Friday, May 3, 2013

UNCONTESTED DIVORCE

The most cost-effective way to get a divorce is when you and your spouse can agree upon how property and debts will be divided and how you want to handle custody and visitation of your children.  This can be done through the filing of a Joint Petition for Divorce. If you are able to proceed in this manner, your divorce can be completed quickly and at a fraction of the cost of a contested matter.

PLACEMENT OF FOSTER CHILDREN IN NEVADA

A recent assembly bill, AB393, provides that if a child is placed in a foster home that, to the extent possible, the child should have contact with his or her siblings arranged on a regular basis and on holidays, birthdays, and other significant life events.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

NO FAULT DIVORCE

The law requires that you give the court a reason to grant your divorce.  To get the process started, you must state your reason, or grounds, in a divorce complaint or petition.  Since 2010, all 50 states recognize "no-fault" divorce grounds, so you simply declare that your marriage is over.  Nevada is a pure "no-fault" state.  You declare in your complaint that you and your spouse have "irreconcilable differences."  You don't have to say why your marriage broke down or what your differences are.  The idea behind no-fault divorce is that neither spouse blames the other for the end of the marriage. See NRS 125.010.

PUTTING CHILDREN IN THE MIDDLE

"MINNESOTA JUDGE HAS 200 BLUNT WORDS FOR DIVORCING PARENTS"
By Judge Michael Haas, 2001

"Your children have come into this world because of the two of you.  Perhaps you two made lousy choices as to whom you decided to be the other parent.  If so, that is your problem and your fault.

No matter what you think of the other party---or what your family thinks of the other party--these children are one-half of each of you.  Remember that, because every time you tell your child what an "idiot" his father is, or what a "fool" his mother is, or how bad the absent parent is, or what terrible things that person has done, you are telling the child half of him is bad.

That is an unforgivable thing to do to a child.  That is not love, that is possession.  If you do that to your children, you will destroy them as surely as if you had cut them into pieces, because that is what you are doing to their emotions.

I sincerely hope you do not do that to your children.  Think more about your children and less about yourselves, and make yours a selfless kind of love, not foolish or selfish, or your children will suffer."