Can you provide an overview of the different areas within family law? – The McKinney Law Group

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00:00:02:  Family law encompasses a wide range of areas um I would say the biggest one that I deal with would be divorce dissolving your marriage and within a divorce there are several different things a court will look at the first one’s going to be parenting if you have children uh the court will determine a time sharing schedule and then if you do have assets or liabilities the court will divide those if there’s going to be any claim for alimony that gets addressed and then also child support and then finally anything else including

00:00:32: Like attorney’s fees and costs so divorce is usually my bread and butter the big area of family law that I deal with but there are also others such as paternity cases and that simply means if you and another person have children but you’re not married the court has jurisdiction to come in and they can order a parenting plan they can order child support they can order expenses for your children’s at for example health insurance or how do you divide extracurricular activities things like that fa under that umbrella of paternity

00:01:02: And parenting sometimes people want to come back and modify their divorce decree we can discuss that as well it’s often a very big threshold to do that but it does happen frequently another area in family law would be prenups and postnups those are contracts that you enter into that Define what happened in the event that you do divorce and then we also touch on things like wills and you know trust in Estates and a basic basic estate planning as well [Music]