Blog Posts in 2014

Grandparents and Kinship Rights

Divorce is about two people who simply cannot make a relationship work any longer. Often, divorce is about two people who simply can’t make a relationship work anymore—and about those people’s children, who are simply swept along in the wake of their parents’ difficulties. And, almost just as often, divorce is also about two people—their children—and many, many other people—grandparents, cousins, ...

Ten Important Tips for Divorcing Parents

Divorce is almost always a heartbreaking, viscerally painful, emotionally fraught experience —and it can be even more so when children are involved. Divorce is painful, but there are ways, at least, of minimizing that pain. There are behaviors that will increase your and your children’s pain, and there are behaviors that will decrease it. Here, then, are five things you should not do during this ...

Don't Let the Wrong One In

The Family Court is much like the vampire of lore: it cannot come into your home unless someone invites it: once it’s in your home, you cannot force it to leave; and when it’s in, it can do things over which you will have no control. Because no one would knowingly invite such a destructive force as a vampire into their home, the vampire generally has to trick one of the occupants into inviting it. ...

Secrets to a Civil, Even Amicable Divorce

It is rare these days to hear about a divorce that was amicable and mutually decided upon by both spouses, although virtually all divorces want to start that way. With the help of Cortez & Hoskovec, LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico you can experience dissolution of your marriage in a civil way that will not burn bridges. It may sound impossible, but when you have experienced mediators like the ...