by Lawrence | Feb 14, 2011 | Child Custody & Visitation, Children with Special Needs, Discovery, Divorce, Parental rights
Note: This post has been updated on 04/30/14 to reflect changes in the law that will take effect on 07/01/2014. The list of factors the court must consider were modified by the Tennessee State Legislature, and the new list appears below. You’re getting a...
by Lawrence | May 20, 2020 | child support, Divorce, Nashville Attorney, Parental rights
A few years ago I wrote a blog post about the term “standard parenting”. As I explained in that post, the term was used in the Tennessee Child Support Guidelines to describe the old typical arrangement where one parent had a child most of the time, and...
by Lawrence | Apr 9, 2020 | Child Custody & Visitation, Divorce, marriage, Nashville Attorney
Are the courts closed? No, the Tennessee courts are not closed. The Tennessee Supreme Court did issue an order that closed our courts to in-person hearings (with some exceptions), then later issued another order that modified and extended the first order. You can...
by Lawrence | May 23, 2017 | Child Custody & Visitation, child support, Parental rights, Proposed laws
Starting July 1st, 2017, a new law in Tennessee says that a judgment for unpaid child support can not go back farther than five years of missed payments. Child support arrearages limited Why would the legislature do this? Shouldn’t deadbeat dads be required to...
by Lawrence | May 17, 2017 | Nashville Attorney
Last year I wrote a post about Sabrina and Erica Witt (link removed), who were two women involved in a same-sex divorce in Knoxville. The problem with their case was one of the two had given birth to a child via artificial insemination, and since the Tennessee...
