Charlotte Divorce Lawyer Blog
The new North Carolina Child Support Guidelines will be applicable to all child support cases (or modification of child support cases) heard on or after January 1, 2011. There will now be a provision which explicitly indicates that they are applicable to actions brought under North Carolina General Statutes Chapter 50B (Domestic Violence Protective Order Actions). The provision addressing the guidlines’ applicability to retroactive child support will be removed and there will be a new section added which addresses this topic.
North Carolina Child Support Guidelines Updated
The North Carolina Conference of Chief District Court Judges is required by North Carolina General Statutes 50-13.4 to review the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines to ensure that they provide for appropriate child support judgments. The child support guidelines were last reviewed in 2006 so they were again reviewed this year.
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Domestic Violence in Child Custody Dispute
A man involved in a child custody dispute recently committted an act of domestic violence when he hit the mother and the grandmother with his car in Monteray, California. According to the article, the man and a family member were in a motor vehicle and trying to leave with the minor children. The mother and grandmother of the children came outside of the house, stood in front of the car, and tried to convince the men to leave the children with their mother.
Divorce Issues Emerge in Home Designing
Is it easier to remodel houses than people? Interior and architectural designers are finding that they have greater psychological issues to deal with than do most client-based professionals simply because they transform homes into personal living spaces for couples. Designers find that couples can disagree over the simplest things, such as fabrics or wallpaper, and will end up battling over matters that were previously unforeseeable to both of them.
Virtual Visitation in Family Law
Courts are beginning to utilize new technology to experiment with the implementation of “virtual visitation” on divorced parents who do not live in the same state. A New York judge recently ruled that a mother who was moving out of state to Florida must make her two children available to talk to their father via Skype, an online video chatting service. Many other states have also begun to experiment with virtual visitation laws, with judges ordering non-custodial parents to keep in contact with their children through email, instant messaging, and web cameras.
Cohabitation Survival Tip #8: Don’t become too comfortable with comfortable.
Couples who cohabitate will innately share more of their daily lives than couples who live apart. After seeing another person day in and day out and sharing in the less glamorous parts of that person’s life, couples who get too comfortable with each other can begin to take one another for granted. Cohabitating couples should learn to keep communication open in order to insure that one of them does not feel taken for granted or underappreciated.
Cohabitation Survival Tip #7: Plan for the worst.
Couples should discuss in advance how they will act and diffuse heated situations in the future. Although no two people ever plan to reach an impasse in a nasty fight, planning for the worst is better than being confronted with a situation in which neither partner is willing to forgive or forget.
Cohabitation Survival Tip #6: Have your own life.
After two people move in together, it may be easy for them to spend time mainly with one another and to neglect their friends and past contacts. The best advice is to not live in your partner’s shadow and to maintain your own life, so as to not fall into a rut in your relationship.
Cohabitation Survival Tip #5: Learn to compromise.
When two individuals begin to live together, they must learn to accept compromise as part of a regular routine. Individuals should learn to compromise on the issues that are least important to them in order to win on the issues that are more important to them. Cohabitating means learning to work toward the happiness of both parties as often as possible.
Cohabitation Survival Tip #4: Assign tasks.
Couples should document everything that needs to be done in the home, determine who can either most proficiently or most easily complete each task, and divide up the chores accordingly. Couples should factor in issues such as who works the most or who contributes more financially to the household.