Augusta Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Top 4 D’s to successfully recover from divorce
The 4 D's will help fight divorce
What do you need to successfully recover from your divorce?
The same objectives you need to succeed at anything whether it is raising children, having a good marriage or relationship, increasing productivity at work or finding a hot guy with an Italian accent and wonderful tan lines who kisses your toes. Hey, these 4 D’s work for everything (and I mean everything!) Try it!
1. Desire-
First you have to know what you want. You’re probably saying, “I don’t know what I want.” Then I’ll call you a liar. Not to be mean, but to force you to realize that you do know what you want. If you don’t know, then who does? This is your divorce, your goal, your life. What’s your desire? To be free of your ex-spouse? To live by the beach? To get a PhD in underwater basket weaving? We all have some desire, if it is for a cheesecake with fresh strawberries or to end world hunger. What’s your desire?
2. Dedication
Be dedicated to pursuing the perfect pair of stiletto summer sandals for 50% off or to have higher self-esteem after a spouse cheats. Know that if you want it, it can happen in due time.
3. Discipline
Do what you have to do to succeed. That may mean spending another Saturday night at home because you know you’re not ready to date so soon after your divorce and you need the alone time. It will take discipline to receive your goals but that discipline always serves you well. If you want to raise your self esteem by becoming healthier, well, ya gotta do some physical activity. If you want to have a great recovery from divorce that means having the discipline to reach out to others, research and read ways for you to become a better person after your divorce.
4. Determination
The dictionary states that determination is the act of coming to a decision. Once you make the decision that you want to successfully recover from your divorce, you can go forth with your head held high, knowing that you will succeed at your goal.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer - Realtor offers free divorce with home
Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer - Realtor offers free divorce with home
HUELVA, Spain, April 24 (UPI) -- A Spanish real estate company is offering a free divorce lawyer as an incentive to couples who purchase three-bedroom homes in Huelva province.
Officials with Geimsa realtors said the deal is aimed at couples who have been postponing divorce because they can't afford new homes, Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported.
"A divorce is very expensive," said Vanesa Contioso of Geimsa. "So we are offering new clients the free use of our lawyers to handle the process."
The deal applies to married couples who purchase three-bedroom homes for at least $89,000 in Huelva province.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
HUELVA, Spain, April 24 (UPI) -- A Spanish real estate company is offering a free divorce lawyer as an incentive to couples who purchase three-bedroom homes in Huelva province.
Officials with Geimsa realtors said the deal is aimed at couples who have been postponing divorce because they can't afford new homes, Britain's The Daily Telegraph reported.
"A divorce is very expensive," said Vanesa Contioso of Geimsa. "So we are offering new clients the free use of our lawyers to handle the process."
The deal applies to married couples who purchase three-bedroom homes for at least $89,000 in Huelva province.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - For better or worse, DIY divorces crowding the dockets
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - For better or worse, DIY divorces crowding the dockets
Economic pressures mean less people are using divorce lawyers
By Steve Campbell -McClatchy Newspapers
D-Day starts at 8AM five days a week at the district clerk's office.
After completing a mandatory 61-day "cooling-off period" for divorces, dozens of men and women stream past a security officer toward a warren of cubicles.
You can see their determination; this is the final step in a daunting domestic drama.
Three men take seats shoulder to shoulder under a sign reading "325." Their paperwork is quickly "proved up" by a clerk, who then shepherds them to state District Judge Judith Wells' 325th District Court overlooking the Trinity River. The clerk gives one snippet of nonlegal advice: "Whatever you do, don't call her Judge Judy."
By 9:20 AM, the three men have their final divorce decrees. And they pulled it off without a hitch - or a lawyer.
They are part of a growing trend at the Tarrant County Family Law Center and courthouses nationwide as a slumping economy prompts more people to save money by representing themselves.
In 2008, the Tarrant County district clerk's office recorded 9,681 divorces; 6,405 of those, or 66 percent, included at least one pro se defendant. That's up from 58 percent in 2004. (Pro se is a Latin term meaning "for oneself.")
The crush of cases is straining courthouse staffs and judges who have to guide "self-represented litigants" through the justice system while holding them to the same legal standards as attorneys.
For 36-year-old Terrance, who asked that his last name not be used, getting his final divorce decree from Wells was a huge relief.
Suffering from kidney disease, the Fort Worth father subsists on $600 a month in disability payments and lives with his mother. But after two lawyers "clued" him in on legal costs starting at $700, he hired himself.
Terrance paid $149 for legal forms from DivorceWriter.com. He also calculated his child support at $120 a month, and his now-ex-wife agreed to it. "You hear horror stories, but it wasn't like that," he said. "It was a lot easier and quicker than I thought it would be."
In the current recession, many unhappily married couples are sticking it out for economic reasons. But thousands more will be splitting the sheets, just as they always do when times get tough.
"It's a general rule of thumb in family law that the divorce rate rises as the economy worsens," said James Paulsen, a family law professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. "More marriages fall apart over money."
Legal observers say pro se cases have increased in the past decade as more people turned to the Internet for self-help. But Paulsen said that's not the only factor.
"I would say it is related to the economy even without the current economic problems. Lawyers are just getting more and more expensive," he said.
A growth industry
Divorce is a reliable industry in Texas.
In 2007, there were 176,305 marriages and 77,806 divorces, according to preliminary numbers from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
There are no statewide records for pro se divorce cases, according to Carl Reynolds of the Texas Office of Court Administration.
But, just as in Tarrant County, district clerk offices in Harris, Travis and Bexar counties report a substantial rise in the number of pro se cases over the last five years.
"It's to the point that all of us are struggling with it," Wells said. "And we have a committee going right now trying to determine how we assist these people or if we assist these people in getting their divorce. It's a real time crunch. It eats a lot of time for everybody that is involved from clerks on up to the judges."
Self-representation was signed into U.S. law by George Washington as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
But an adage often attributed to Abraham Lincoln sums it up for a lot of lawyers: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."
But Honest Abe wasn't accounting for a digital world.
Today's pro se cases are part of the "do-it-yourself, Home Depot-style generation" that thinks it has the mental and Internet skills to pull it off or doesn't have the money to do it any other way, said Sharon Wayland, director of the Tarrant County Law Library.
"They come down here like it's the DMV to change the address on their driver's license," Wayland said. "They think they're going to get a divorce by filling out a couple forms. It's just not that simple."
Lisa Hoppes, a Bedford attorney and president of the Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association, said many people can do it but not everyone should.
"There's a big difference between pro se's and those who are young kids and don't have property who opt to do it themselves. Then there is the segment that backs up the court worse - the people who hang on to assets and have something to fight about," Hoppes said.
Wells said that the economy has driven up pro se numbers in recent months and that she's not just seeing poor couples in her court.
Some people "are overburdened with debt; it's not that they don't have money. When you look at their overall income, it's the type of joint income that I think they should be able to afford an attorney," she said. "But they've maxed out their credit cards; they have a house payment that is too big and car payments. There's no discretionary income left over to hire an attorney."
Less complicated means less cost
Fort Worth attorney Rod Marx of Marx, Altman & Johnson, which specializes in "middle-class divorces," said the rise in pro se cases has cut into his business.
"We have lost business, but I'm finding we are doing a lot of corrections for pro se forms gone bad," Marx said. "We've picked up business fixing their mistakes."
Marx said he provides a reliable service for a fair price. His firm charges $225 for a divorce when no children or property is involved.
"Fees go up with complications, and if you have those you should be using a lawyer," he said. "With children involved, we charge at least $425. Adversarial cases are going to be in the thousands of dollars. Our average cost for contested cases is $2,600."
Gary Nickelson, a Fort Worth attorney and president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, said costs depend on the case.
"No kids, no property, no nothing - it's going to be cheap," he said. "But when you have kids, retirement accounts, houses and cars, it's different. I always tell people what I think it is going to cost but that my crystal ball is broke."
But not all pro se cases are so easy or amicable.
People who are already emotionally frayed by a failed marriage are easily angered by a system that requires an exacting paper trail, said Lisa Arnesen, an assistant family law manager with the Tarrant County clerk's office.
Court clerks are "caught in the middle" - they can't dispense legal advice but still must guide people through the maze, Arnesen said.
And when people get lost, they get frustrated.
"We have a saying down here: In criminal courts, you see the worst people on their best behavior. In civil courts, you see good people on their worst behavior," Arnesen said.
"That's why all the managers have security buttons. It's a highly emotional thing. Sometimes people are ecstatic to be getting a divorce. But if it's adversarial, it can get tense. Since they don't have an attorney, you are going to see that lashing-out."
Terrance thinks he was well-served. While Wells was reviewing his case, she noted that since he is disabled, his son would likely qualify for benefits and that could ease his child support payments.
"I was really surprised when she brought that up," he said. "I appreciated that. This worked out better than I thought it could."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Economic pressures mean less people are using divorce lawyers
By Steve Campbell -McClatchy Newspapers
D-Day starts at 8AM five days a week at the district clerk's office.
After completing a mandatory 61-day "cooling-off period" for divorces, dozens of men and women stream past a security officer toward a warren of cubicles.
You can see their determination; this is the final step in a daunting domestic drama.
Three men take seats shoulder to shoulder under a sign reading "325." Their paperwork is quickly "proved up" by a clerk, who then shepherds them to state District Judge Judith Wells' 325th District Court overlooking the Trinity River. The clerk gives one snippet of nonlegal advice: "Whatever you do, don't call her Judge Judy."
By 9:20 AM, the three men have their final divorce decrees. And they pulled it off without a hitch - or a lawyer.
They are part of a growing trend at the Tarrant County Family Law Center and courthouses nationwide as a slumping economy prompts more people to save money by representing themselves.
In 2008, the Tarrant County district clerk's office recorded 9,681 divorces; 6,405 of those, or 66 percent, included at least one pro se defendant. That's up from 58 percent in 2004. (Pro se is a Latin term meaning "for oneself.")
The crush of cases is straining courthouse staffs and judges who have to guide "self-represented litigants" through the justice system while holding them to the same legal standards as attorneys.
For 36-year-old Terrance, who asked that his last name not be used, getting his final divorce decree from Wells was a huge relief.
Suffering from kidney disease, the Fort Worth father subsists on $600 a month in disability payments and lives with his mother. But after two lawyers "clued" him in on legal costs starting at $700, he hired himself.
Terrance paid $149 for legal forms from DivorceWriter.com. He also calculated his child support at $120 a month, and his now-ex-wife agreed to it. "You hear horror stories, but it wasn't like that," he said. "It was a lot easier and quicker than I thought it would be."
In the current recession, many unhappily married couples are sticking it out for economic reasons. But thousands more will be splitting the sheets, just as they always do when times get tough.
"It's a general rule of thumb in family law that the divorce rate rises as the economy worsens," said James Paulsen, a family law professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. "More marriages fall apart over money."
Legal observers say pro se cases have increased in the past decade as more people turned to the Internet for self-help. But Paulsen said that's not the only factor.
"I would say it is related to the economy even without the current economic problems. Lawyers are just getting more and more expensive," he said.
A growth industry
Divorce is a reliable industry in Texas.
In 2007, there were 176,305 marriages and 77,806 divorces, according to preliminary numbers from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
There are no statewide records for pro se divorce cases, according to Carl Reynolds of the Texas Office of Court Administration.
But, just as in Tarrant County, district clerk offices in Harris, Travis and Bexar counties report a substantial rise in the number of pro se cases over the last five years.
"It's to the point that all of us are struggling with it," Wells said. "And we have a committee going right now trying to determine how we assist these people or if we assist these people in getting their divorce. It's a real time crunch. It eats a lot of time for everybody that is involved from clerks on up to the judges."
Self-representation was signed into U.S. law by George Washington as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
But an adage often attributed to Abraham Lincoln sums it up for a lot of lawyers: "A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."
But Honest Abe wasn't accounting for a digital world.
Today's pro se cases are part of the "do-it-yourself, Home Depot-style generation" that thinks it has the mental and Internet skills to pull it off or doesn't have the money to do it any other way, said Sharon Wayland, director of the Tarrant County Law Library.
"They come down here like it's the DMV to change the address on their driver's license," Wayland said. "They think they're going to get a divorce by filling out a couple forms. It's just not that simple."
Lisa Hoppes, a Bedford attorney and president of the Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association, said many people can do it but not everyone should.
"There's a big difference between pro se's and those who are young kids and don't have property who opt to do it themselves. Then there is the segment that backs up the court worse - the people who hang on to assets and have something to fight about," Hoppes said.
Wells said that the economy has driven up pro se numbers in recent months and that she's not just seeing poor couples in her court.
Some people "are overburdened with debt; it's not that they don't have money. When you look at their overall income, it's the type of joint income that I think they should be able to afford an attorney," she said. "But they've maxed out their credit cards; they have a house payment that is too big and car payments. There's no discretionary income left over to hire an attorney."
Less complicated means less cost
Fort Worth attorney Rod Marx of Marx, Altman & Johnson, which specializes in "middle-class divorces," said the rise in pro se cases has cut into his business.
"We have lost business, but I'm finding we are doing a lot of corrections for pro se forms gone bad," Marx said. "We've picked up business fixing their mistakes."
Marx said he provides a reliable service for a fair price. His firm charges $225 for a divorce when no children or property is involved.
"Fees go up with complications, and if you have those you should be using a lawyer," he said. "With children involved, we charge at least $425. Adversarial cases are going to be in the thousands of dollars. Our average cost for contested cases is $2,600."
Gary Nickelson, a Fort Worth attorney and president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, said costs depend on the case.
"No kids, no property, no nothing - it's going to be cheap," he said. "But when you have kids, retirement accounts, houses and cars, it's different. I always tell people what I think it is going to cost but that my crystal ball is broke."
But not all pro se cases are so easy or amicable.
People who are already emotionally frayed by a failed marriage are easily angered by a system that requires an exacting paper trail, said Lisa Arnesen, an assistant family law manager with the Tarrant County clerk's office.
Court clerks are "caught in the middle" - they can't dispense legal advice but still must guide people through the maze, Arnesen said.
And when people get lost, they get frustrated.
"We have a saying down here: In criminal courts, you see the worst people on their best behavior. In civil courts, you see good people on their worst behavior," Arnesen said.
"That's why all the managers have security buttons. It's a highly emotional thing. Sometimes people are ecstatic to be getting a divorce. But if it's adversarial, it can get tense. Since they don't have an attorney, you are going to see that lashing-out."
Terrance thinks he was well-served. While Wells was reviewing his case, she noted that since he is disabled, his son would likely qualify for benefits and that could ease his child support payments.
"I was really surprised when she brought that up," he said. "I appreciated that. This worked out better than I thought it could."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Lawyer - Divorce Disputes: What Role Did Religion Play?
Augusta Military Divorce Lawyer - Divorce Disputes: What Role Did Religion Play?
(WXYZ) - Some women within the Detroit area Orthodox Jewish community say they may not be treated fairly in the family court system.
Through divorce proceedings, some mothers say they are forced to pay child support they can’t afford.
These mothers say their former husbands are even resorting to various courtroom tactics to restrict access to their own children. Heather Catallo investigates.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
(WXYZ) - Some women within the Detroit area Orthodox Jewish community say they may not be treated fairly in the family court system.
Through divorce proceedings, some mothers say they are forced to pay child support they can’t afford.
These mothers say their former husbands are even resorting to various courtroom tactics to restrict access to their own children. Heather Catallo investigates.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Americans ambivalent about divorce
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Americans ambivalent about divorce
SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 24 (UPI) -- Single parenthood became prevalent in the 20th century but there is ambivalent acceptance of divorce rather than an embrace of it, U.S. researchers said.
Margaret L. Usdansky of Syracuse University in New York examined depictions of single-parent families in samples of popular magazine and social science journals.
The study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, showed that critical depictions of divorce plummeted in magazines and journals during the 20th century. The decline was not driven by any increase in favorable depictions of divorce, but the virtual disappearance of normative debate over whether divorce was good or bad reflected an ambivalent acceptance of divorce.
There was even less evidence of any softening of attitudes toward non-marital childbearing during the 20th century. Popular and scholarly articles were as likely to include negative depictions of non-marital childbearing at the end of the century as they had at its beginning.
"My findings raise an important question as to why Americans form single-parent families at very high rates and yet continue to express deep ambivalence toward them," Usdansky said in a statement. "Couples in many European countries form single-parent families at similarly high rates but are less worried about the result. Americans place more emphasis on marriage as a personal goal and as the ideal setting in which to raise children."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 24 (UPI) -- Single parenthood became prevalent in the 20th century but there is ambivalent acceptance of divorce rather than an embrace of it, U.S. researchers said.
Margaret L. Usdansky of Syracuse University in New York examined depictions of single-parent families in samples of popular magazine and social science journals.
The study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, showed that critical depictions of divorce plummeted in magazines and journals during the 20th century. The decline was not driven by any increase in favorable depictions of divorce, but the virtual disappearance of normative debate over whether divorce was good or bad reflected an ambivalent acceptance of divorce.
There was even less evidence of any softening of attitudes toward non-marital childbearing during the 20th century. Popular and scholarly articles were as likely to include negative depictions of non-marital childbearing at the end of the century as they had at its beginning.
"My findings raise an important question as to why Americans form single-parent families at very high rates and yet continue to express deep ambivalence toward them," Usdansky said in a statement. "Couples in many European countries form single-parent families at similarly high rates but are less worried about the result. Americans place more emphasis on marriage as a personal goal and as the ideal setting in which to raise children."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Saudi Arabia grants text-message divorce
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Saudi Arabia grants text-message divorce
A Jeddah court finds a Saudi Arabian man's act of divorcing his wife via text-message to be in compliance with the country's law.
The unnamed Saudi citizen, who was in Iraq when he sent the text, immediately called two men who had witnessed his marriage to inform them of his decision.
The court recognized the Saudi man's decision after making sure that the two witnesses had been duly informed, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The strict law observed in Saudi Arabia allows a man to divorce his wife by simply saying "I divorce you" three times.
Women on the other hand are permitted to take their case to court but their divorce is not guaranteed.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
A Jeddah court finds a Saudi Arabian man's act of divorcing his wife via text-message to be in compliance with the country's law.
The unnamed Saudi citizen, who was in Iraq when he sent the text, immediately called two men who had witnessed his marriage to inform them of his decision.
The court recognized the Saudi man's decision after making sure that the two witnesses had been duly informed, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The strict law observed in Saudi Arabia allows a man to divorce his wife by simply saying "I divorce you" three times.
Women on the other hand are permitted to take their case to court but their divorce is not guaranteed.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Lawyer - Make extra effort to prevent child-custody confrontations
Augusta Military Divorce Lawyer - Make extra effort to prevent child-custody confrontations
By Mathew B. Tully - Special to the Times
The stress of more than seven years of war has led to many military divorces — and many of these divorces involve children.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that the stressful times will pass when “it’s all over” — when your divorce or separation is final. If you have children, you’ll have a lifelong connection to your child’s other parent that extends beyond child support payments, even if your divorce or separation is “final.”
Many preventable post-divorce legal issues arise if the parents do not or cannot co-parent properly.
Let me begin by making a nonlegal point. Your children are watching and listening to what the two of you do and say to each other. While it may be extremely difficult, it is absolutely essential to remain civil with each other, at a minimum, in the presence of the children. Everything from the tone of your voice to your facial expressions and body language can trigger emotional turmoil for a child that could last a lifetime.
You should encourage, foster and facilitate parenting time with your children and their other parent in the proper setting, whether supervised, public or unrestricted. You should ensure any final agreement on custody or visitation takes into account not only the appropriate schedule today, but also the developmental needs of your children based on their age.
Be aware that the schedule may have to change over the years as the children get older and their needs change. For example, it’s unlikely that the same parenting schedule will work for both a toddler and a teenager with friends and extracurricular activities to juggle. If you can come to a general agreement now and have a road map for the future, you will likely prevent unnecessary litigation five, 10 or 15 years from now.
Communication is the key. The failure to communicate can lead to a severe breakdown in the relationship post-separation, as much as it likely led to the separation, which many of us realize too late. Don’t fear that your inability to communicate during your marriage will dictate your ability to communicate with respect to your children, however.
Children tend to become a new priority for parents when their access to them becomes limited, and the parent becomes more likely and willing to communicate about them. Consider your child’s other parent a business colleague and treat him just as you would someone in a business relationship. Keep the lines of communication open by checking with him and following through on promises.
Another way to prevent legal issues is to remember that visitation, or “parenting time,” is meant for your children, not for you — despite the fact that many parents see it the other way around.
You are visiting with the child not to help you cope or feel better, but because it’s in the best interest of your child. Accordingly, if your child is with you for only a weekend, but really would like to have some friends over on an occasional basis, allowing this may strengthen your bond with the child. Additionally, there are times when a child needs to have some alone time with you — meaning no siblings or significant others. Once all the adults realize and understand that visitation is about the child and not about the adults, many legal and practical conflicts go away.
Naturally, your children are going to be upset about their parents’ separation. The absence of emotion would be potential cause for concern. You have to assist and support them through the process by being present and enlisting the services of counselors or therapists, if necessary.
You should not rely on your children to assist and support you. It is critical that you find a support network separate from your children because — in order to care for your children — you must first care for yourself.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
By Mathew B. Tully - Special to the Times
The stress of more than seven years of war has led to many military divorces — and many of these divorces involve children.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that the stressful times will pass when “it’s all over” — when your divorce or separation is final. If you have children, you’ll have a lifelong connection to your child’s other parent that extends beyond child support payments, even if your divorce or separation is “final.”
Many preventable post-divorce legal issues arise if the parents do not or cannot co-parent properly.
Let me begin by making a nonlegal point. Your children are watching and listening to what the two of you do and say to each other. While it may be extremely difficult, it is absolutely essential to remain civil with each other, at a minimum, in the presence of the children. Everything from the tone of your voice to your facial expressions and body language can trigger emotional turmoil for a child that could last a lifetime.
You should encourage, foster and facilitate parenting time with your children and their other parent in the proper setting, whether supervised, public or unrestricted. You should ensure any final agreement on custody or visitation takes into account not only the appropriate schedule today, but also the developmental needs of your children based on their age.
Be aware that the schedule may have to change over the years as the children get older and their needs change. For example, it’s unlikely that the same parenting schedule will work for both a toddler and a teenager with friends and extracurricular activities to juggle. If you can come to a general agreement now and have a road map for the future, you will likely prevent unnecessary litigation five, 10 or 15 years from now.
Communication is the key. The failure to communicate can lead to a severe breakdown in the relationship post-separation, as much as it likely led to the separation, which many of us realize too late. Don’t fear that your inability to communicate during your marriage will dictate your ability to communicate with respect to your children, however.
Children tend to become a new priority for parents when their access to them becomes limited, and the parent becomes more likely and willing to communicate about them. Consider your child’s other parent a business colleague and treat him just as you would someone in a business relationship. Keep the lines of communication open by checking with him and following through on promises.
Another way to prevent legal issues is to remember that visitation, or “parenting time,” is meant for your children, not for you — despite the fact that many parents see it the other way around.
You are visiting with the child not to help you cope or feel better, but because it’s in the best interest of your child. Accordingly, if your child is with you for only a weekend, but really would like to have some friends over on an occasional basis, allowing this may strengthen your bond with the child. Additionally, there are times when a child needs to have some alone time with you — meaning no siblings or significant others. Once all the adults realize and understand that visitation is about the child and not about the adults, many legal and practical conflicts go away.
Naturally, your children are going to be upset about their parents’ separation. The absence of emotion would be potential cause for concern. You have to assist and support them through the process by being present and enlisting the services of counselors or therapists, if necessary.
You should not rely on your children to assist and support you. It is critical that you find a support network separate from your children because — in order to care for your children — you must first care for yourself.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Immigrant Children in Legal Limbo
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Immigrant Children in Legal Limbo
By The Editors - The New York Times
To accompany the final article in a Times series on immigration, Room for Debate examines the situation of young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children with their parents and were raised and educated here. The article on the topic will appear over the weekend.
A series that examines the impact of immigration on American institutions.
Legislation (called the Dream Act) sponsored by Senators Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, would give some of these young immigrants a chance to become permanent residents. It would extend to those who have stayed out of trouble, graduated from high school and either finished two years of college or two years of military service, and there would be a six-year conditional status period.
We’ve asked three immigration specialists what to do about this particular immigrant population, which is estimated at one million people. The discussion also includes the perspective of two young immigrants, Prerna and Nick, who were brought to the United States by their parents and who have been here a decade or more. They asked that their last names not be used because they do not have legal papers.
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By The Editors - The New York Times
To accompany the final article in a Times series on immigration, Room for Debate examines the situation of young illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children with their parents and were raised and educated here. The article on the topic will appear over the weekend.
A series that examines the impact of immigration on American institutions.
Legislation (called the Dream Act) sponsored by Senators Richard Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, would give some of these young immigrants a chance to become permanent residents. It would extend to those who have stayed out of trouble, graduated from high school and either finished two years of college or two years of military service, and there would be a six-year conditional status period.
We’ve asked three immigration specialists what to do about this particular immigrant population, which is estimated at one million people. The discussion also includes the perspective of two young immigrants, Prerna and Nick, who were brought to the United States by their parents and who have been here a decade or more. They asked that their last names not be used because they do not have legal papers.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Georgia Military Divorve Attorney - Why divorce?
Georgia Military Divorve Attorney - Why divorce?
by malek_shoara
I don't know what is wrong with the Iranian ladies. As soon as they get out of the country they assume their husbands are responsible for bad treatment of the ladies in Iran and try to deliver all the blames from the system in Iran on their husbands.
Of course the western ladies also divorce but they usually have reasonable cause. But some of the Iranians divorce for no good reason.
I emigrated to Europe in 1986. My daughter was 12 and my son was 10. I started from zero and work hard to make life easy for my family. My ex wife did not help at all for the income of the family. I worked more hours to have certain standard of life.
The kids have grown up, both graduated with master degrees. I helped them purchase a 2 bed room apartments in a nice area very close to center of town as our family home is in a suburb. The kids decided to move to the apartment because well they wanted more independence and it was very close to their bussiness.
Every thing was fine til my wife at the time decided to live with kids. Although probably the kids did not like it, but they could not say any thing. She said to me after a few arguments that I have to move there as well. I am almost old and I need to be close to my books and my garden and there was no bedroom for us in the appartment.
Anyway we moved there and live a few months with humiliation and slept in the guestroom until I realized it is impossible for me to live there any more so I asked my wife to go back to our family home and the kids also said the same thing. But she did not agree to cut the story short. She ruined my life and the kids.
It is 8 years now and a couple of years ago we divorced. It is sad how this lady destroyed my life with stubborn thoughts after 30 years of living together. I don't think people from any country any religion do what she did.
I have seen a lots of similar divorces in Iranian community it is shame.
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by malek_shoara
I don't know what is wrong with the Iranian ladies. As soon as they get out of the country they assume their husbands are responsible for bad treatment of the ladies in Iran and try to deliver all the blames from the system in Iran on their husbands.
Of course the western ladies also divorce but they usually have reasonable cause. But some of the Iranians divorce for no good reason.
I emigrated to Europe in 1986. My daughter was 12 and my son was 10. I started from zero and work hard to make life easy for my family. My ex wife did not help at all for the income of the family. I worked more hours to have certain standard of life.
The kids have grown up, both graduated with master degrees. I helped them purchase a 2 bed room apartments in a nice area very close to center of town as our family home is in a suburb. The kids decided to move to the apartment because well they wanted more independence and it was very close to their bussiness.
Every thing was fine til my wife at the time decided to live with kids. Although probably the kids did not like it, but they could not say any thing. She said to me after a few arguments that I have to move there as well. I am almost old and I need to be close to my books and my garden and there was no bedroom for us in the appartment.
Anyway we moved there and live a few months with humiliation and slept in the guestroom until I realized it is impossible for me to live there any more so I asked my wife to go back to our family home and the kids also said the same thing. But she did not agree to cut the story short. She ruined my life and the kids.
It is 8 years now and a couple of years ago we divorced. It is sad how this lady destroyed my life with stubborn thoughts after 30 years of living together. I don't think people from any country any religion do what she did.
I have seen a lots of similar divorces in Iranian community it is shame.
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Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Landmark divorce case in UK puts pre-nuptial principle to test
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Landmark divorce case in UK puts pre-nuptial principle to test
By Megan Murphy and Sujata Das
One of Germany's wealthiest women is seeking to enforce a pre-nuptial agreement that would leave her former investment banker husband with nothing in the latest landmark divorce case to hit British courts.
Katrin Radmacher, a paper industry heiress worth an estimated £100m, claims that her estranged spouse is trying to renege on a deal made before they married in London in 1998, in which he agreed not to make a claim against her in the event of a separation.
If she is successful, the case could overturn the long-standing principle that pre-nuptial contracts, widely recognised in Europe and the US, are not legally binding in England.
Her estranged husband, Nicolas Granatino, has hired Fiona Shackleton, one of London's most feared divorce lawyers, to represent him at the Court of Appeal next week.
The case marks a bitter end for a romance that started at Tramp, the members-only nightclub in Mayfair. Mr Granatino, a French national who formerly earned as much as $470,000 a year with JPMorgan, gave up his banking career about six years ago to pursue a doctorate in biotechnology at Oxford.
The couple's marriage broke down shortly afterwards, culminating in a formal separation in 2006. He says he now expects to earn just £30,000 a year as an academic researcher and has accumulated debts totalling -several hundred thousand pounds.
Under the terms of their pre-nuptial agreement, executed under German law four months before their marriage, both parties agreed not to make any financial claim against each other if they split up.
As part of the divorce proceedings in July, a UK High Court judge ruled it would be "manifestly unfair" to hold Mr Granatino to the deal given their respective financial strength and ordered Ms Radmacher to make a one-off lump sum payment of £5.6m.
Ms Radmacher is challenging that decision in a case likely to have far-reaching consequences for other globetrotting couples who choose to make their home in London, the so-called divorce capital of the world.
Julian Lipson, a divorce lawyer at Withers in London, said: "The English courts pride themselves on protecting the financially weaker party and that will override the argument that the financially weaker spouse knew what they were signing and should be held to the bargain, even if it is a bad one."
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By Megan Murphy and Sujata Das
One of Germany's wealthiest women is seeking to enforce a pre-nuptial agreement that would leave her former investment banker husband with nothing in the latest landmark divorce case to hit British courts.
Katrin Radmacher, a paper industry heiress worth an estimated £100m, claims that her estranged spouse is trying to renege on a deal made before they married in London in 1998, in which he agreed not to make a claim against her in the event of a separation.
If she is successful, the case could overturn the long-standing principle that pre-nuptial contracts, widely recognised in Europe and the US, are not legally binding in England.
Her estranged husband, Nicolas Granatino, has hired Fiona Shackleton, one of London's most feared divorce lawyers, to represent him at the Court of Appeal next week.
The case marks a bitter end for a romance that started at Tramp, the members-only nightclub in Mayfair. Mr Granatino, a French national who formerly earned as much as $470,000 a year with JPMorgan, gave up his banking career about six years ago to pursue a doctorate in biotechnology at Oxford.
The couple's marriage broke down shortly afterwards, culminating in a formal separation in 2006. He says he now expects to earn just £30,000 a year as an academic researcher and has accumulated debts totalling -several hundred thousand pounds.
Under the terms of their pre-nuptial agreement, executed under German law four months before their marriage, both parties agreed not to make any financial claim against each other if they split up.
As part of the divorce proceedings in July, a UK High Court judge ruled it would be "manifestly unfair" to hold Mr Granatino to the deal given their respective financial strength and ordered Ms Radmacher to make a one-off lump sum payment of £5.6m.
Ms Radmacher is challenging that decision in a case likely to have far-reaching consequences for other globetrotting couples who choose to make their home in London, the so-called divorce capital of the world.
Julian Lipson, a divorce lawyer at Withers in London, said: "The English courts pride themselves on protecting the financially weaker party and that will override the argument that the financially weaker spouse knew what they were signing and should be held to the bargain, even if it is a bad one."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Childhood statelessness
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Childhood statelessness
FMR - By Maureen Lynch and Melanie Teff
"Statelessness – the non-acquisition of citizenship – can blight a child’s prospects throughout life."
Stateless infants, children and youth, through no fault of their own, inherit circumstances that limit their potential and provide, at best, an uncertain future. They are born, live and, unless they can resolve their situation, die as almost invisible people. Statelessness can also lead to poor home environments and to family separation, two important factors affecting child development.
Apart from the ways in which any person can become stateless, a child in particular can become stateless when a family migrates away from a country where citizenship is conveyed by jus sanguinis; a child has the right to citizenship of the parents’ country of origin but cannot always access it and may instead become de facto stateless in the country where they grow up. Lack of birth registration can cause statelessness. Children may not be registered because parents fear drawing attention to their own status. A child can also become stateless when a birth record is destroyed or lost and there is no other means to link them with a particular country.
Inequitable laws also create childhood statelessness. Although in the last 25 years, at least 20 countries have changed their laws to give women the right to pass their nationality to their children, the nationality of a child born to parents from different countries is still a concern when laws treat men and women differently. Where citizenship is determined exclusively by the father’s nationality, stateless fathers, single women, or women living apart from their husbands face numerous barriers to registering their children. If a woman is unable to extend citizenship to her spouse, statelessness may be imposed on her and the children. Whether parents are married or not may also determine a child’s nationality. For example, one legacy of UN peacekeeping is fatherless children – and the citizenship rights of children born to UN troops and female nationals are not always clear.
In the end, perhaps the most obvious reason why children become stateless is that they cannot act for themselves.
Protection and rights
Birth registration is the official record of a child’s birth by the state and a government’s first acknowledgement of a child’s existence. It is crucial to ensuring a culture of protection. Consider the following examples.
On the day that the child of a Burmese asylum seeker is born in a Thai hospital, the birth record is removed. The Burmese government also disavows responsibility. Not recognised by either Burma or Thailand, this child is stateless.
Children of Mauritanian refugees born in Senegal have the right to be registered as Senegalese citizens but some parents are unwilling for this to happen. They prefer to wait until they can return to Mauritania and register their children there.
Children of a Kuwaiti mother and a Bidoon – stateless – father are also Bidoon. Since a child of a divorced Kuwaiti woman or widow can theoretically acquire citizenship, there is an incentive to divorce for the sake of the child.
At a briefing on stateless children the US Congress was told about the case of a stateless family whose asylum appeal was denied was related. The five-year-old daughter was placed in a cell with her mother. The eight- and 14-year-old sisters were detained together elsewhere. The 15-year-old son was held alone. The father was separated from his family by hundreds of miles. The three-year-old was not held because she is a US citizen.
Being stateless also means not being able to access many other rights available to citizens. For stateless children, medical care may be less readily available or more costly than for others. Children without birth certificates cannot be legally vaccinated in at least 20 countries. Government assistance programmes offering medical attention to impoverished nationals, including for HIV/AIDS, may not serve stateless children.
Education is usually limited or unavailable for stateless children. Some families are told their children can attend school only if space is available after all other citizens’ children have registered; some governments feel that offering education to stateless children is too costly; in other cases, parents are forced to pay high tuition fees so children can attend private schools.
In Sabah, for example, children of migrants of Filipino and Indonesian descent with orang asing (foreigner) on their birth certificates or those without birth certificates cannot go to government school. In Thailand, the Ministry of Education is supposed to issue the Regulation on Evidence of a Child’s Birth for School Admission to honour Article 29 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child but not all children receive this document and if they do not, cannot attend class. One stateless child said, “I don’t want to pick chillies and onions in the plantation. I want to go to school. I want to wear a school uniform proudly and learn the materials in a proper classroom.”
Syria recognises the right of Kurdish children to primary education but not in their native language. To attend secondary school, they must also obtain permission from state security. Those who are maktoumeen (unregistered) do not receive their diploma from secondary school. One stateless young man with the highest marks in his high school class now sells tea in front of the University of Damascus, which he once dreamt of attending.
Passports, essential for international travel, are generally not issued to stateless children. Not having travel documents means no possibility of education abroad, travelling to visit family and relatives, or even seeking specialised medical care.
While every child is entitled to state protection against exploitation and abuse, stateless children have no such guarantee. Lack of documents proving age leaves them unprotected by child labour laws. A 13-year-old stateless girl who escaped her Thai owner said, “I was sold for less than 800 baht (US $20) to work as a housemaid…I ran away because they were going to sell me to work in the sex trade.” Law enforcement agencies cannot prosecute traffickers without proof of the age and identity of those trafficked. Some stateless children cannot be returned home without proof of nationality. If a stateless young person gets into trouble with the law and lacks proof of age, they may be prosecuted as an adult.
Recommendations
Every child should be able to develop as a full and productive citizen. “We want to be children. We want to enjoy our childhood,” explained one stateless boy. To allow these children to enjoy their childhood, the following steps should be taken: starting with the provisions of the 1961 Convention:
All states should respect the right of children to have a nationality and include provisions on non-discrimination in national citizenship laws.
Every child, whether born to married parents or not, should be registered at birth and in cases of disputed nationality states should grant citizenship if the child would otherwise be stateless.
States should make primary education free and compulsory for all children as well as provide access to health care, including immunisations, for all infants.
The practice of detaining children should be abolished.
States should enforce laws relating to the minimum employment age and assist efforts to prevent child labour, under-age military service and trafficking.
The UN should pay special attention to issues relevant to stateless children and take steps to utilise all mechanisms of UN human rights bodies.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
FMR - By Maureen Lynch and Melanie Teff
"Statelessness – the non-acquisition of citizenship – can blight a child’s prospects throughout life."
Stateless infants, children and youth, through no fault of their own, inherit circumstances that limit their potential and provide, at best, an uncertain future. They are born, live and, unless they can resolve their situation, die as almost invisible people. Statelessness can also lead to poor home environments and to family separation, two important factors affecting child development.
Apart from the ways in which any person can become stateless, a child in particular can become stateless when a family migrates away from a country where citizenship is conveyed by jus sanguinis; a child has the right to citizenship of the parents’ country of origin but cannot always access it and may instead become de facto stateless in the country where they grow up. Lack of birth registration can cause statelessness. Children may not be registered because parents fear drawing attention to their own status. A child can also become stateless when a birth record is destroyed or lost and there is no other means to link them with a particular country.
Inequitable laws also create childhood statelessness. Although in the last 25 years, at least 20 countries have changed their laws to give women the right to pass their nationality to their children, the nationality of a child born to parents from different countries is still a concern when laws treat men and women differently. Where citizenship is determined exclusively by the father’s nationality, stateless fathers, single women, or women living apart from their husbands face numerous barriers to registering their children. If a woman is unable to extend citizenship to her spouse, statelessness may be imposed on her and the children. Whether parents are married or not may also determine a child’s nationality. For example, one legacy of UN peacekeeping is fatherless children – and the citizenship rights of children born to UN troops and female nationals are not always clear.
In the end, perhaps the most obvious reason why children become stateless is that they cannot act for themselves.
Protection and rights
Birth registration is the official record of a child’s birth by the state and a government’s first acknowledgement of a child’s existence. It is crucial to ensuring a culture of protection. Consider the following examples.
On the day that the child of a Burmese asylum seeker is born in a Thai hospital, the birth record is removed. The Burmese government also disavows responsibility. Not recognised by either Burma or Thailand, this child is stateless.
Children of Mauritanian refugees born in Senegal have the right to be registered as Senegalese citizens but some parents are unwilling for this to happen. They prefer to wait until they can return to Mauritania and register their children there.
Children of a Kuwaiti mother and a Bidoon – stateless – father are also Bidoon. Since a child of a divorced Kuwaiti woman or widow can theoretically acquire citizenship, there is an incentive to divorce for the sake of the child.
At a briefing on stateless children the US Congress was told about the case of a stateless family whose asylum appeal was denied was related. The five-year-old daughter was placed in a cell with her mother. The eight- and 14-year-old sisters were detained together elsewhere. The 15-year-old son was held alone. The father was separated from his family by hundreds of miles. The three-year-old was not held because she is a US citizen.
Being stateless also means not being able to access many other rights available to citizens. For stateless children, medical care may be less readily available or more costly than for others. Children without birth certificates cannot be legally vaccinated in at least 20 countries. Government assistance programmes offering medical attention to impoverished nationals, including for HIV/AIDS, may not serve stateless children.
Education is usually limited or unavailable for stateless children. Some families are told their children can attend school only if space is available after all other citizens’ children have registered; some governments feel that offering education to stateless children is too costly; in other cases, parents are forced to pay high tuition fees so children can attend private schools.
In Sabah, for example, children of migrants of Filipino and Indonesian descent with orang asing (foreigner) on their birth certificates or those without birth certificates cannot go to government school. In Thailand, the Ministry of Education is supposed to issue the Regulation on Evidence of a Child’s Birth for School Admission to honour Article 29 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child but not all children receive this document and if they do not, cannot attend class. One stateless child said, “I don’t want to pick chillies and onions in the plantation. I want to go to school. I want to wear a school uniform proudly and learn the materials in a proper classroom.”
Syria recognises the right of Kurdish children to primary education but not in their native language. To attend secondary school, they must also obtain permission from state security. Those who are maktoumeen (unregistered) do not receive their diploma from secondary school. One stateless young man with the highest marks in his high school class now sells tea in front of the University of Damascus, which he once dreamt of attending.
Passports, essential for international travel, are generally not issued to stateless children. Not having travel documents means no possibility of education abroad, travelling to visit family and relatives, or even seeking specialised medical care.
While every child is entitled to state protection against exploitation and abuse, stateless children have no such guarantee. Lack of documents proving age leaves them unprotected by child labour laws. A 13-year-old stateless girl who escaped her Thai owner said, “I was sold for less than 800 baht (US $20) to work as a housemaid…I ran away because they were going to sell me to work in the sex trade.” Law enforcement agencies cannot prosecute traffickers without proof of the age and identity of those trafficked. Some stateless children cannot be returned home without proof of nationality. If a stateless young person gets into trouble with the law and lacks proof of age, they may be prosecuted as an adult.
Recommendations
Every child should be able to develop as a full and productive citizen. “We want to be children. We want to enjoy our childhood,” explained one stateless boy. To allow these children to enjoy their childhood, the following steps should be taken: starting with the provisions of the 1961 Convention:
All states should respect the right of children to have a nationality and include provisions on non-discrimination in national citizenship laws.
Every child, whether born to married parents or not, should be registered at birth and in cases of disputed nationality states should grant citizenship if the child would otherwise be stateless.
States should make primary education free and compulsory for all children as well as provide access to health care, including immunisations, for all infants.
The practice of detaining children should be abolished.
States should enforce laws relating to the minimum employment age and assist efforts to prevent child labour, under-age military service and trafficking.
The UN should pay special attention to issues relevant to stateless children and take steps to utilise all mechanisms of UN human rights bodies.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Economic crisis causes more divorces
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Economic crisis causes more divorces
The Archipelago
PURWOKERTO, C. Java: The prolonged economic crisis has brought about an increase in the number of divorces, Muhammad Farid, an official at Purwokerto's religious court said Monday.
"In 2009, the court recorded a 70 percent increase *on average* in the number of divorce cases every month," Farid told The Jakarta Post.
He said the court heard at least 250 divorce cases every month this year while only processing 150 similar cases monthly last year.
He revealed most of the divorce cases were filled by wives.
"The major reason is economic, such as husbands losing their jobs."
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The Archipelago
PURWOKERTO, C. Java: The prolonged economic crisis has brought about an increase in the number of divorces, Muhammad Farid, an official at Purwokerto's religious court said Monday.
"In 2009, the court recorded a 70 percent increase *on average* in the number of divorce cases every month," Farid told The Jakarta Post.
He said the court heard at least 250 divorce cases every month this year while only processing 150 similar cases monthly last year.
He revealed most of the divorce cases were filled by wives.
"The major reason is economic, such as husbands losing their jobs."
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Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer - Husband In Divorce Charged With Loan Forgery
Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer - Husband In Divorce Charged With Loan Forgery
By HILDA MUÑOZ - The Hartford Courant
SOUTH WINDSOR — A 60-year-old man was arrested Monday on charges that took out a $9,000 loan against his wife's life insurance policy by forging her name, police said.
Richard Shenkman of 96 Tumblebrook Drive turned himself in on an arrest warrant. He faces a single count of second-degree forgery. He is out on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to appear April 30 at Superior Court in Manchester.
He and his wife, Nancy Tyler, are divorcing, police said.
She told police in November that she had received a letter from Nationwide Insurance claiming that she owed the company $9,000 on a loan against her policy. Tyler brought copies of documents she believed had been forged by her husband.
"She had copies of the documents and said it was obvious it was not her signature," police spokesman Sgt. Scott Custer said.
Investigators confirmed through Nationwide Insurance that the documents giving Shenkman control of Tyler's policy were forged, police said. Shenkman told police there was an agreement between the couple's attorneys giving Shenkman control over the policy, but he did not provide proof, Custer said.
State police charged Shenkman with arson for allegedly setting fire to a house in East Lyme in 2007. The case is pending in Superior Court in New London.
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By HILDA MUÑOZ - The Hartford Courant
SOUTH WINDSOR — A 60-year-old man was arrested Monday on charges that took out a $9,000 loan against his wife's life insurance policy by forging her name, police said.
Richard Shenkman of 96 Tumblebrook Drive turned himself in on an arrest warrant. He faces a single count of second-degree forgery. He is out on $10,000 bail and is scheduled to appear April 30 at Superior Court in Manchester.
He and his wife, Nancy Tyler, are divorcing, police said.
She told police in November that she had received a letter from Nationwide Insurance claiming that she owed the company $9,000 on a loan against her policy. Tyler brought copies of documents she believed had been forged by her husband.
"She had copies of the documents and said it was obvious it was not her signature," police spokesman Sgt. Scott Custer said.
Investigators confirmed through Nationwide Insurance that the documents giving Shenkman control of Tyler's policy were forged, police said. Shenkman told police there was an agreement between the couple's attorneys giving Shenkman control over the policy, but he did not provide proof, Custer said.
State police charged Shenkman with arson for allegedly setting fire to a house in East Lyme in 2007. The case is pending in Superior Court in New London.
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Augusta Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Vatican rules out royal divorce gift
Augusta Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - Vatican rules out royal divorce gift
THE Vatican last night denied that the Prince of Wales would receive a facsimile reminder of Henry VIII's 1530 divorce from Catherine of Aragon as an official gift from the Pope.
Prince Charles is due to introduce his second wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, to Pope Benedict XVI on Monday during their two-day trip to Italy.
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THE Vatican last night denied that the Prince of Wales would receive a facsimile reminder of Henry VIII's 1530 divorce from Catherine of Aragon as an official gift from the Pope.
Prince Charles is due to introduce his second wife, the Duchess of Cornwall, to Pope Benedict XVI on Monday during their two-day trip to Italy.
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Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - German heiress tests prenup law in £100m divorce case
Georgia Military Divorce Attorney - German heiress tests prenup law in £100m divorce case
One of Germany's richest women, Katrin Radmacher, is to use the British courts in an attempt to enforce a prenuptial agreement which would leave her ex-husband without a penny of her £100 million fortune.
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
In a landmark case, Miss Radmacher, a paper industry heiress, will argue that Nicolas Granatino is bound by an agreement he signed before their marriage in 1998 in which both parties agreed not to make any claim on the other if they divorced.
If she is successful, it could result in prenuptial contracts becoming legally binding under English law for the first time.
Susan Crossley says she is 'no career divorcee'Mr Granatino, 38, who gave up his job as an investment banker to become a £30,000 a year researcher at Oxford University, has already been awarded a £5.6 million lump sum following a High Court hearing last July.
On that occasion Mrs Justice Baron ruled that it would be "manifestly unfair" to hold Mr Granatino to the contract, which was signed in Germany before the couple married in London.
Miss Radmacher, 39, will take the case to the Court of Appeal next week, but her legal team will face a formidable barrier in the form of Fiona Shackleton and Nicholas Mostyn QC, the lawyers who represented Sir Paul McCartney in his divorce from Heather Mills and who have been hired by French-born Mr Granatino.
The couple met in Tramp, the members-only nightclub in Mayfair, when Mr Granatino was working as a £320,000 a year merchant banker for JP Morgan, and his wife was running a clothes shop in Knightsbridge with her sister. The couple went on to have two daughters now aged nine and six.
Problems began in 2003 when Mr Granatino decided on a change of career and took up a lowly-paid post as a biotechnology researcher at Oxford, and the couple divorced in 2006.
At the previous hearing, Mrs Justice Baron heard that the husband had "virtually no assets" whilst his ex-wife had £54m in liquid assets and another £52m in capital assets, giving her an annual income of £2m.
Although the judge recognised that the prenuptial agreement would have been fully enforceable in Germany or France, they have never been legally binding here, and she said that the arrival of the couple's children had "so changed the landscape" that it should be set aside, and awarded Mr Granatino £5,560,000.
She also noted that the husband had not received independent legal advice before signing the contract and his wife had not disclosed the full extent of her assets at the time.
Miss Radmacher, meanwhile, accused her husband of deliberately delaying his doctorate to "maximise his claim" and said that if he "wishes to be an academic he must live as such".
Miss Radmacher was granted leave to appeal after two judges ruled that she had an "arguable case" that her husband should only be entitled to maintenance payments to cover the cost of looking after the couple's daughters, who spend a third of their time with their father and the remainder with their mother in Düsseldorf.
The outcome of the case will be keenly anticipated by divorce lawyers in London, seen as the divorce capital of the world because of the number of wealthy foreign couples who choose to make their homes here.
English courts tend to protect the weaker financial party in divorce cases, and most experts expect Miss Radmacher to fail.
Julian Lipson, head of family law at Withers, said: "The Court of Appeal will need to weigh up the conundrum between respecting the autonomy of parties to agree a financial settlement at the outset of their marriage, and the need for state interference at the time of divorce to protect the financially weaker party and any children.
"It is a political hot potato for one European member state to be saying that it will not respect a legally binding contract entered into in another, but the English court tends to be paternalistic in protecting divorcing spouses from themselves."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
One of Germany's richest women, Katrin Radmacher, is to use the British courts in an attempt to enforce a prenuptial agreement which would leave her ex-husband without a penny of her £100 million fortune.
By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter
In a landmark case, Miss Radmacher, a paper industry heiress, will argue that Nicolas Granatino is bound by an agreement he signed before their marriage in 1998 in which both parties agreed not to make any claim on the other if they divorced.
If she is successful, it could result in prenuptial contracts becoming legally binding under English law for the first time.
Susan Crossley says she is 'no career divorcee'Mr Granatino, 38, who gave up his job as an investment banker to become a £30,000 a year researcher at Oxford University, has already been awarded a £5.6 million lump sum following a High Court hearing last July.
On that occasion Mrs Justice Baron ruled that it would be "manifestly unfair" to hold Mr Granatino to the contract, which was signed in Germany before the couple married in London.
Miss Radmacher, 39, will take the case to the Court of Appeal next week, but her legal team will face a formidable barrier in the form of Fiona Shackleton and Nicholas Mostyn QC, the lawyers who represented Sir Paul McCartney in his divorce from Heather Mills and who have been hired by French-born Mr Granatino.
The couple met in Tramp, the members-only nightclub in Mayfair, when Mr Granatino was working as a £320,000 a year merchant banker for JP Morgan, and his wife was running a clothes shop in Knightsbridge with her sister. The couple went on to have two daughters now aged nine and six.
Problems began in 2003 when Mr Granatino decided on a change of career and took up a lowly-paid post as a biotechnology researcher at Oxford, and the couple divorced in 2006.
At the previous hearing, Mrs Justice Baron heard that the husband had "virtually no assets" whilst his ex-wife had £54m in liquid assets and another £52m in capital assets, giving her an annual income of £2m.
Although the judge recognised that the prenuptial agreement would have been fully enforceable in Germany or France, they have never been legally binding here, and she said that the arrival of the couple's children had "so changed the landscape" that it should be set aside, and awarded Mr Granatino £5,560,000.
She also noted that the husband had not received independent legal advice before signing the contract and his wife had not disclosed the full extent of her assets at the time.
Miss Radmacher, meanwhile, accused her husband of deliberately delaying his doctorate to "maximise his claim" and said that if he "wishes to be an academic he must live as such".
Miss Radmacher was granted leave to appeal after two judges ruled that she had an "arguable case" that her husband should only be entitled to maintenance payments to cover the cost of looking after the couple's daughters, who spend a third of their time with their father and the remainder with their mother in Düsseldorf.
The outcome of the case will be keenly anticipated by divorce lawyers in London, seen as the divorce capital of the world because of the number of wealthy foreign couples who choose to make their homes here.
English courts tend to protect the weaker financial party in divorce cases, and most experts expect Miss Radmacher to fail.
Julian Lipson, head of family law at Withers, said: "The Court of Appeal will need to weigh up the conundrum between respecting the autonomy of parties to agree a financial settlement at the outset of their marriage, and the need for state interference at the time of divorce to protect the financially weaker party and any children.
"It is a political hot potato for one European member state to be saying that it will not respect a legally binding contract entered into in another, but the English court tends to be paternalistic in protecting divorcing spouses from themselves."
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Mel Gibson's Request For New Divorce Judge Granted
Augusta Military Divorce Attorney - Mel Gibson's Request For New Divorce Judge Granted
Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Mel Gibson has been granted a new judge to preside over his divorce case. The "Lethal Weapon" star, whose wife of 28 years Robyn Gibson filed divorce from him last week, has asked and has been granted a new divorce court judge.
In a motion filed by the 53-year-old movie star's legal camp on Friday, they argued that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rafael Ongkeko was "prejudiced against Respondent and/or the Respondent's attorney or the interest of Respondent."
Their request was immediately been granted. The case is now in the hands of Judge Frederick Shaller.
Robyn filed for divorce from Mel last week, citing irreconcilable differences. Mel also filed his own papers. He listed their date of separation as August 26, 2006, about one month after his controversial DUI arrest, wherein he made headlines for allegedly making bigoted comments.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
Anne Lu - Celebrity News Service News Writer
Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Mel Gibson has been granted a new judge to preside over his divorce case. The "Lethal Weapon" star, whose wife of 28 years Robyn Gibson filed divorce from him last week, has asked and has been granted a new divorce court judge.
In a motion filed by the 53-year-old movie star's legal camp on Friday, they argued that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Rafael Ongkeko was "prejudiced against Respondent and/or the Respondent's attorney or the interest of Respondent."
Their request was immediately been granted. The case is now in the hands of Judge Frederick Shaller.
Robyn filed for divorce from Mel last week, citing irreconcilable differences. Mel also filed his own papers. He listed their date of separation as August 26, 2006, about one month after his controversial DUI arrest, wherein he made headlines for allegedly making bigoted comments.
Alexandra Gonzalez-Waddington is an Augusta GA divorce lawyer & Georgia Military Divorce Lawyer Augusta Georgia domestic mediator. She is an Augusta military divorce lawyer, GA child custody attorney , and Augusta Georgia child support attorney. She offers mediation for divorce, child custody, and child support.
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