Category: News
MTV’s documentary series “True Life” doing show about divorce – Casting call!
As divorce and family lawyers in Portland, Oregon, we see the impact that divorce can have on parents and children. While our client’s stories are confidential and private, I think a lot of people…
News: Bugged Teddy Bear Backfires!
While wanting to know what is happening in the other parent’s house is understandable, there are some boundaries. For example, don’t grill the kids about what is happening with the other parent during parenting time. Also,…
Divorce Tech: The YouTube Divorce
Law.com had an interesting post about Phillip Smith’s divorce from his wife, Tricia Walsh-Smith in Manhattan. The case is an example of technology being misused in divorce. Apparently Ms. Walsh-Smith had made a rather embarrassing…
New Case Law: Settlement on the record
Most family law cases settle without a trial. Courts encourage settlement of family law issues, and the legislature expressly provides that it is Oregon’s policy to “encourage the settlement of suits for marital annulment, dissolution…
Multnomah CourtCare: A great service and a worthy cause
As a divorce and family law lawyer, I am in the position to see the impact of court and the divorce process on children. It is bad enough that some parents put children in the…
News: how NOT to divide your property after trial.
Divorce usually involves a division of property. ORS 107.107(1)(f) describes what kind of property can be divided by the court. The question of how property should be divided is tricky. Do you swap an asset…
News: Divorce Rates Skyrocket in India
The International Herald Tribute runs this story about increasing divorce rates in India, a place where arranged marriages are customary and, historically, long-lasting. The reasons for the increase? Women’s financial independence, weakening of taboos, laws…
News: Divorce rate up in China.
China View reports today that China’s civil affair department registered an increase in marriages and divorces in 2007. Approximately 1.4 million couples divorced last year, a year on year increase of 18.2 percent, according to…
News: How not to pay child support
The Oregonian reports that a Washington man has been accused of running an Internet prostitution ring in order to make payments on his child support — for his eight children (by seven women). The man…
Baby you can drive my car, or: how would an Oregon family law court handle the McCartney-Mills split? (Part III)
The last set of issues a court would consider in the McCartney-Mills divorce would be custody of Beatrice and the child support owed from one parent to another. Custody of a child in a contested…
