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 | Aug 11, 2017 | Child Custody & Visitation, child support, Parental rights
Sometimes, during a divorce, parents agree to pay for private school tuition for the children. There’s no problem with that, except that later on when incomes change and the cost of tuition skyrockets, this can be a real burden. The Tennessee Court of Appeals...
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 | Oct 1, 2015 | Child Custody & Visitation, Parental rights, Termination of parental rights
I get a lot of emails from a parent who wants to terminate the rights of the other parent of their child. It’s almost always a mother wanting to terminate the parental rights of the father. Sometimes it’s a father of a child wanting to terminate his own...
by Lawrence | Jun 4, 2015 | Child Custody & Visitation, child support, Divorce, marital property, Parental rights, Property Division
There are several new laws coming into effect in Tennessee that may be of interest to people involved in divorce, custody, or child support cases. SB101 / HB90 Forgiving accrued principal and interest on child support. Previously, child support was a...
by Lawrence | Aug 26, 2014 | Child Custody & Visitation, child support, Parental rights
This case struck me as odd because the father really wanted equal parenting time with his kids, but the trial court only gave him 91 days per year. When he complained, the Appellate Court suggested that he not worry about it because even though the trial court only...
