On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in child custody on Friday, May 18, 2012
Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders' divorce case is costing him quite a bit of money. A Texas judge awarded the former athlete's estranged wife, Pilar, $10,500 per month in child support and $3,500 per month for mortgage payments. The judge also ordered Deion to pay $275,000 for Pilar's legal fees. However, she was ordered to return some of Deion's property which she allegedly stole while he was working for the NFL Network at Super Bowl XLVI in Indiana.
Despite the recent orders from the judge, the divorce case has quite a bit more details to be worked out, including some child custody issues. The couple plans to work out a long-term custody agreement regarding their children. However, for now their sons will remain with Deion while their daughter stays with Pilar.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in father's rights on Saturday, May 12, 2012
Often, particularly in the past, it was customary for courts in Indiana and elsewhere to award custody to the mother rather than the father. However, with increasing frequency fathers are asserting their rights and showing that they are absolutely capable of doing a fantastic job raising their children and maintaining child custody.
This Mothers' Day, one daughter is choosing to remember the father that raised her when her mother stepped out of the picture. When the daughter was just a toddler, the parents made the decision to divorce; the mother was still just a teenager. The mother was deemed unfit to parent by the courts and so the daughter's father was awarded sole custody.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in divorce mediation on Tuesday, May 1, 2012
For some couples, pets become like children. They nurture their pets and develop a strong emotional attachment that is difficult to quantify. In the case of child custody, when a mutually agreeable decision cannot be reached, litigation will determine a parenting plan and a court order will determine which parent will be the custodial parent and subsequent visitation. It is not the same with pets when it comes to divorce.
Pets are considered property and as such can be awarded to one spouse over the other as though it was a couch or anything else deemed marital property. In many situations in which both sides present a significant investment in a beloved animal, divorce mediation may be a very beneficial tool. In a mediation setting, both parties would hire a neutral third party to reach an agreement about custody and visitation of the pet.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in Child Supprt on Tuesday, April 17, 2012
The father of two was going through some difficult times. He and his wife separated in 2006 and then the man began a very brief relationship with another woman. The relationship purportedly lasted only a few days but resulted in the woman accusing the man that he was also the father to her child. As such, the man was ordered to pay child support and when he failed to do so, insisting that the child was not his, he was jailed.
DNA testing has cleared scores of erroneously accused individuals and this man is no exception. When a paternity test proved the jailed man was not in fact the father of the child in question, he was released from custody. However, under Texas law, where the incident took place, the man still owed $50,000 in child support even though his parental responsibility over the child was released. Luckily for this man, the mother of the child decided to relinquish her claim over the money.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in divorce mediation on Thursday, April 12, 2012
Divorce can be a difficult conclusion for any Indiana couple to come to. However, just because a couple is parting ways does not mean that the couple is going to have a "bad divorce." There are several things that couples can do to end on good terms and it starts with divorce mediation.
A divorcing partner should allow themselves time to work through all the emotions they may likely be feeling. Working through emotions rather than bottling them up will more than likely prevent the former spouses from leveraging the legal systems and resorting to costly and drawn out litigation to get back at their former spouse.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in father's rights on Thursday, April 5, 2012
There is an outdated notion that children are better off in the custody of their mother. This is simply not universally true. There are plenty of outstanding fathers in the state of Indiana and it is important that their rights are upheld.
However, it would be foolish to labor under the assumption that there isn't a slight bias against fathers when it comes to determining custody. If a father is seeking to gain child custody, he would do well to follow the advice laid out below to present the best case for custody of his children.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in divorce mediation on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
In a traditional divorce, each former spouse may be represented by their separate lawyer and proceedings can be long and drawn out in the court room. Divorce mediation can, for some couples, be an alternative to the headache of a traditional divorce. With divorce mediation, each former spouse can have the opportunity to resolve any differences prior to going to court. The process is overseen by an objective third party that assists in reaching agreements.
Part of the divorce process, and particularly in cases of divorce mediation, is communication. As much as an individual in Indiana may wish to never speak to their ex again, in some instances, it is necessary. Ineffective communication can prolong the proceedings and cause more headaches.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in Child Supprt on Wednesday, March 21, 2012
In Indiana and states across the country, parenthood is not as clear cut as one may assume. However, the court does make it clear that if an individual is found to legally be the parent of a child, that individual is liable for child support payments.
In an unusual case, a mother is seeking child support payments from her ex-husband for support of their twin daughters conceived via in vitro fertilization, using donor sperm and egg, after the couple split.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in child custody on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
One Indiana mother has taken her fight international to regain custody of her children. The child custody dispute began when the mother filed for divorce from the father of her children in 2010. An Indiana court awarded the mother custody but the father returned to his home country of Cyprus with the children.
The discrepancy went international when a Cypriot court also awarded the father custody. Reportedly, the father illegally obtained passports for the former couple's two small children through forging the mother's signature. Both parties have representation fighting on their behalf and attempting to resolve the custody battle in their respective jurisdictions.
On behalf of The Law Office of Julie R. Glade, RN, JD posted in father's rights on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Under an Indiana bill that has passed out of the Senate, rapists could lose their custody rights. In Indiana, over 700 babies each year are a direct result of rape. State law in Indiana, and several other states, maintains that rapists are fathers and uphold the same fathers' rights as a child that was conceived consensually.
This new bill aims to change this fact by prohibiting rapists from ever having contact, much less custody, with the child that resulted from the rapist's actions. The hope of this bill is to protect the mother and child from harassment.
