What Can I Do If My Ex Keeps Threatening To Modify Child Custody?

Question: How can I stop my ex-wife from repeatedly threatening to modify our child custody agreement? Every time we have a disagreement, she threatens to take me back to court and to take my custody rights away from me. Is there anything I can do to protect myself legally from …

Can Parenting Style Differences Lead To A Custody Change?

Question: My ex-wife is overly critical of my parenting style because I sometimes yell at my children when they are misbehaving and let them watch scary movies with me. I am worried this might cause me to lose child custody. I never threaten, harm, or touch my children in any …

Stopping Your Ex-Wife From Filing Frivolous Motions

Question: My ex-wife keeps trying to get sole child custody by harassing me and filing frivolous motions with the court. Every few months she writes me a threatening letter and then files something with the court that is usually dismissed but still costs me attorney fees and time away from …

How To Stop Your Ex-Wife From Harassing You

Question: I need advice on divorce on how to stop my ex-wife from harassing me. For years she has caused problems by making threats against me, calling me names in front of our children, and generally harassing my family and I. I have filed complaints with the domestic relations court, …

How to keep an ex-spouse from harassing you

Question: My ex-wife and I do not get along at all. She is constantly harassing me, threatening me, texting me insulting messages, etc. I do not want to be bothered by her again and want all communication done through my attorney. How can I keep her from communicating with me?

The Problem With a Mandatory Cooling Off Period in Divorce

By Scott Trout Managing Partner, Cordell & Cordell A Nebraska bill would require therapy or counseling for couples for up to six months before a divorce could proceed if children are involved or either the husband or wife does not believe the marriage is over. State Sen. Tony Fulton’s bill …

Do stepparents have visitation and custody rights?

Question: My current wife and I are getting a divorce and we each have children from previous marriages. We have agreed to allow each other to see the other’s children and it’s an amicable divorce. However, my ex-wife is trying to keep my current wife from seeing my children once …

How can I keep my contact information from my harassing ex-wife if I have to file it with the court?

Question: The court issued an order suspending my parenting time because I would not give my address and phone number to my ex-wife who was harassing me. I haven’t seen my child in two years because of this. Is there a way for the courts to have my address and …

Confronting an Order of Protection in the Wake of a Divorce

By Natalie Bower Attorney, Cordell & Cordell, P.C. Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on orders of protection. Click here to read Part 2. It has become all too common for a man to find himself in the midst of a contested divorce case faced with a …

Laughing at Restraining Orders

Borrowing the title of a famous George Gershwin ditty, “they all laughed” when a Santa Fe, New Mexico family court judge granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) against TV talk show host David Letterman to protect a woman he had never met, never heard of, and lived 2,000 miles away …