The North Carolina Conference of Chief District Court Judges is required by North Carolina General Statutes 50-13.4 to review the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines to ensure that they provide for appropriate child support judgments. The child support guidelines were last reviewed in 2006 so they were again reviewed this…
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Domestic Violence in Child Custody Dispute
A man involved in a child custody dispute recently committted an act of domestic violence when he hit the mother and the grandmother with his car in Monteray, California. According to the article, the man and a family member were in a motor vehicle and trying to leave with the…
Divorce Issues Emerge in Home Designing
Is it easier to remodel houses than people? Interior and architectural designers are finding that they have greater psychological issues to deal with than do most client-based professionals simply because they transform homes into personal living spaces for couples. Designers find that couples can disagree over the simplest things, such…
Virtual Visitation in Family Law
Courts are beginning to utilize new technology to experiment with the implementation of “virtual visitation” on divorced parents who do not live in the same state. A New York judge recently ruled that a mother who was moving out of state to Florida must make her two children available to…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #8: Don’t become too comfortable with comfortable.
Couples who cohabitate will innately share more of their daily lives than couples who live apart. After seeing another person day in and day out and sharing in the less glamorous parts of that person’s life, couples who get too comfortable with each other can begin to take one another…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #7: Plan for the worst.
Couples should discuss in advance how they will act and diffuse heated situations in the future. Although no two people ever plan to reach an impasse in a nasty fight, planning for the worst is better than being confronted with a situation in which neither partner is willing to forgive…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #6: Have your own life.
After two people move in together, it may be easy for them to spend time mainly with one another and to neglect their friends and past contacts. The best advice is to not live in your partner’s shadow and to maintain your own life, so as to not fall into…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #5: Learn to compromise.
When two individuals begin to live together, they must learn to accept compromise as part of a regular routine. Individuals should learn to compromise on the issues that are least important to them in order to win on the issues that are more important to them. Cohabitating means learning to…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #4: Assign tasks.
Couples should document everything that needs to be done in the home, determine who can either most proficiently or most easily complete each task, and divide up the chores accordingly. Couples should factor in issues such as who works the most or who contributes more financially to the household. To…
Cohabitation Survival Tip #3: Seriously consider making a cohabitation agreement.
Pre-arranged legal documents usually make things easier on both parties if or when a couple breaks up. These agreements can determine who gets the furniture, the home, the car, and any additional items belonging to both parties. Cohabitation agreements can also include provisions spelling out what happens if one partner…