Protecting Your Child From Your Ex’s Abusive Boyfriend

By Christian D. Barnard Divorce Lawyer, Cordell & Cordell If your ex-wife’s new boyfriend is verbally or physically abusing your child and you are concerned for your child’s mental and physical safety and wellbeing, most jurisdictions have a process through which you can ask the court to award you emergency …

Money Made Easy: Is Now A Good Time To Refinance?

With interest rates so low is now a good time to refinance or are there disadvantages to refinancing? Financial adviser Dan Danford addresses the costs associated with refinancing (new appraisal, new title company, etc.) but says this is the best time to refinance in the last 50 years. Danford, CFP®, …

Ex-Wife Ignores Child Custody Orders

Question: My ex-wife and I share child custody, but she repeatedly ignores the court orders. She will bring my children around certain family members that the court has ordered her not to because of their criminal past. She also denies my court-ordered communication with our child and sometimes gives me …

Using Wife’s Behavior To Gain Child Custody

Question: I’m looking for advice on divorce to help formulate a legal strategy to enhance my child custody case. My wife has committed acts of domestic violence against me that have been documented with pictures of scratches and 911 emergency calls. She is also attending therapy and counseling for depression. …

Commingling Separate and Community Property

If you and your spouse have decided to call it quits on your marriage, you’ll be joining the line of about 50 percent of other couples that decide to go their separate ways. The process of a divorce is not an easy one, and usually the hardest part of it …

Proving Common Law Marriage To Receive Alimony

Question: I cohabited with my ex-girlfriend for three years before we broke up. She is now threatening to take me to court to prove common law marriage in order to receive alimony. We have never presented ourselves as a married couple, and we only have one joint account together. Will …

Enforcing Verbal Child Custody Agreements

Question: My ex-wife and I have operated off a 50-50 verbal child custody agreement since our divorce several years ago. Our divorce decree only gave me parenting time every other weekend so our verbal agreement really benefited my children and I. Now she says she wants to revert back to …

The Divorced Dads Guide: Handling Child Custody Exchanges

A collaboration between DadsDivorce.com and SingleDad.com, The Divorced Dads Guide is a series of videos featuring helpful parenting tips for single dads facing the unique challenges presented to them post-divorce. First in this series of videos is “Exchanging The Kids.” Listen to Matt Allen, editor of DadsDivorce.com, and Richard “RJ” …

Protecting Children From A CPS Investigation

Question: My wife and I are being investigated by Child Protective Services because of a non-physical domestic violence incident that was blown wildly out of proportion. We recently learned CPS is taking us to court forcing us to participate in their “services” or else we will lose our children. Can …

How Do I Get Visitation Rights During The Separation Period?

Question: I need divorce advice on child custody laws and being allowed visitation rights to see my children during the separation process. My wife has kicked me out of the marital home while we decide if we want to divorce. During this time she often refuses to let me see …