Divorce with Decency

158 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY bills for these moms when dad didn’t pay his child support. To no one’s surprise, they found that it wa ...

The Legal Issues 159 obligations. The result can be that we divorce lawyers are wit- nessing an overall increase in custody batt ...

160 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY Under the old rule, even if a nice guy ex-husband had wanted to continue carrying his ex-wife on his me ...

The Legal Issues 161 Divorce is one occasion where a woman can, for free, take back her maiden name. Ordinarily, if you want to ...

162 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY divorce came head to head with our society’s spiraling divorce rate and its attendant effect of jamming ...

The Legal Issues 163 sioners on Uniform State Laws states that the premarital agree- ment may contain the following: • A speci ...

164 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY Prenuptials are also popular among people who have been divorced a time or two and have been through th ...

The Legal Issues 165 violence crimes against women were reported to the police each week. Not surprisingly, this tragic state of ...

166 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY • Develop a code word with your children, neighbors, and friends that lets them know that you need to ...

The Legal Issues 167 Paternity A father is a banker provided by nature. —French proverb In Hawai‘i, about one-third of all child ...

168 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY marriages. In these states, one automatically becomes legally mar- ried following an established statut ...

169 ChAPtEr 7 Case Histories, Anecdotes, and War Stories You never can tell about a marriage from the outside.... Some couples h ...

170 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY This does, of course, make for great theater. Think of the hate- filled duel played out between Michael ...

Case Histories, Anecdotes, and War Stories 171 People feel they have no other way to strike back. I’ve actually seen people phys ...

172 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY these incidents alone totaled two lawyers, three ex-wives, and two relatives killed, and an additional ...

Case Histories, Anecdotes, and War Stories 173 than the result—which inevitably seemed to be Beverly getting slapped or beaten. ...

174 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY have a hard time seriously believing that they themselves ever actually have to follow orders—even cour ...

Case Histories, Anecdotes, and War Stories 175 treated through active participation in anger management therapy (i.e., once an a ...

176 DIVorCe wItH DeCenCY When the dust settled (unfortunately with my client no longer present), the judge then proceeded to rec ...

Case Histories, Anecdotes, and War Stories 177 During Papa Bob’s initial case in chief, he presented no real “smoking guns” to f ...