Whether it's the inheritance you get or the one you leave behind to your children, you may find yourself wondering how divorce will affect the inheritance. Passing along your legacy can be an important goal for you and a useful tool for your adult children....
Of all of the issues that can arise in a divorce in Arizona, child custody has the potential to become the most contentious of all. No matter how irretrievably a marriage breaks down, when children are involved one thing is usually clear: both soon-to-be ex-spouses...
Not all children who are born in Arizona are born to a husband and wife. In fact, recent statistics have shown that the number of children who are being born outside the bounds of marriage has increased quite a bit over the last several years. When a child is born to...
Most of our readers probably know the broad strokes involved in a divorce, but what they may not realize is that each state has their own specific state laws governing this type of legal scenario. Arizona, particularly, has a set of divorce laws that is somewhat...
There have been previous assumptions in Arizona that in the court of law with regards to child custody, the mother was assumed to have a stronger role with regards to being a child's caregiver, and therefore would be more likely to gain child custody during...
The end of a marriage may be one of the most stressful and daunting life changes one may ever face. Along with potentially being an emotional rollercoaster, there are numerous aspects involved in the process, such as property division, that can have a significant...
Like many other states, Arizona has a set of Child Support Guidelines which Arizona courts will use to calculate how much child support one parent will pay to the other. Although the amount called for under the guidelines will almost always apply to the parent without...
Many residents of Tempe and other parts of the Phoenix metro area who follow the trends in family law at all may realize that, these days, courts and family law experts favor setups where two parents who are living in separate households share parenting time as much...
Some in Tempe, Arizona or the greater Phoenix metro area might take some umbrage at the term fathers' rights, as if it implies the mom of a child has been depriving something that all dads deserve, no matter what the circumstances.Our law office does represent dads in...
A previous post on this blog discussed what all counts as income when it comes to figuring out how much child support an Arizona mother or father is going to have to pay. How much income each parent makes is often a difficult question to answer since, in many cases,...