Leaders In Massachusetts Family Law
In life, hardly anything ever remains the same. The one constant we can always anticipate is change, which is why family courts allow former spouses to request post-divorce modifications. If you were ordered to pay alimoany, but believe financial circumstances changed...
If the father and mother of the child are married, the father automatically has custody rights to the child. However, the same is not true for a father who has a child out of wedlock. This is because determining parentage can be more difficult for fathers than...
In Massachusetts, same-sex divorce follows the same process as any other divorce, i.e. the couple must petition for divorce, attend mediation or court proceedings, and agree to final decisions. However, couples may still run into issues when agreeing to the terms of...
In Massachusetts, there are 8,700 children in foster care, the majority of whom will be reunited with their biological family at some point. Unfortunately, some foster children will never be able to return to their biological families, at which point adoption becomes...
Contrary to popular belief, filing an appeal is not as simple as getting a “redo” or “second chance” after a trial concludes. Instead, an appeal asks a higher court to review a case using the exact same information the lower case received in order to identify a legal...
If you are interested in filing for divorce this year, you must consider the new tax laws which are now fully enacted. Signed into law on December 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reverses the divorce law which was introduced nearly a century ago in order provide more...
At Barach Law Group LLC, we understand how frightened a person can be prior to filing a family law case. Whether it’s a spouse or a family member, while you had established a loving relationship with that particular individual, the reason why you have reached this...
If you recently got married and your new spouse has children whom you would like to adopt, you must have the consent of not only your spouse, but the child’s other parent, unless the other parent abandoned the child. Why is consent so critical in these types of cases?...
If you are concerned divorce may be on the horizon, it is essential you remain as prepared as ever. Whether you are the one considering serving your spouse with papers or you received them yourselves, the last thing you want is to be blindsided by certain aspects...
Divorce is easily one of the most complicated, stressful, and contentious situations for anyone to go through, especially if there are children involved. In the past, courts were unfair in their judgement of child custody as they often awarded primary custody to...
