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This Week's Blog by Christopher J. DeMattie Family Relations offers a wide variety of services to help resolve parenting, custody, and financial disputes in divorce and post-judgment actions. Depending on the service recommended, you can expect to meet with a Family...
There is a difference between recording in-person conversations and recording phone conversations. Clients often think that recordings will provide helpful evidence in a divorce proceeding. This is usually true only in extreme circumstances (such as abuse or serious...
This Week's Blog by Sarah E. Murray Provide requested information and documents promptly To the extent possible, make or respond to a settlement offer as early in your case as you and your attorney think is appropriate If both parties and their counsel are motivated...
This Week's Blog by Carole T. Orland During you divorce, conversations with your spouse may be contentious and uncomfortable. If you are in inherently uneven bargaining positions, it will often not be productive to negotiate the case with your spouse on your own. Any...
This Week's Blog by Christopher J. DeMattie The short calendar is a date when motions are scheduled to be heard. Non-emergency motions get filed with the clerk and then scheduled on the short calendar. Once a motion is scheduled on the short calendar, you have to mark...
This Week's Blog by Sarah E. Murray The Case Management Agreement is a document that must be filed in every Connecticut divorce case. The Case Management Agreement includes important dates for your case, but these dates are not set in stone. You and your spouse can...
Except in very limited circumstances, Connecticut divorce cases are public. The pleadings and documents filed with the Court during your divorce will almost always remain in a file which can be reviewed by the public. Hearings and Trials are open to the public. It is...
This Week's Blog by Eric J. Broder The term “child custody” can be broken down into two separate definitions, legal custody and physical custody. Legal custody addresses which parent has the right to make major decisions concerning the child(ren). Major decisions...
This Week's Blog by Carole T. Orland The complexity of your case is a cost factor but the size of the marital estate may not be a major factor. Cost may depend on opposing counsel. Retainers and hourly rates aren’t always indicators of projected costs. You can...
This Week's Blog by Jaime S. Dursht “Parental alienation is the process, and the result, of psychological manipulation of a child into showing unwarranted fear, disrespect or hostility towards a parent and/or other family members. It is a distinctive form of...
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