Advice On Divorce: How To Deal With An Alcoholic Wife

Question: My alcoholic wife’s disease has driven me to seek advice on divorce. Nothing has been filed yet, but I am increasingly concerned for my children’s safety. If my wife is intoxicated, do I have the legal right to take the children and move them away from her?

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 …

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. …

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 …

Men’s Rights: Still A Long Way to Go

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com Note: A previous divorce article discussed How Feminism Has Affected the Divorce and Child Custody Process. It wasn’t only the women’s movement that has changed the way that child custody is granted. The men’s rights movement took off after fathers got tired of being …

Divorce Laws: What Is A Divorce From Bed And Board?

Question: My question about divorce laws has to do with what I’ve heard is a “divorce from bed and board.” Can you explain what a “divorce from bed and board” is and how it is different from a regular divorce?

DadsDivorce Live: False Allegations Of Domestic Violence

Last week’s DadsDivorce Live focused on the issue of domestic violence against men. Cordell & Cordell mens divorce attorney Heather Biagi discussed with DadsDivorce.com editor Matt Allen the prevalence of claims of domestic violence used in divorce and child custody disputes. In part two of the two-part series focusing on …

DadsDivorce Live: Protecting Yourself From Domestic Violence

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and while most of the attention will be paid to abused women, DadsDivorce.com readers know all too well how prevalent domestic violence against men is. Divorced dads also know about false allegations of abuse being used against them. Claims of domestic violence are increasingly …

Myths About Women And Domestic Violence

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com It is uninformed attitudes like the ones discussed in my previous divorce article that have pigeonholed domestic violence as a women’s issue only and ignores mens rights. Research shows women in their 20s and 30s are statistically more likely to commit violence against men …

Domestic Violence Laws: Why is Female Aggression Ignored?

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com The Women’s Liberation Movement made great progress in gender equality, but at the detriment of fathers rights. A realm of law and society that the Women’s Movement severely stifled and damaged was the area of domestic violence. On the surface, this claim would seem …