Your Legal Guide Through Life’s Twists And Turns
You've decided to get a divorce, and now you're talking to your divorce lawyer for the first time at a meeting in his or her Clarksville offices. The thing is, you have no idea what you're supposed to talk about. All you know is that you want to get out of your...
It's not uncommon for a Tennessee mother or father to get behind on child support. It's rare, however, that a parent fails to pay child support on purpose. Usually, late child support payments happen because of some kind of financial difficulty. Regardless how it...
In today's world, open adoptions are more the norm than the exception. Many adoptive parents allow the birth parents to be involved in the life of the child. This is particularly true when the adoption is made between family members. If your child is adopted and you...
Whether they were married to the mother of their children or not, every single father who participates in his children's lives has his own way of spending time with them. Questions about how fathers spend time with their children, however, definitely makes one wonder...
Not all spouses are friendly, and some are physically abusive. Tennessee parents who divorced the mother or father of their children due to physical abuse will probably be afraid to leave their children with their ex-spouse during scheduled parental visitation time....
When two spouses own a business together, a divorce, with its ensuing financial split, can become even more complicated. Added difficulties may arise when there are other owners in addition to the spouses. Tennessee divorce law operates under the equitable...
One of the reasons it's so helpful to have an attorney handle your divorce is because of all the issues that need to be addressed in the process. Lay persons who've never been through a divorce before usually do not have enough experience to know all the things that...
The truth is, for the purposes of everyday life, many stepchildren already live as though they were adopted by their stepparent. Formalizing this arrangement legally can make a lot of sense, enabling the stepparent to participate fully in decisions about healthcare or...
Even though Tennessee spouses enter into their marriages with the idea of "until death do us part," this may not be the case for every marriage. Indeed, sometimes spouses reach an impasse – a moment when they realize that nothing can be done to repair their...
When a military servicemember and his or her spouse get a divorce, the spouse will have the right to receive a share of the servicemember's retirement benefits in many cases. As such, most servicemembers and their spouses will want to gain a deeper understanding of...
