Child Custody

Only a person who has experienced a divorce can understand how emotionally trying it can be. Spouses don't spend their marriage believing they will divorce, so finances and assets become extremely intertwined, making it difficult to split. Furthermore, any divorce that involves children may require a very careful approach. Most legal action involves two strangers who were involved in a car accident together or an employee and their employer. Although these types of cases can be exhausting for all parties involved, divorce stands out as a particularly difficult process. No matter what type of relationship a person has with their spouse, there is an inherent amount of emotional investment ...

In this video, divorce attorney Meredith Weiner discusses if you need a custody order to leave the state. A party does not need a custody order to leave the state, however a party needs a custody order to bring his/her children out of the state. If you leave the state without your children you are making a stronger argument for your spouse to gain primary custody.

Divorce attorney Meredith Weiner explains in this video when a party can modify child support. There are three events that can trigger a modification to child support in Las Vegas: (1) a change in income of more than 20%; (2) any change in the custodial arrangement and (3) every three years a party can file a motion to reevaluate child support.

Well, it starts with a husband and wife filling out our joint petition worksheet, which is on our website. This worksheet will walk them through all the different areas that they need to agree to and gives them a little bit of advice on how to agree to it or what to agree to. They fill this out, they send it to us, and we draft up the documents. It takes us about four to five days to have those documents ready, and we send it back to the husband and wife to review. They make any suggested changes; they give us any edits, maybe we spelled something wrong, and we fix that. But the most important thing is that the terms of the uncontested divorce are agreed to – that they have reached an ...

In this video, divorce attorney Rock Rocheleau discusses a COPE certificate. In Nevada, parents getting a divorce that have children or parents that are finalizing a custody order have to go through a parenting class, known as a COPE class. The class is completed online and teaches how to coparent.

In this video, divorce attorney Rock Rocheleau discusses fixed fee divorce attorneys. Right Divorce Lawyers is a fixed fee divorce attorney. Fixed fees are based on specific tasks for the divorce. Other law firms may work on an hourly basis. The fixed fee amounts provided by Right Divorce Lawyers is the amount you will be charged even if the task takes longer than expected.

In this video, divorce attorney Meredith Weiner discusses jurisdiction in custody cases. Jurisdiction of a custody case is based on where a child was born or has resided for the 6 month period prior to the filing.

Well, contested divorces start around $3500. A husband or wife will hire us to file the complaint for divorce. That's a document where we draft out all the claims that they want, like child custody, primary or joint, whether they want alimony, whether they want exclusive possession of the home, or whether they want the home divided in equity. Those are going to start around $3500 and that's a fixed fee. But that may be all they need to pay or it may not be all they need to pay. Because there may be more to the case. We may file those divorce papers, serve their spouse with it, try and negotiate a case in the beginning and the spouse will have nothing to do with it. She won't agree to ...