Recent News
A source for advice and news regarding all things family law.
How to Change Your Name after a Divorce
One of the most common questions that clients ask our Las Vegas divorce attorneys is how they can change their names after a divorce. For many people who took their spouses’ names during a marriage, reclaiming their old names is an important part of moving on and...
6 Tips for Moving on After a Divorce
As family law attorneys specializing in representing people during their divorces, we have seen firsthand many times how hard it can be for people to move on after a divorce. While recovering from the experience of a failed marriage is never easy and takes time, we...
How to Talk to Your Kids about Divorce
Regardless of how resilient a child may seem, divorce is a devastating time for them at any age. Divorce is one area of family law that often impacts children the greatest. Children may blame themselves for the end of their parents’ marriage, or they may have feelings...
6 Tips for Stress Relief During a Divorce
Going through a divorce is often one of the most stressful events during a person’s life. In addition to the emotional stress that comes from the end of a relationship you believed would last a lifetime, there are also other concerns about finances, child custody, and...
Termination of Parental Rights in Nevada
One of the most sensitive and emotionally fraught areas of family law is the subject of when a parent's rights to raise their child can be taken away. Parental rights is an issue that both federal and state law take very seriously, and any non-voluntary voiding of a...
Why Hiring a Divorce Lawyer Is in Your Best Interest
Some people are hesitant to hire a divorce attorney to help them through the divorce process. There are several reasons why they feel this way. Some people want to save money, some people want to handle their divorce by themselves, and others have the feeling that...
Who Can Get Their Marriage Annulled in Nevada?
Nevada has a reputation for being a place where quick and easy marriages happen. As a result, it's also the place with the highest marriage annulment rate in the U.S. An annulment is a family law procedure similar to a divorce, in that it dissolves a marriage...
What Are the Differences between Physical Custody and Legal Custody?
Divorce can be a complicated process, especially when there are children involved. Most people know the term "custody" as it applies to family law, but many do not fully understand that there are two different types of custody, physical custody and legal custody, that...
Accepting and Moving On from Your Divorce
One of the hardest parts of any divorce is coming to accept that a marriage has ended, and moving on from life with your former partner. Even for spouses who initiated the separation, moving past the marriage can be a very difficult task. Our divorce lawyers' clients...
Tips for When Your Divorce Brings You to Court
Most people pursuing a divorce will never have to appear in court. For most divorces the entire process can be dealt with by the two parties and their divorce lawyers, removing the need to go before a judge. But sometimes, during a particularly intense divorce or due...
Enforcing a Child Support Order
One of the most common issues that divorce lawyers see come up after a divorce is non-payment of child support. After a divorce between two parents is finalized, the parent who does not have primary custody is usually ordered to pay monthly child support payments to...
Joint Physical Custody in Nevada
I have noticed a trend recently with custody filings with the opposing party having an expectation of joint physical custody despite significant time having passed with the other parent having had primary physical custody. The conclusion comes from, in my opinion, a...