You can claim legal fees incurred to collect late support (child or spousal) payments, establish the amount of support, seek an increase in support payments or to defend against the reduction of support payments. But you cannot claim those fees you incur where you are establishing a right where none existed.
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Adultery: Finding the Proverbial Lipstick on His Collar
“He is a lying, cheating, blankity blank and I can prove it!” I sometimes hear this type of statement (blanks usually filled in) with the client sitting across from me and looking at me expectantly … almost as if waiting for me to put my feet up on my desk and declare, “Well, that’s it then: case closed!!”. While it would be strangely satisfying to be able to resolve a matter with that degree of simplicity, in reality, it just doesn’t work that way.
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Paying Support for Non-Biological Children
As a family law lawyer, I have had the opportunity to speak to many different people from many different types of families. There are all sorts of familial relationships and connections out there and, as our own Catherine Hyde has pointed out, the modern family is no longer what one might once have thought of…