In general, family law is civil law covering legal relationships among family members like husbands, wives, parents, children & domestic partners. A family law attorney specializes in the family law relationships encompassing adoption, child custody, visitation rights, domestic violence, divorce, juvenile dependency and delinquency, marital property rights, support obligations, and paternity.

Basic Divorce Information

With all of this content floating around, what exactly does it mean if you're divorcing and what steps are on the path to finalizing a divorce? 

First, the definition:

      Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse.  

Next, there's the woman's perspective: Divorce advice and help for women often focuses on child custody issues, support and employment concerns, emotional and psychological issues.

Then there's the men's view of divorce at sites like askmen.com:  With divorce on the rise -- today, more than 50% of all marriages in the U.S. result in divorce -- men's rights are being increasingly overlooked to the benefit of women. Consider this: statistically, the first person to file for divorce usually wins. While 70% of all divorces are initiated by women, 85 to 90% of custody awards go to the women. The numbers alone reveal the ugly truth when it comes to men: marriage has become a gamble in which the odds are heavily against us. [more]

Indiana Family Law Attorney Tony Zirkle 

Knowing that family law, child custody & divorce in Indiana can involve intricate legal details, it's important to retain a lawyer that is accomplished in the field. Tony Zirkle's family law practice (located in South Bend and Crown Point Indiana) is focused upon the following areas of practice.

• Uncontested divorce
• Contested divorce
• Child custody, visitation, support
• Division of assets
• Allocation of debts
• Alimony

 

Meiselman and Helfant are experienced Maryland family law mediation attorneys focused on being neutral mediators and court-appointed ADR settlement facilitators. Solve family law and divorce issues with a minimum of pain and heartache. 

Not familiar with what a divorce mediator would do for you? 

The main advantage of mediation is that it keeps you and your spouse in control of your own divorce. That can make all the difference in recovering from your divorce and moving on with your life.

Mediation allows the two of you to get through the process with less conflict than you would experience in an adversarial divorce. Because mediation is all about working with shared knowledge, mediation also often allows you and your spouse to work together to lower your tax bill …and that can often translate into more money for you.

Take a look at more mediation information online.  

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