Every day a couple divorces in the United States, leaving 1.5 million children to grow up in split families. While parents deal with the process of dividing assets and ending their marriage, children are often left wondering where to pick up the pieces.  If you are going through a divorce, here are seven ways to […]

Today’s Iowa Supreme Court decision in Schott v. Schott, available in PDF format here, concerns prior “second parent adoptions” issued by an Iowa court and another Iowa court’s subsequent collateral attack on the validity of the adoptions in a later child custody proceeding.  In the case, the two female parties obtained valid, unappealed, and unchallenged […]

It’s not uncommon for police to arrest fathers who refuse to pay their child support, but what about mothers? A new trend has the state searching for around 27,000 deadbeat mothers.In the past 10 years, deadbeat mothers have become more common, and judges more often are giving custody to fathers and ordering the mothers to […]

A three-day custody battle between a 27-year-old Raywood woman and the Houston father of her two sons ended Friday evening at a Beaumont Jack in the Box after she called police. “It’s kind of interesting how it happened,” said Cpl. Hugh Bishop of the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department. It all started on Tuesday, when Keisha […]

I know you love her. I know that she’s your baby’s-momma. I know you think she loves you. But trust me, women are evil – during a divorce or breakup and will crush your balls and take your money if you allow them. Consider this, with divorce on the rise, more than 50% of all […]

Tina O’Brien, 26, and Ryan Thomas, 25, have split following a fiery relationship. Their baby Scarlett is just 13-months-old. The ex-couple met when they played on-screen lovers, hairdresser Sarah-Louise Platt and builder Jason Grimshaw, on the ITV soap Coronation Street for six years. Tina is reported to have moved out of their home in Cheshire, […]