June 3, 2010
PHOENIX — Divorce attorneys no longer need to hire private investigators to get the dirt on spouses who may be cheating.
All they need now is a computer.
Liz Steele, of Mesa, is going through a divorce and she has no problem with her attorney looking up everything he can on her husband.
“I have nothing against lawyers [...]
May 21, 2010
Maybe you all know this already, but I have had several cases where the issue of dividing social security benefits has been raised (especially in cases where one spouse earned significantly more than the other during the marriage). Below is a brief summary, and follow-up website to provide clients with should they ask these questions.
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November 14, 2007
A law giving grandparents visitation rights in divorce cases doesn’t allow them to block a custodial parent form moving out of the state, taking the child along, the state Court Of Appeals ruled Tuesday.
In a unanimous decision, the judges said the ability to prevent a move is limited to the non-custodial parent.
Stanley Murray, [a Cantor Simon [...]
August 3, 2007
In our highly mobile society wherein people and their families relocate from time to time, it is not uncommon for a party to attempt to modify or enforce an out-of-state divorce decree or paternity order in Arizona. In the case of Melgar v. Campo, 1 CA-CV 06-0408 (filed July 26, 2007), an issue arose over [...]
June 19, 2007
A recent decision by the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, upheld the use of the Maricopa County Spousal Maintenance Guidelines for the calculation of a spousal maintenance award, so long as the factors listed in A.R.S. 25-319(B) were considered in making that award. The Guidelines, which have never been officially adopted by court rule, [...]