Posted on April 04, 2013 in Personal Injury

1. First of all, you should contact a lawyer when your workplace injury is severe enough that surgery is required.
2. Second, if you and your doctor has determined that you will not return to the condition that you were in before your injury, even if the injury is moderate to severe, a lawyer should be contacted.
3. You should talk to a lawyer if you will no longer be able to go back to work at your current job.
4. If you think you cannot go back to work full time but work in some capacity.

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 Posted on March 31, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 27, 2013 in Family Law

Kim Kardashian’s marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries made headlines—especially when, after just 72 days of marriage, Kardashian filed for divorce. She is hoping to be divorced before July, when her baby with Kanye West is due.

A judge has now decided May 6 will be the start of the trial, which he believes allows Humphries’ lawyer adequate time to prepare a case. However, Humphries is claiming that the marriage was nothing more than a publicity stunt for her show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” and wants the marriage annulled instead. Since Kardashian is denying this claim, Humphries attorney also asked if the trial date could be postponed until after basketball season. The judge declined, stating that even firefighters and police officers have to take time off when dealing with divorce cases.

His attorney, Marshall Waller, was not pleased. “This is a fraud case," Waller told the court. "It really is. And that is a case that takes a lot of time to develop. We are not ready to go forward. We do need more time.”

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 Posted on March 27, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 24, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 21, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 20, 2013 in Family Law

The creator of the Skinnygirl margaritas, Bethenny Frankel, has announced she is divorcing her husband of three years, Jason Hoppy, a pharmaceutical sales rep. Fans also watched the couple’s romance and marriage play out on Frankel’s reality television shows featured on Bravo, "Bethenny Getting Married?" "Bethenny Ever After" and "Bethenny."

According to a report in the Huffington Post, the two are still living together and will share custody of their two year-old daughter.

In a May 2012 interview with People magazine, Frankel discussed the struggles she faced in her marriage. "Money, family, gender roles, we just keep fighting over them," she told the magazine. "It's almost like a scab that you keep picking at."

Frankel met Hoppy at a nightclub in November 2008, and they two became engaged 11 months later.

Many are predicting that Frankel’s fortune will be a major issue in divorce proceedings. She hit Forbes Magazine Celebrity 100 list last year. And Business Insider reports she sold her Skinnygirl product line to Jim Beam in March 2011 for a reported $120 million. Later SEC filings proved the acquisition of just the brand name was $8 million. There are reports that Hoppy did sign a pre-nuptial agreement before the couple was married.

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 Posted on March 18, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 15, 2013 in Personal Injury

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 Posted on March 14, 2013 in Family Law

A UK newspaper reported a story about surprisingly intense reactions to grandparents keeping in contact with their grandchildren after a divorce. Even though this story is not domestic news, issues regarding divorce in first world countries remain more or less the same.

According to the Telegraph, police in the UK are being called to investigate cases where grandparents are approaching their grandchildren with postcards or presents as harassment. Grandparents often find themselves cut off by the parent who has the custody of a child, but it looks like things are getting worse. In some cases the elderly have been forced to hand over DNA samples or fingerprints, and some have even been threatened with arrest or called to a police station after sending a card or a present to their grandchildren. Some of the grandparents feel they have been humiliated for having to talk to officers regarding something like this.

If the custodial parent unreasonably denies visitation for a grandparent or a sibling, it is possible to petition for visitation. There are criteria for the petition, out of which one must be met. Examples of these criteria are: the parent that is related to the grandparent is mentally incompetent, dead or incarcerated; the parent related to the grandparent has lost parental rights by judicial act; the child is illegitimate and the parents are not living together. These are only a few of the criteria for such petition. For more information, contact an experienced divorce attorney.

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