Four Reasons You Should Always Take Advantage of a Free Consultation Before you Hire Your Oregon Family Law Attorney Most family law attorneys in today's day and age offer some form of free consultation for prospective clients. This can be critical for both sides, although some attorneys still do … Read More
Protecting small a business during divorce can be a tricky prospect especially if there is a high amount of animosity during your divorce. Often, when the parties own a small business, division of that asset can be like walking in a legal minefield. There are a few key considerations, such as how … Read More
Even for an experienced attorney, going to trial can be a daunting process. Effectively, trial is taking your entire life, breaking it up into distinct, small legal questions, and pressing it through a small funnel in the form of chunks of admissible evidence. Here are a few things you can do, … Read More
The state of Oregon allows parties to obtain, in limited situations, an immediate custody order when the other parent presents a danger to the child. If you feel you need such an order, you will have to convince a judge that the child is in immediate danger in the other person's care. You have to … Read More
Differences Between Being Unmarried and Married When Ending a Long Term Relationship in Oregon In Oregon, the primary difference between how married couples split up versus how unmarried couples split up is spousal support. If you are married, you can get (or have to pay) spousal support. If you … Read More
Five Things You Should be Asking Your Portland Family Law Attorney But Often Don't The biggest problem with going through a divorce for most people, is that they don't know what they don't know. Much of the mysticism and stress of a divorce can be relieved with proper knowledge, but attorneys … Read More
Dividing Assets is one of the major obstacles in an Oregon divorce. In Oregon, assets are almost always divided evenly, but that means different things depending on the stage of life and length of your marriage. This article covers dividing assets as you approach retirement, and our next article … Read More
As a Portland, Oregon custody law firm we obviously get many questions about custody in Oregon. Here are the top five most asked Oregon custody questions that we get asked and our answers. There are many other questions that people will have when going through a divorce or custody case and we are … Read More
When parents decide they need to get a divorce during the very first few months of a child's life there can be some unique questions that come up. The two biggest of these questions are what happens when the infant is breastfeeding and how is this handled with the similar need for bonding time for … Read More
The question often comes up, "what exactly is child support supposed to pay for in Oregon". This typically comes up when one parent asks the other, who is already paying a monthly Oregon child support payment, to also pay for a child's activity fees, or back to school costs. I'll do my best here … Read More