Make The Divorce Process Simpler
What is it with so many current and former professional athletes with a nexus to Florida and their problems with child custody and child support?As readers of our blog posts will readily confirm, there is certainly no dearth of stories relating to local sports stars...
The United States is one step closer to actively collecting child support from some non-paying parents with obligations living outside the country. The House of Representatives voted to ratify a 2007 international treaty that will ensure families of support they are...
Sometimes the buzz word most closely associated with a story concerning a rich professional athlete simply has to be "zany."Take the case of Miami Heat professional basketball player and long-time star Chris Bosh. Bosh and a girlfriend had a daughter three years ago,...
That didn't take long.We informed readers in a May 3 blog post of the just-begun child support trial in a family court in New York City featuring billionaire French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault and his one-time girlfriend and longtime super model Linda...
A family court in New York is the slated venue today for a trial centered on child support for a five-year-old boy fathered by a man from one of the world's wealthiest families and with a mother who, at 46, still commands top dollar for her modeling work.Facially, it...
As with so many things in life, including family law matters such as child support and alimony, there are two sides to the story. It's noteworthy how the drama surrounding two former professional basketball players serves to point this out.Over the past couple weeks,...
You can't really call it a trend, but a New Jersey bill just introduced into that state's legislature and calling for mandatory genetic testing of parents and newborns follows similar legislation from Kansas last year that is still pending in that state's...
In some ways, the financial rise and fall of professional athletes, especially as it relates to something like their ability to pay child support, is not all that different from more "normal" people.Excepting for the stark contrast that word "normal" invokes in...
The term "deadbeat parents" is well understood by most providers in Florida and other states who fulfill their family responsibilities by caring adequately for their children. There are certainly situations in which loving and well-intentioned parents simply run into...
With a pending bankruptcy case, a federal judge must now rule on whether the delinquent child support case against former NBA All-Star Antoine Walker can proceed. A circuit judge recently said he could not take action on the back child support and delinquent school...