Family Law

More and more public places are starting to accommodate service and support animals, understanding the important role they play in people’s day-to-day lives. People with disabilities and other physical or psychiatric issues depend on their four-legged friends to cope with the challenges of daily living. However, with wild stories of people attempting to bring pigs…

Having a child should be a magical experience filled with excitement and joy. For many couples who have a child prior to being married, it can be filled with uncertainty. Having a child out of wedlock may be scary, depending upon the type of relationship you have with your child’s mother, and even her friends…

Today, remarrying after a divorce or the death of a spouse is commonplace, as is getting married or remarried in our senior years. Remarriage brings a different host of issues that need to be addressed than when marrying young or for the first time. Often, each spouse may have children from previous partners, or they…

Divorce is rarely a neat and tidy process. When you’re embroiled in what feels like the battle of your life, it’s very easy to feel hurt and be temporarily blinded by your anger. A very common response to the situation you’ve found yourself in is to either blatantly retaliate against your spouse, or to engage…

Your children having a relationship with their grandparents should be a wonderful, happy reality that evokes close-knit family bonding. Unfortunately, not everyone with children feels this way about their children’s grandparents. Maybe your childhood wasn’t as rosy as your parents believe, and you feel that they engage in toxic behavior. Maybe your spouse’s parents try…

Clients in need of family law counsel can find themselves being emotionally drained. Even happy events, like adoptions, can be a bit overwhelming. Whether you’re dealing with your ex, or fighting for your kids, or simply stressed out from the day-to-day difficulties of going through a divorce. Sometimes, you just need something soft and safe…

During a divorce, even an amicable one, issues regarding children can get complicated and difficult. Determining child support and child custody agreements is typically the most important part of your divorce agreement and it’s crucial to consider every possible outcome. However, none of us can really predict the future, and at some point you may…

As a parent, the prospect of divorce becomes far more complicated when you consider the decisions that must be made about custody of your children. If you and your spouse are unable to come up with a plan, you will be at the mercy of whatever the court decides is in the best interest of…

In 2016, Sabrina and Erica Witt became the first same-sex couple to file for divorce in Tennessee. Their story made national news not only because they wished to divorce, but because of the heart-breaking custody battle that ensued. Eventually, Knox County 4th Circuit Court Judge Greg McMillan ruled that despite Erica’s sex, she would be…