Handling Custody Cases with Former Chief Justice Sandy Keith

Matt Allen, editor of DadsDivorce.com, visits with Sandy Keith, former chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court who has been practicing family law for 50 years. Keith is upset with the way child custody cases are handled – he won’t even use the word custody – and is proposing mandatory …

Preparing For Mediation

In Missouri parties must attend mediation if there is a dispute about child custody issues. The requirement is for two hours but parties can choose to stay longer or return for additional visits if they feel that they are on the right track to resolving their issues. Mediation is a …

What You Might Not Know About Mediation

“Divorce mediation?” “What’s that?”. Five years ago many people considering a divorce or having post-divorce conflicts would have responded in just that way. Now, people commonly seek out and may be mandated by the courts to participate in mediation. Likewise, finding a mediator just requires a flip through your local …

Tips to a Successful Mediation

In many family law cases, including divorce and modification actions, the parties opt to try and resolve their differences through mediation. In Georgia, there are quite a few judges who will order the parties to attempt resolution through mediation before the case is set to be heard by the Court.

Missouri’s Access Laws: A Model for the Nation

When a noncustodial parent is denied access to his or her child, the traditional recourse has been for that parent to file a contempt allegation with the court requesting a hearing and the court’s finding that the custodial parent is in contempt. This is often a long and drawn out …

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Alternative dispute resolution (or “ADR”) has been a hot legal topic for the past ten to twenty years. However it is not always well understood outside the legal profession. At its most basic level, alternative dispute resolution is any process which is used to resolve a case short of a …

Ask a Lawyer: Equal parenting time

Question: I have been divorced for a couple of years now. The order in my case refers to “liberal” parenting time for me (the father) and spells out the every-other-weekend schedule as a minimum. I have worked with my ex-spouse to get up to a point where I have both …