A child custody hearing represents one of the most significant of proceedings held in divorce, legal separation, or paternity cases. Because of the significant nature of a child custody hearing, a parent needs to be well...

The Short Answer The short answer to the question of what date does a court use to establish a change in circumstances to modify alimony in Arizona is the date the original spousal maintenance orders were issued in a divorce...

Mediation is most appropriate and a recommended process of resolving child custody disputes. Parents are aware of this fact but most of them aren’t sure what it is or how to initiate it. It is a process whereby legal...

The Arizona Court of Appeals in a memorandum decision in the case of In re the marriage of Kasper and Ausema had to address a trial court’s decision to deny a mother a relocation of a child while changing primary...

We would hope that all relationships between children and their parents would be positive. However, there are cases involving a serious disruption to the relationship between a parent and his or her children. This can occur...

The Arizona Court of appeals in the case of Grow vs. Grow addressed in a memorandum decision the issue of mandatory sanctions in an Arizona family law case. The trial court dismissed Jared Robert Grow (father)’s petition to...

Parents sometimes reach an agreement concerning the custody of their children. The parents, however, sometimes cannot agree on what custody orders are best for their children in which case the court will decide the child...

In a memorandum decision from the Arizona Court of Appeals in the case of Blair vs. Blair, the appeals court addressed what constitutes an error is a court order in a family law case in Arizona. Father appeals from the family...

In a memorandum decision in the case of Heuchan vs. Lipko, the Arizona Court of Appeals had to address the issues of whether a judge can modify parenting time when a parent seeks to relocate the children out of state despite...

The Arizona Court of Appeals in the case of Durrant vs. Durrant had to, among other issues, deal with the legal principle known as the Law of the Case Doctrine in an Arizona divorce. In that case, Taylor Durrant (Father)...