Mississippi Family Law Blog

Recent Posts from Mississippi Family Law Blog

• Were marriages in Texas after 2005 legal?

  Marriages in Texas since 2005 may not be legal Texas may have itself a big problem. In 2005, it approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages. Under the amendment, it states in the first part:…

• More Fathers getting primary custody of their children in divorces

  More Fathers get custody of children in divorces In Mississippi, as well as other states, more women are working and becoming the primary breadwinner in the family. One downside some women are finding in working…

• Splitting the pots and pans in a divorce

  Dividing personal property in a divorce A fellow divorce attorney from South Carolina, Ben Stevens, wrote a nice post about dividing personal property in a divorce. Check it out here....

• Mississippi Supreme Court sends case back to Chancellor for a third trial

  Lamar County divorce case partially remanded back to Chancellor for third look Sometimes a case just never ends. That has to be the feeling for a divorce case out of Lamar County, Mississippi. Last week,…

• Child Support in Mississippi based on Adjusted Gross Income, not Gross Income

  Mississippi Court reverses Chancellor for not making deductions before calculating child support The Mississippi Court of Appeals reversed a Jones County Chancellor for failing to make the statutory deductions from the non-custodial parent's gross income…

• Casinos collecting child support from winners in Colorado

  New law authorizes casinos to collect child support from winners Colorado enacted a new law that requires casinos to do a computer check of any person winning more than $1,200. If they are delinquent, the…

• Facebook poke violates protective order

  Tennessee woman faces contempt for Facebook "poke" A 36-year-old Tennessee woman was arrested and charged with violating a protective order that prohibited her from "telephoning, contacting or otherwise communicating with the petitioner." How did she…

• Texas judge clears way for two gay men to divorce

  Texas judge declares same-sex marriage ban violates equal protection clause Texas, just as Mississippi, has a ban on gay marriage. In Texas, voters approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and the Texas Family Code…

• Susan Stanford files malpractice case against divorce attorneys

  Multimillion dollar lawsuit against divorce attorneys Susan Stanford, wife of jailed Houston, Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, filed a malpractice lawsuit against her previous divorce attorneys alleging they failed to inform her of a $200…

• Judge awards joint custody of dog

  Dog shares time with split owners Here is another story of an expensive custody battle except in this case it was over a dog. A New Jersey couple spent the last three years battling over…