Mississippi Family Law Blog
Discusses family law issues, cases, and news in Mississippi.
Author: Robert M. Kisselburgh practices at the Kisselburgh Law Firm in Jackson, Miss.
Blawg Related Categories: Family Law • States • Mississippi • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Mississippi Family Law Blog
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Special Needs Trusts
The Wall Street Journal recently published a good article on special needs trusts, sometimes called supplemental trusts. If you have a child with a disability or special needs, you need to read this article as…
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Man claims he was asleep during sex--women later has his child
Reading like a headline out of the National Enquirer, this case out of Canada leaves more questions than provides answers. Here are the facts as related in the story.Man and woman have sex; Woman has…
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Husband pays alimony in pennies
Judge to Husband--check or jail! An man upset with the judge's ruling awarding his ex-wife $5,000 in lump sum alimony decided to seek some revenge. He delivered the $5,000 in a barrel containing 500,000 pennies.…
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Mediation in a Divorce Case
Divorce can be financially and emotionally draining. Emotions often run high during divorce litigation and these emotions create roadblocks to resolution. The longer a case drags on, the more expensive it becomes. The cost of…
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Standard Visitation in Mississippi divorces
What is standard visitation? Although shared physical custody is occurring more now than in the past, the typical child custody situation following divorce in Mississippi is an order of joint legal custody (decision-making authority) and…
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Prenuptial Agreements
Prenuptial Agreements--protecting your assets before divorce Contrary to popular belief, prenuptial agreements aren’t only for the rich and famous. A prenuptial agreement (also called a premarital or antenuptial agreement – just to make things more…
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Estate Planning after a Second Marriage
It may be time to review your Will Chances are that you have a Will somewhere that you had drawn up when your children were born. Depending on how long ago that was, you should…
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Joint or Shared Physical Custody
Working together for your children--joint or shared physical custody Shared physical custody of children following a divorce has become more prevalent over the last decade. While joint legal custody (which provides joint decision-making authority for…
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Divorce or be sentenced to Death?
Think you have it bad? A Nigerian man has been ordered to divorce 82 of his 86 wives or face the death penalty. Under the law, he is only entitled to have 4 wives. Amazing.…
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Parental Alienation
Parental Alienation--pitting your child against the other parent Parental alienation – a hot topic in family law across the nation - is defined as a systematic alienation of a child from one parent, purposely caused…