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, 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 statutes only...
by Lawrence | May 11, 2017 | child support, Contempt of Court
This may come as a shock to you, but some people get behind on their child support payments. Some people get really, really behind on their child support payments. When this happens, the person who is supposed to be receiving child support can go to court and have...
by Lawrence | Apr 18, 2017 | Child Custody & Visitation, Divorce
The Tennessee Supreme Court recently made a significant change to Tennessee Law that will make it easier for one parent to move the kids away from the other parent. The case is Aragon v. Aragon, and while the Court made the correct decision, the facts of the case are...
by Lawrence | Apr 10, 2017 | Divorce, Messed up people, Representation style
Anybody who’s watched any law-based TV shows has heard the term “hearsay”. Hearsay evidence is pretty common in civil trials, and it makes me crazy. Not the actual evidence itself, it’s that many lawyers and even some judges don’t...
