Your Legal Guide Through Life’s Twists And Turns
Many Tennessee residents older than age 60 are, in increasing numbers, divorcing after decades of marriage. A late-life divorce has many different implications for adult children and retirement benefits which may be are considered marital assets. In many cases,...
Paternity issues are usually the most contentious legal battles in Tennessee. In many cases where the child is born to unwed parents, the mother may want to establish paternity in order to obtain child support for the well-being of the minor child. Determination of...
Child custody is often a sensitive and bitter battle between estranged biological parents of minor children. In many cases, a Tennessee family judge may decide that the best interest of the children is to give sole custody to one parent or joint custody with primary...
Child custody issues are important and often one of the most controversial aspects of family law cases. Determining the best interest of the child in order to decide child custody may become a tricky issue under Tennessee law. Steven C. Girsky, the founding attorney...
Many people in Clarksville, Tennessee, will agree that maintaining a happy married life, while serving in the military, is often difficult. As a result, many service members' marriages end up in a military divorce. In fact, at one point, the divorce rates among...
Many children and their custodial parents in Montgomery County are child support recipients. They may be aware that every state, including Tennessee, has its own set of child support laws and most matters pertaining to child support conform to those particular state...
If you are a father who lives in Tennessee, you should know that courts in this state no longer believe in the tender years' doctrine so often used to provide mothers with custody. Instead, the courts now consider the best interests of the child when making various...
Property division is one of the most contentious issues of a Tennessee divorce. In most disputes, a major point of argument is usually the marital home because it is often the marital asset with the highest value. While many separating spouses fight over the marital...
As noted in a previous blog, the model Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act was put forth by the Uniform Law Commission in 2006 and subsequently adopted by Tennessee to discourage and prevent the abduction of children. The act applies to both domestic and...
In 1999, some 262,000 children were abducted in the United States, 78 percent of them by family members because of child-custody battles gone awry, according to the U.S. Justice Department. All states, including Tennessee, have statutes that address child-custody and...
