tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39674268297905780592024-03-13T10:12:17.641-07:00Family Law Guywith Richard Gould-Saltman
Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-22511406778526878542015-11-19T14:21:00.002-08:002015-11-19T14:34:00.958-08:00How Do I Refer...? III. Someone Who Isn’t Separated, and Hasn’t Reached a Decision About Ending Their Marriage?
Counseling a client who is contemplating separation or divorce, or even “maybe thinking” about one, is among the most sensitive tasks family law attorneys face, and it draws as much on our counseling skill-set as it does on our lawyering. The reasons for ending a marriage are even more varied than the reasons for starting one, and the level of emotion can be just as high, or higher.Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-38606406572297460722015-09-10T13:01:00.002-07:002015-10-06T11:03:05.703-07:00How Do I Refer...? II. A Client With Alcohol/Drug/Significant Mental Health Issues?
Mental illness, drugs and alcohol. They are the fodder of the divorce tabloids, and a source of anxiety for clients with family law issues who also are struggling with these problems. Family law clients, particularly parents, fear a public parading of their substance or psychological health issues by their soon-to-be-exes. even if nobody’s holding a press conference in which Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-69948381019471398162015-08-17T10:59:00.001-07:002016-02-16T15:04:47.531-08:00"How Do I Refer....?" I: Re-Locating ParentsTen Posts directed to trusted advisors, addressing issues of referring "clients with issues", to whom G.S.L.O. can provide ingenuity and practicality in advice and assistance:
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HOW DO I REFER A PARENT WHO WANTS TO RELOCATE WITH A CHILD?
Recent news stories about the ongoing Kelly Rutherford litigation have brought parental relocation issues to the public Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-90375387964437485832015-04-07T14:30:00.001-07:002016-03-16T11:37:11.225-07:00Vaccination and Parents' Rights: Who Decides?
Courts are being asked to decide vaccination issues between disagreeing parents in child custody cases . These disagreements are catching the public's eye and ears in the wake of the Disneyland measles outbreak, and the public opposition to mandatory vaccination by prominent or at least visible people, who are mostly not scientists.
If you have parenting or custody issues connectedRichard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-26595789274951854252015-01-15T12:10:00.000-08:002015-10-06T14:33:34.548-07:00Pet Custody? What's The Standard?
Recent changes in the California version of the Domestic Violence Prevention Act now permit a judge making a restraining order, to make an order for "... the exclusive care, possession, or control of any animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by either the petitioner or the respondent or a minor child residing in the residence.... The court may order the respondent to stay away from theRichard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-42185268785644568422014-11-19T17:14:00.000-08:002015-08-25T10:19:49.063-07:00Spend More Time talking About The Relationship, and Less Money on the Ring, the Wedding (and the Divorce?)
An Emory University study suggests that there is an inverse correlation between the amount a couple spends on the engagement ring and the wedding, and the chance that the marriage will last. I have my own theories about why this correlation may exist, but it does re-emphasize my "sermon" about pre-marital planning. While sitting down and talking about what you intend in the Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-20129348036824012292014-10-01T09:47:00.000-07:002014-10-01T09:47:33.585-07:00"Conscious Coupling" What Is Marriage Supposed To Do? Does It Still Do It?One of the recurring themes of this blog has been "Why do people get married? What will help then accomplish whatever it is they want to accomplish by marrying?"
It appears that the number of Americans, over-all, who believe that marriage does what they want done, continues to shrink, even as the broader recognition of same-sex marriage would seem logically to have increased it. Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-54974979161714053392014-09-23T14:45:00.000-07:002014-09-23T16:22:03.152-07:00Gambling Winnings and Child Support Ohio has now implemented an intercept program so that winners at the four casinos in Ohio may trigger data base checks. If the winner wins $1,200 or more from slot machines, $5,000 or more from table games or $600 or more from high-stakes games, then their name is checked against a data base for child support owed. If anything is owed, it is taken out of the Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-83063838226009154962014-08-25T15:17:00.000-07:002014-08-25T15:17:39.173-07:00Exercising Self-Help in Custody Cases Kathleen Aubain is in the Oneida County Jail in New York for violating a court order. Aubain has a two and a half year old daughter, Isabellah Rose Campos with Eric Campos. All three were living in Arizona. Campos has custody of Isabellah. Aubain’s mother says the only reason Campos has custody is because Aubain didn’t bring Isabellah back to him at the end ofKaren Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-13144949802031794052014-08-15T15:48:00.003-07:002014-09-12T10:12:59.297-07:00Child Custody And Religion (Again): What Should Happen When One Parent Converts? We've got another child custody and religion case from New York, about, at least ostensibly, what should happen when one parent, but not the other, decides to "change horses mid-stream" in terms of the child's religious upbringing.
A closer reading of the facts suggests that other facts played a much greater role in the decision than the religion issue did, and that the judge Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-2229292589373334022014-08-12T13:38:00.001-07:002014-08-12T13:38:44.522-07:00Grandparent Custodial Rights Interesting read regarding grandparent rights. The Court of Appeals upheld a Dependency Court order granting a grandmother visitation rights. It’s a case right here in Los Angeles County involving DCFS.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2014/visitation080814.htmGrandparent rights come up relatively regularly, but I don't believe that this case will necessarily Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-60252581072453913422014-07-21T17:07:00.000-07:002014-07-21T17:07:15.018-07:00Interference with Child Custody Maria Jose Carrascosa, 48, is a native of Spain and lived in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She had a child, a daughter, with Peter Innes while in New Jersey and the couple separated in 2004. They signed a parenting agreement prohibiting either parent from taking the child out of the country without the consent of the other. In 2005, while custody was still unresolved, Carrascosa took Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-25204378564001236682014-07-15T17:19:00.000-07:002014-09-11T16:35:05.616-07:00Should a Very Young Child Give Preference Testimony? Professional basketball player, Chris Bosh, has been in a custody battle over his young year old daughter with the child’s mother, Allison Mathis. Apparently Mathis is requesting that their daughter, Trinity, (either four or five years old), testify in court.
http://cocoafab.com/uh-oh-chris-boshs-baby-mother-seeks-to-have-their-child-testify-in-custody-battle/httpKaren Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-23588087043231563262014-07-07T16:01:00.000-07:002014-07-07T16:01:20.937-07:00Update on Failure to Make Child Support Payments An update on my previous blog from last week (July 1)! Apparently, Houston resident, Clifford Hall, who was jailed for failing to pay child support has been released after one week. Hall’s wages were being withheld to pay the child support but, due to some type of clerical error by his employer, the wages were improperly withheld or not being paid to the mother.&Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-30577673965491680682014-07-03T14:37:00.001-07:002014-09-11T16:35:35.896-07:00"Grey" Divorce and Retirement PlansFrom today's New York TimesRichard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-43828054277087713642014-07-01T14:57:00.000-07:002014-07-01T14:57:25.998-07:00Failure to Make Child Support Payments Clifford Hall from Houston, Texas was sentenced to six months in jail for failure to pay his child support. He fell behind and owed more than $3,000 in child support. His wages were garnished but his company failed to submit the money to the court for his ex-wife to collect. Hall has become current plus an extra $1,000 but could not avoid facing jail time Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-41586576631495343532014-06-19T09:49:00.003-07:002014-06-19T09:57:12.064-07:00International Child Custody and Child Abduction: Who Are The "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy" Countries? The Most Recent Hague Convention ReportThe most recent State Department Report on Compliance with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction shows that even those countries which have signed off on the Convention do not always comply with it. Even Western Hemisphere countries, including Costa
Rica, Guatemala, and Honduras, are inconsistent in their compliance. If you're in a dispute Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-63921240876756597782014-06-18T17:11:00.001-07:002014-06-20T17:10:11.904-07:00Consequences of Intentionally Avoiding SupportBuena Park city council member, Sangjin Miller Oh, age 50, was convicted of five counts of perjury by declaration. Between September 23, 2004 and July 20, 2009, Oh signed official DMV documents using fraudulent information on five separate occasions. He did this to avoid paying child support to his ex-wife by hiding his assets under a false name. Apparently, Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-22122374180903838102014-06-13T14:45:00.001-07:002014-06-13T14:45:52.340-07:00Child Support Owed to an Incarcerated Parent Tracey Richter is serving life in prison in Iowa for the 2001 murder of 20 year old Dustin Wehde. Richter has been receiving child support arrears payments from her ex-husband, Michael Roberts who began paying back the child support owed after their divorce. After she had received $2,000 in payments from Roberts, a judge ordered that Richter no longer has any Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-66439221858265627142014-06-09T13:27:00.000-07:002014-06-19T10:21:16.657-07:00If You're Going To Get Married, Please Do It CorrectlyThis new case from New York stands for the (reasonably obvious?) proposition that if you scrupulously avoid doing any of those things which would cause you to have a valid marriage, then you're not married, even if you have a big elaborate "wedding", presided over by an internet-ordained "clergyperson", who also fails to do any of those things.
The take-away, for me, is the Court's Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-74882289465142209872014-06-04T13:52:00.000-07:002014-06-04T13:52:26.795-07:00Child Support for a Non-Biological ChildBrian F., a Minnesota man, signed an affidavit of paternity in 1995, five months after a baby boy was born. That child is now 19 years old. Brian was ordered to pay child support and in 2009, the state removed the boy from his mother’s custody and the state asked for an increase of child support from Brian F. to $369 per month. In 2011, Brian requested the child support be Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-8961292599621812402014-05-28T11:28:00.000-07:002014-05-28T11:28:50.045-07:00Incarcerated Birth Parents' Rights to Their Children Kim and Dave Hodgin became the foster parents of Sonya before she was two. She was adopted by them in 2008. Before the adoption was finalized, Sonya’s birth father, John McCaul pled guilty to transporting firearms and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Under Tennessee law, parents who are incarcerated for more than ten years do not have any rights toKaren Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-31916174429685795692014-05-19T15:47:00.001-07:002014-05-19T15:47:37.608-07:00No More Babies if You Owe Support? In September 2012, an Ohio man, Asim Taylor, 36 years old now, pled guilty to four charges of non-payment of child support for his four children and was sentenced to five years of probation. In January 2013, Taylor agreed and was ordered to pay $1,700 of his $96,000 arrearage by October 16, 2013 or else he would serve 30 days in jail (a process called a “purge”). Karen Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-18327926331956011862014-05-13T14:00:00.000-07:002014-05-13T14:00:10.980-07:00Validity of Custody Orders Issued by a Tribal Court Layla Billie and Kevin Stier had two children. Billie is a Native American part of the Miccosukee tribe in Florida. Stier is non-Native American. They were never married and it’s unclear whether they ever lived together. Billie initiated custody proceedings in Miccosukee Tribal Court on October 1, 2012. The Tribal Court accepted jurisdictionKaren Cynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00179597398178099810noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3967426829790578059.post-287367657547701592014-05-05T16:23:00.002-07:002014-06-10T11:04:35.216-07:00"Coupling" and "Uncoupling", Conscious Or Not“Conscious Uncoupling” is the most recent "flavor of the month” to be launched into the popular terminology and fashion in divorce, following on the heels of “Integrative divorce”, “collaborative divorce”, and the division of “mediation” among “transformative”, “evaluative”, “facilitative”, and “adjudicative” mediation. Leaving aside for a moment some of the more eccentric and Richard Gould-Saltmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04962050153663635164noreply@blogger.com1