Death, Divorce & Due Process

Domestic Violence During COVID             What is “domestic violence”?  It is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another.  Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and this is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control.   Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma and sometimes death.  National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV). Restrictions aimed at stopping the coronavirus from spreading may be the very thing that is causing violence in homes to increase and become more severe.  Historically domestic violence goes up whenever families spend more time together, we have seen these trends at Christmas, summer vacations or school breaks.   Currently 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men experience physical...

Stimulus Check and Child Support I have been getting a lot of questions about the stimulus check and how it is being handled for families with a child support arrearage.  You have seen on the news reports that a person will not get their stimulus check if they have a past due balance for child support.  That is not exactly true.  A person will in fact get their stimulus check, it is simply that it may not be delivered directly to them.  I spoke with an attorney with the child support division and learned that it appears they are going to handle stimulus checks like they do tax intercepts.  What does all that mean?  The stimulus check instead of going to the person who is behind in their support, it will go to the child support office handling their child support case.  Once the check arrives at the child support office, a notice will be sent out to that parent informing them that their check has been intercepted and is being held by the child sup...