How are Pets Handled in Divorce
Want to know what’s a burning topic of interest among the sheeple divorce lawyers out there these days? How are pets handled in divorce. Please. This is a real snippet…
Want to know what’s a burning topic of interest among the sheeple divorce lawyers out there these days? How are pets handled in divorce. Please. This is a real snippet…
Utah is (at least trying) to make child custody litigation less expensive and time-consuming with a relatively new rule (as of February 2014, when this blog posting was originally published):…
Can step-parents get custody or visitation of a child who is neither his/her natural nor adopted child in Utah? The short answer is that it’s legally possible, but just how…
By Scott Carter, CMHC Typically, when people think of narcissism, they think of people who are full of themselves and even people that love themselves more than anyone else. The…
When an assistant of mine was eight years old she was left in charge of her younger siblings (one of them 6 years old and the other two a pair…
Trial courts in Utah are authorized to interview children in child custody disputes (Utah Code Section 30-3-310(1)(e)). Most courts, however, refuse to do it, and instead usually order ruinously expensive…
Divorce can be, and for most people, usually is to one degree or another overwhelming, complicated, and expensive. Many people choose to hire an attorney to represent them in divorce…
Some might say that Utah is backwards, a little too old fashioned for these modern times. “After all,” some think, “as long as sexual intercourse occurs between two consenting adults,…
“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.” — John Rawls You being fair and honest in…
It would be a voluntary organization. Not everyone would need to join the cooperative, but those who do: Would have to have a minimum level of expertise, certain minimum qualifications,…
At the outset, know this: I am not anti-mediation. I am a trained mediator. I earnestly participate in mediation conferences with my divorce clients. Notwithstanding, the mediation profession at large…
There is much to know regarding mediation and family law, not all of it pleasant. Now that mediation is entrenched in the practice of law (particularly in family law), everyone…
Revenge Porn Is a Crime in Utah What is revenge porn, you ask? A form of non-consensual pornography—not that the acts depicted were non-consensual, but that their distribution after the fact was. If, for…
PROTECTION FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN UTAH Numbers provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reveal that one in three women in Utah will experience domestic violence, compared to…
Though Utah is a no-fault divorce state, and divorces are routinely—and almost exclusively—granted for “irreconcilable differences,” infidelity in Utah can still wind up costing you in divorce. The Utah Code…
As would be expected, family law actions are the perfect breeding ground for “he said she said” scenarios. Anyone who has been in a relationship that has ended poorly knows…
There are many points of contention in a divorce action, from child custody to asset and debt distribution. After child custody, one of the most contentious issues in a divorce…