Losing your child custody battle can be devastating, but if the judge who decided your case made an unlawful or unfair decision -- or if something went wrong during the litigation process that falls outside of the law -- you may be in a good position to appeal the results of your case. Although not many child custody decisions provide the factual backdrop to support a child custody decision appeal, these scenarios are not unheard of.
When can I file a child custody decision appeal?
If you're a parent with young children who is facing divorce proceedings, one of the most important decisions on your mind probably relates to child custody. Should you adopt a 50-50 parenting structure where your children live with you half the time and your spouse the rest, giving your children the benefit of equal time with both their parents? Or, should you do an every-other-weekend plan and have your children live in one home?
Let's take a closer look at these two parenting agreement strategies, including the benefits and advantages of both:
If someone is late on his or her vehicle loan payments, it could result in the bank taking possession of the car. After the car loan goes into default, the bank will contract a repossession man or woman to arrive -- usually when you least expect it -- and commandeer your car.
Your bank has the legal right to repossess your car if you become delinquent on your loan. However, there's one way to stop vehicle repossession: Filing for bankruptcy.
The short answer is you can't just throw it in the dumpster. Usually a landlord needs to keep a tenant's left behind property for a period of time. However, if the property is valuable, that property can be another source to collect unpaid rents or for damage caused by the tenant. Failing to follow the appropriate process can make landlords liable to tenants for the value of the property, attorney fees and even additional punitive damages of $1,000 or more. In most cases, making every effort to encourage tenants to take all of their personal property can help landlords avoid the headaches of storage and disposal. When tenants leave property, however, being prepared to conduct the proper process can also save landlords time and money.
Many people have heard of condemned property, or eminent domain. That is the government's power to take or use privately owned property if it is for a "public purpose." Expansion of roads or construction of controlled access interchanges is generally considered a public purpose if conducted on public roadways. An example of one such project is that currently underway on Highways 169 and 41 in Scott County, Minnesota. Utilizing federal funding, Scott County is seeking to change access to U.S. Highway 169 by constructing overpasses and interchanges. To complete the project, Scott County will need to acquire and use adjacent property owned by private individuals and businesses.
According to a psychiatrist from the Advocate Medical Group, different times of the year could put more strain on a relationship than others. In fact, most Minnesota divorce lawyers will tell you that January and February are among the most popular times for couples to initiate their divorce proceedings. So, if you're considering divorce in the beginning of the year, you're not alone.
There's always a new reason you can invent to avoid planning your estate or creating your last will. You may hope to add new members to your family or think about acquiring new assets in the next year or two, such as a vacation home. Surely, you tell yourself, it's better to wait to have that all handled before starting to create a will or estate plan.
In reality, your family and assets will always be in a state of flux. Babies are born, while other people leave via divorce or death. If you wait until nothing in your life is going to change to create a will, you won't ever get around to this critical task. If you plan to marry soon, have children or own substantial assets, such as a house, you should take the time to plan your estate now. You can always update it in the future.
When you are in a divorce, there are many major decisions to make. As a CBS MoneyWatch article notes, one of the more fundamental ones is the decision of where to live moving forward.
There are generally two main choices for a post-divorce living situation. You could either keep living at the home you were in during the marriage, or you could move to a new place. Each of these routes has a set of additional decisions connected to it.
If you decide to pursue staying in the marital home, there are decisions to make on what sort of arrangements to try to reach with one's ex regarding things such as the ownership of the home and who will cover mortgage payments moving forward. If you decide instead to move to a new place, there are decisions such as whether to buy a new home or instead to rent a place.
Lots of small businesses forego counsel at their peril - not always because of conscious choice, but frequently out of naïveté. Owners and managers of businesses of all stripes often overestimate their personal talents in contracting by conflating their strong skills in negotiation and fostering business relationships, which they are often strong at, with strength in contract drafting - the process of reducing an agreement to an enforceable writing. One "cardinal rule" of negotiation is don't give your number first, that way you make the other side set the ceiling on the negotiations. However, a cardinal rule in contract making is the drafter starts at a position of dominance - there is a first strike advantage.
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