Family Law
Family Law is a area of law that covers legal issues concerning families and domestic relationships. Family law deals with a wide range of situations.
Some of the most common:
- Divorce and Legal Separation – The end or restructuring of a marriage, such as the division of property, managing spousal support, and creating parenting plans if children are involved.
- Child Custody – Determining who makes decisions for a child (legal custody), where a child will live (physical custody), and when each parent will have time with the child.
- Child Support – Making sure children are financially provided for in terms of their care, such as food, housing, health care, and education.
- Adoption – The creation of a lifelong parent–child relationship through private adoption, step-parent adoption, or agency adoption.
- Guardianships – The process of appointing someone to care for a child or adult who cannot care for themselves when the existing guardian cannot.
- Paternity – Establishing a child's legal father
- Parental Rights – dealing with when parental rights need to be protected, established, or maybe even ended in the best interests of the child.
- Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
- Domestic Violence and Protective Orders
- Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
