Blog Posts in February, 2014

Is Nesting an Option for Your Children?

Nesting is a type of living arrangement some families adapt to during and after divorce. The concept of nesting is that the children remain in the family home while the parents take turns caring for and living with them. Parents maintain a separate residence outside of the home when they are not on parenting duty. This is a style of parenting that requires a great deal of parental cooperation and ...

Gray Divorce Has Different Challenges

When thinking about marriage in the old days, most people pictured it as black and white as the plastic groom and bride statues on the top of the wedding cake. You stayed with one marriage partner “until death do us part” and so traditionally, most saw the end of the marriage through death, some spouses perhaps too young to pass. But for marriages lasting into the Golden Years, the United States ...

The Supreme Court and Baby Veronica

In a decision that broadly touches matters of family and Native American Indian law, the Supreme Court recently reversed and sent an adoption case back to South Carolina courts for hearing. The case of Baby Veronica is well known by many. The biological father in the case, Dusten Brown, refused to provide support for either Baby Veronica or her mother. In a text message and in duly signed ...