What Do We Do About Fido?
After the trivialities such as the children, the house, and the retirement are properly divided, some parties to a divorce face a daunting task – what to do about the pets? Often, a pet means the entire world to one…
What Spouses Say About One Another at Consultations
Of course I would never breach any confidences but I have been meeting with husbands and wives for coming on a decade now, and I have happened upon a certain pattern, which I find fascinating for a number of reasons.…
The End of Affordable Alimony
A warning to all of those who will pay or receive alimony starting in 2018! The new tax plan proposed by the GOP and making its way through House committee now would have an immediate impact upon how alimony payments…
What to do if you are the Victim of Domestic Violence
First, make sure you and your children are safe. Do not wait for your abuser to “calm down". Just because your abuser has temporarily ceased his or her attack does not mean they are finished or that you are safe. Too…
Mental Illness and Child Custody in the R.I. Family Court
What is the Family Court to do with a mentally ill parent? Not one with a 10mg prescription for generalized anxiety (who isn’t anxious now-a-days, after all) but the kind who has recently had an involuntary stint in a hospital.…
The Intuitive Child
Children hear, see, feel and understand differently. For children, Elmo is president and the entire week is scheduled for: Eat and Play. Children of parents suffering through the hell of a child custody battle tend to know more about the…
Fer Cryin’ Out Loud!
It can be difficult to impress a Family Court judge. Generally speaking they are well-attuned to lies, exaggerations, and general nonsense. They have heard it all - and they are weary. Imagine it like being the principal of an elementary…
WHAT NOT TO DO!
A judge I really admire says that the Family Court is like a toxic swamp and that only a select few know where the rocks are to jump across. This blog is here to get you across the swamp. Here…
Shop Around
If you are in need of a Family Law attorney, you're stressed. Maybe you are getting a divorce; either the divorce you need terribly and RIGHT THIS MINUTE RIGHT NOW TOMORROW, or the divorce is something that is happening to…
Hopelessness and Birthday Parties
Pacing the halls of the Family Court, ducking hurled shoes, deaf to hurled swears and the occasional voodoo curse (usually from one party to another, and only sometimes from a judge to an attorney or two…) with the tension, the…