Not everyone knows exactly what a deposition is: Instrument of torture used in the Middle Ages to see if someone was a witch? One of the forms you sign when you apply for a mortgage? Name of the trendiest new…
The most commonly-asked question by a brand new client visiting a family law office is some version of, “How long is my case going to take?”. Or, “When can I finally be free of my wife (or husband)?". Or, “What’s…
Should you find yourself in the RI Family Court you have unknowingly and unintentionally become part of quite a process. A process that I hope you are coming to understand a bit better with each pithy blog post. One part…
A fellow Family Law attorney told the following anecdote, and I think it encapsulates the Family Court experience (n.b. “standing” means the right to bring a case, i.e. either parent of a child has standing to file a custody case…
In Family Court, the yelling lawyer is the losing lawyer. Any legal argument that can rest upon its own reason need not be screamed. It can be given at any decibel and be perfectly effective. Judges are not juries. Judges…
Short answer: depends on the child! The marital covenant isn’t what it used to be. Infidelity (of all kinds) has become so commonplace that RI Family Court judges will often shrug it off. He cheated on her. She emptied the…
Bring an open mind. We know, we know. There are things you want. Things you are worried about. Things you cannot do without. Your world has been turned around and you are just learning to pivot to an entirely different…
Family lawyers spend their entire day (and most of their night) focusing on their client's families with precious little attention given to their own. On most days, I personally spend only a little over an hour with my own family,…
It is the great human tragedy to fall in love with someone just long enough to create a human being and thereafter come to hate the other parent so perfectly that you would do anything real or imagined to cause…
Many of us who are part of the Family Law section of the Rhode Island Bar Association are actually quite wonderful to one another. At least when the parties aren't looking. Most of the Family Law attorneys who practice everyday…