If you travel for work, it can create havoc for your custody and parenting plans. For the most part, a travel schedule doesn't impact spousal support or property division. It can impact, indirectly, your child support order only in how it might influence the number of overnights you are awarded … Read More
Your Custody Plan and the Holidays
When going through a divorce or custody case, perhaps the easiest part for most people to agree on is custody plan for the holidays. In this article we will discuss some of the arrangements we commonly see as well as considerations to think about when creating your custody plan for the … Read More
Creating a Parenting Plan For the School Year
This is part 2 in a 3 part article discussing options for developing parenting plans. Our aim is for this to be helpful both when you are separated and getting a divorce or when you are already divorced and looking into changing your existing parenting plan for one reason or another. Creating … Read More
Moving Between Oregon and Washington During or For a Divorce or Custody Case
Sometimes a situation arises with parents in the Portland metro area where they are trying to decide where to live, between the Vancouver area or the greater Portland area. If you are anticipating a custody fight with your spouse, the choice of where to live can have a significant impact on the … Read More
Custody and Legal Marijuana in Oregon & Washington
The recent changes to laws in both Oregon and Washington relating to legality of recreational marijuana are likely to have an indirect impact on some custody cases in these jurisdictions. I realize that people in Oregon and Washington are still learning the ins and outs of the new laws pertaining … Read More
Oregon Grandmother Fights to Keep Granddaughter in the U.S.
6-year-old granddaughter could be sent to Mexico with her father A 6-year-old girl, whose name has been withheld to protect her identity, could be forced to live in Mexico despite being born in the U.S, according to KOMO News. The girl's grandmother, Kerrie Lechuga of West Salem, Oregon, is … Read More