Category: Child Support
Baby you can drive my car, or: how would an Oregon family law court handle the McCartney-Mills split?
The Paul McCartney/Heather Mills divorce action is all over the tabloids (and some of us at the Oregon Divorce Blog just love our celebrity gossip). It’s no wonder, though – Sir Paul’s fortune is in…
New Resource for Divorcing Women
Check out the Modern Woman’s Divorce Guide for wonderful interviews with attorneys, articles, and resources!
The perfect client
What a lawyer thinks of as a “perfect client” in the domestic relations sense is a client who helps the process of the dissolution, custody, or support matter along. We know how hard this process…
Filing costs for dissolution, custody, and other family law matters
Everyone wants to know how much their family law matter is going to cost. Your legal fees — well, that’s a matter between you and your attorney. Do you need a custody evaluation ? That…
How is Child Support Calculated?
One of the first things a prospective client in a case involving child custody wants to know is “how much child support will I get?” (The real answer is “what the judge orders,” but clients…
New Case Law: Honesty is the best policy
In Oregon, when going through any sort of support proceeding (child or spousal), the parties are required to complete what’s known as the USA, short for Uniform Support Affidavit. Completing this can be about as…
Do I need a lawyer for my divorce?
I’m asked all the time: “Do I need a lawyer for my divorce case?” There’s no simple answer to this question. Oregon doesn’t have a law that forces you to hire a lawyer in a…
