You’re worried about your finances, and you’re thinking you should just represent yourself. But can you win a custody battle without a lawyer? Find out here! Divorce and splitting up a home can be very expensive. When you add the cost of a child custody battle, you look for somewhere, often anywhere, to cut your […]
How to Establish Paternity: Your Essential Guide
There are several reasons someone would want to establish paternity. Whatever your reason, here’s your essential guide to establishing paternity. In the eyes of the law, to be a father is more than just giving half his genes. To have paternity over a child means “the state of being a father,” and all that this […]
How Restraining Orders Impact Your Life, Record
There are several ways that a restraining order might affect your record. Learn about the impact of a restraining order here! It’s estimated well over a million restraining orders go into effect each year. Do you know how a restraining order can affect your life? The better you understand the process, the more you know […]
A Go-To Guide for Guardianship Letters
Are you seeking legal guardianship of a minor? Click here for a go-to legal guardianship letter to use as a guide! If you make the decision to give custody of your child to someone you trust, you need to write a guardianship letter. Most of the time, you’d give only temporary guardianship, not permanent. If […]
How to File a Restraining Order
Restraining orders are an effective means to keep those who would harm you away. Discover how to file a restraining order here to ensure your safety. Have you ever wondered what causes someone to get a restraining order? Perhaps since you’re reading this post, you already know. Domestic violence is the primary reason people seek […]
Divorce Mediation – Two Questions to Keep in Mind – Part II
Part One of this blog discussed the how the decisions you make will affect the family landscape. Today we look at the second question you must consider when contemplating divorce. How will our finances look after the divorce? Just like a home is most people’s biggest asset, divorce is the single larges transaction of their […]
Divorce Mediation – Two Questions to Keep in Mind – Part I
Just like you never start a business with the intentions of it failing, you never enter the bonds of matrimony with the intentions of divorce. Unfortuatnely, as soon as you and your spouse say “I do”, there is a 50% chance in the future you will be saying “I don’t.” As soon as you and your […]
In loco Parentis – Can you seek custody of your child in a failed same sex relationship?
In a recent Nebraska Supreme Court case, the Court reversed the district court’s ruling stating that it did err when it concluded the doctrine of in loco parentis, did not apply to a non biological, non adoptive, same sex parent. This doctrine, Latin for “in the place of a parent” allows for a non-biological parent to be […]
Grandparents – Can I have visitation or custody of my grandchild? (Nebraska)
Often a by-product of a failed relationship or marriage is the collateral damage felt by the grandparents and their inability to have consistent or regular visitation with their grandchildren. In Nebraska, the Court has taken on the common definition for “grandparent” and has defined it as the biological or adoptive parent of a minor child’s […]