by Lawrence | Oct 1, 2021 | Divorce, marital property, Nashville Attorney, Property Division
This case doesn’t really make any changes to the law in Tennessee, but I decided to post about it because it illustrates an important point about irreconcilable differences divorces. The short version is this: A marital dissolution agreement is a contract and...
by Lawrence | Sep 9, 2020 | Divorce, marital property, Property Division
Normally when you own a house or other major asset prior to a marriage, that property will remain your separate property. However, there are some exceptions. If you’re not careful (and sometimes even if you are careful) what was “yours” might become...
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 | 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...
