If you've decided that you want to get a divorce from your spouse, you need to understand Louisiana's property laws. The division of your property is an important step in your divorce, but if you don't consider your property carefully, you could find yourself in a...
Family Law
Losing relationships: The impact of divorce on family
After a divorce, you sometimes lose more than just your spouse. When you were married, you had relationships with your spouse's parents, siblings, friends and others. When you go through a separation, those relationships could come to an end.In many cases, people are...
Emancipation is possible when minors want freedom
Entering the court while seeking emancipation is a serious situation. It's a process by which the court grants you the right to live as an adult despite the fact that you're a minor. There are cases in which an emancipation is necessary or appropriate. To receive an...
Court strikes down Louisiana’s anti-immigrant marriage law
In January 2016, a law went into effect in Louisiana that required a birth certificate from foreign-born residents before they could get a marriage license. While people who were born in the U.S. could get a judge's waiver if they couldn't get a birth certificate,...
Dating partners now under widened domestic abuse law in Louisiana
Louisiana Rep. Helena Moreno (D-New Orleans) proposed a few changes to the state's domestic abuse laws. Should House Bill 223 be signed into law by Gov. John Bel Edwards, the crimes of aggravated assault on a dating partner and battery of a dating partner will be...
Inmates might be relieved of their child support obligations
Demanding that a prison inmate continues to make child support payments when he or she has no way to earn an income might not make sense. The child support payments could add up over the months and years to become an insurmountable debt barrier to the inmate's...
Don’t fall into the social media divorce trap
Divorce has a tendency to bring out the worst in some people. They're hurt, they're angry and some want revenge for the wrongs that they perceive a spouse has inflicted upon them.That jumble of negative feelings can cause normally levelheaded and intelligent adults to...
Ex-football star pays past due support to get out of jail
Nobody gets a free pass on their child support and spousal support obligations, not even if you're former Saint's wide-receiver Robert Meachem.Meachem spent three days out of a possible thirty in jail before he decided he'd had enough of prison life and paid $100,000...
New ruling flouts 2008 law designed to protect victims
Which concern outweighs the other: the idea that a potentially innocent man could be forced to remain out of contact with his children while a false allegation of a violent marital rape moves through the criminal court system or the possibility that a criminal who...