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Stepparents often serve as de facto parents. While the law does not provide a stepparent with the same protection as an adoptive or biological parent, they often fill the same role a parent typically does. They spend their time with their stepchildren and offer them...
Families are built in many ways, and love, not paperwork, is what defines parenthood day to day. But when the law hasn’t caught up to a family’s reality, that gap can create serious and unexpected risks. This is especially true for LGBTQ families, where one partner...
If you and your spouse are getting divorced, you know that you are going to have to split up marital assets. Some of these may be minor, like a savings account with a few thousand dollars in it. But others could be very valuable, such as a home that you and your...
Are you new to co-parenting during the holidays? Somehow, the ordinary holiday stressors seem to multiply when you add the element of divorce and custody schedules to the mix. Take heart, as you are far from the first divorced parent to dread the upcoming holiday...
If you are a parent diagnosed with mental illness — or co-parenting with a mentally ill former spouse or partner — you have additional challenges to overcome that many parents never face. Let’s dive deeper and explore how mental illness can affect your child custody...
Arkansas law has a strong preference for both parents to be actively involved in their children’s lives because it is seen as beneficial for the child. Courts recognize that children tend to thrive when they have stability, support and consistent contact with both...
Going through a divorce is one of life’s most stressful events, but that doesn’t mean that you have to be consumed by anxiety as you’re going through everything that has to be done. It’s not possible to completely eliminate stress in this situation, but it’s often...
What happens if parents cannot agree on child custody during a divorce? If parents cannot reach a child custody arrangement, they may need to go to court to have the matter settled. Even with joint custody as the starting point, a court may create a child custody...
You and your spouse are going through a divorce, and you know that you need to come up with a child custody plan moving forward. You have to decide where the child will live, which is known as physical custody. This is in addition to legal custody, or the...
In some states, only no-fault divorce is available. In Arkansas, spouses have options. They can file for fault-based divorces in cases involving general indignities, adultery, abuse, habitual drunkenness or felony convictions. It may also be possible for spouses to...