Category Archives: Family Law

Studies show that grandparents play a significant role in the upbringing of a child. In following with their ultimate goal of preserving the best interests of the child, courts in the United States, including Alabama recognize this importance, and have laws in place to help assure that grandparents can play an active role in a child’s growth and development. Grandparents are entitled to visitation rights if it can be proven that it is in the best interests of the child,Continue reading →

Partners have numerous legal arrangements to remain together which pose unique family law issues. However, recognition of one of these legal relationships will end in Alabama. The state will no longer recognize new common-law marriages beginning on New Year’s Day 2017. A common-law marriage is a union that is legally-recognized even though there is no official marriage license in the state. The law, before this change, did not require a specific time or the couple to live together although sevenContinue reading →

It often feels like every week or two another celebrity couple splits up. In many cases, the celebrity marriages were short term flings, often lasting less than a year and sometimes even less than a month. That is why it may come as a shock to many to hear of the recently announcement that the reality television couple and business partners Tarek and Christina El Moussa from the popular HGTV show “Flip or Flop” have filed for divorce. The coupleContinue reading →

For happy families, the holiday season is a time to embrace all of your relationships, such as those with co-workers, friends and family. But, for unhappy couples, the holidays may be more complex. On one hand, the holidays may reaffirm a relationship, showing that love still exists and that the couple can work through some bumps in the road. But, for other couples, the holidays may reveal that a relationship is fractured, possibly even beyond repair. This is why itContinue reading →

When Alabama parents share a child but are no longer together as a couple, one parent will generally be ordered to pay child support to the other. There are times when the supporting parent is delinquent in what he or she owes. The state has certain methods that it will use to enforce these obligations. Income withholding is when there is a court order or an administrative order for the employer of the noncustodial parent to take a certain amountContinue reading →

When an Alabama couple shares a child and there is an order that one parent pay child support to the other parent, there is a chance that one parent or the other will dispute the amount that is ordered. There are a number of reasons for this. It is important for both parties to understand that there is a possibility for there to be a modification to the order for child support. Having a grasp on how this can comeContinue reading →

It is not unusual for a child custody and visitation dispute in Alabama to extend to whether grandparents will have the right to see or have custody of the child. Knowing how the law views this is imperative for the parents, and the grandparents to make certain that they have a grasp on grandparents’ rights and what can and cannot be done. Under the law, a grandparent is defined as the parent of the parent of a minor child. ThisContinue reading →