Divorce & Family Law That Fights For YouWe have represented hundreds of individuals with difficult family and spousal situations. Every situation is unique, and we provide effective and efficient legal service during your challenging time. We are here to help and serve, and our litigation and transactional law experience lends itself to benefit both agreeable and acrimonious situations. When you have needs related to family law or divorce, Richardson & Richardson, P.S.C. attorneys have the skill and ability to help you forge forward.
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Don't Bankrupt YourselfSeveral years ago, I had a divorce where the parties were in such bitter conflict that they were totally out of touch with reality. Their gross estate was approximately $1.5 million. I like to practice a practical and economical law, that is, there must be some economic reality to a dispute; otherwise, settle and settle quickly. Seeing the bitterness between the parties, I quickly calculated the numbers and produced a settlement figure that was fair and reflected the reality of their situation. A forensic analysis was done as well. My client was stubborn and was so emotional that he and his wife spent 1/3 of their wealth paying both attorneys, mediators, and experts to continue fighting. When the trial was concluded, the judgment was exactly what I had begged my client to accept. Instead, he wasted over $250,000 on a fight that produced nothing more than what he could have settled for. If you find yourself in an intractable dispute with your spouse in a divorce, get some counseling to help you deal with the realities of your situation, as the courts and attorneys can only do so much, and as an adage among attorneys goes, “often a bad settlement is better than a good trial.” In the situation described, that was clearly the case, and the parties would have been far better off today had they settled.
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Joint Custody is Different From ParentingMany are confused today thinking that joint custody means parenting time. It does not. Custody refers to who gets to make the major decisions regarding the upbringing of the children, such as schooling, medical care, and religion. Kentucky is a joint custody state wherein the law favors joint custody unless there is a compelling reason for there not to be. Likewise, as of a few years ago, Kentucky adopted 50/50 parenting time, and unless it could be established that one of the parents was not fit to have parenting time, supervised or not, the law required that each parent get equal parenting time with the child(ren).
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