property” Exception To The Need For A License Changed Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, If At All?
- Can I Carry A Handgun On And At Another Person’s Real Property Without A License To Carry Under Indiana Senate Bill 506?
- Under Indiana Senate Bill 506, Can A Friend Of Another State Carry A Handgun At A Training Course With Me Here In Indiana If He or She Does Not Have A License In His or Her Home State That Would Be Recognized For Reciprocal Carry?
- Does Indiana Senate Bill 506 Change The Law To Take A Gun To A Dealer For Repair If A Person Does Not Possess A License?
Interstate Transportation
- Gun Law 101: Fact or Fiction
Legal Separation
- Legal Separation As A Consideration For Older Couples: Maximizing the Quality of Life
- Filing Legal Separation: The Process and Results
Mediation
- Understanding the Psychology of Mediation, You May Not, But Should
- The Three Most Common Objections Made During Trial Testimony
Parental Rights
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines: Proposed Changes Moving Forward
- Artificial Insemination and Parental Rights and Obligations
- Opportunity for Additional Parenting Time: What is the New Standard?
Paternity
- What is Paternity? How Do We Establish Paternity Of Our Child In Indiana?
- How to Establish Paternity, And the Rest of the Story
- Who is a “Family Member” for Purposes of the First Right of Refusal in Parenting Time
- Accepting Paternity: Raising a Biologically Unrelated Child
- Indiana Parenting Time Guidelines: Proposed Changes Moving Forward
- Paternity Actions: Which Last Name Does the Child Receive?
Pet Custody
- Rover: Pet Custody In Divorce
Prenuptial Agreements
- The Impact of Prenuptial Agreements: How They Factor into Dissolution Property Divisions?
Protective Orders
- Once a Protective Order (PO) is issued, how does local law enforcement know?
- Violating a Protective Order: Can the Victim become the Prosecuted?
- Facts and Circumstances Justifying the Issuance of A Protective Order
Real Estate
- Your “Home”work: The Seven Most Important Things To Consider And Mistakes To Avoid When Purchasing A Home.
Self-defense
- Does The Legal Justification To Use Deadly Force Apply To Animal Attacks?
- Can a Jury Return a Not Guilty for a Defendant Charged with Carrying a Handgun Without a License If The Facts Show It Was Necessary?
- Something Old, Something New – Indiana Senate Enrolled Act 1
Spousal Support
- My Spouse is Abusive to Me and Mean to the Kids. Can I Move Out and Home With My Parents in A Nearby State and File for Divorce There?
- The 7 Most Intimate and Personal Things Your Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know
- Job Loss and Child Support Modification in Indiana
- A Historical Perspective on Fathers' Rights to Physical Custody: What it May Mean For The Future
- Indiana “Alimony”
- You Can’t Get Blood from a Turnip: When Can Spousal Maintenance Payments Stop or be Reduced?
Supreme Court
- How to take a case to the Indiana Supreme Court or United States Supreme Court.
- Technology in the Court Room: A Recent Indiana Supreme Court Order
- Appeals Cases: An Inside Look When the Indiana Court of Appeals Come to a Place Near You!
Tort Settlement
- Tort Settlement as part of the Marital Pot?
Uncategorized
- Appealable Orders: Defining Final in an Indefinite Process

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