Family law is a legal practice area that focuses on issues involving family relationships, such as adoption, divorce, and child custody, among others. Attorneys practicing family law can represent clients in family court proceedings or in related negotiations and can also draft important legal documents such as court petitions or property agreements. Some family law attorneys even specialize in adoption, paternity, emancipation, or other matters not usually related to divorce.
Alimony The purpose of alimony is to prevent the couple who has less income from being affected by economic injustice after the divorce. For example, the former spouse may have chosen to give up occupation to support the family and take time to develop their professional functions.
Divorce There are different types of divorce, including No-Fault Divorce, Conversion Divorce and Fault Divorce.
Visitation Rights Visitation right refers to the right granted by the court to a parent who has no custody of the child to visit his or her child regularly. Normally, only after the court heard the case and considered that the parent’s visit will seriously endanger the child’s physical, mental, moral, or emotional health, the […]
Pre-Marriage/Post-Marriage Agreements As the name implies, these two agreements are a common agreement between the spouses before and after marriage. The prenuptial agreement will set out the details of the distribution of real estate, property, commercial property and debt after divorce.
Protection Orders A protection order is a civil protection order. Although each state may have different names for the protection order, the purpose is the same: the abusive party received an order signed by the judge, ordering the abusive party cannot be anywhere in public or private near the abused party.
Child Support The court usually calculates the amount of child support based on the income of both parents, unless someone can prove that the standard is unfair or not applicable in their case.
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