Multi-State Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

Parties going through a divorce or contested family law matter are ordinarily going to be going through a range of emotions.  When everything you hold near and dear to you suddenly is put in the balance, this can cause emotional turmoil. This emotional turmoil can cause a party to reach out to third parties to ease their pain and insecurities.  In other words, versus being confident and secure that they are taking the right action, people often seek the advice from multiple different sources. However, the reality is a party has to communicate effectively with that attorney.  It is vital

The scenario of two families harmoniously melding into one new entity, just like the Brady Bunch, usually differs from the reality most step and non-traditional families experience. Family therapists have long recognized the unrealistic idea the term “blended family” puts forward and the term has mostly fallen out of favor. It conjures up the vision of unrelated children seamlessly coming together into a family headed by two parents, one of whom is often largely unknown to the children. The reality is that life in a blended family is not always rosy. Demographers have found that individuals who remarry have a

Justina Pelletier, a Connecticut teenager caught in the middle of a year-long custody battle between her parents and the Massachusetts child-protection agency, won a minor victory on Friday when the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) announced plans to return 15-year-old Justina Pelletier back to her home state of Connecticut. This came as the result of heightened media attention triggering 16 state legislators to draft a resolution in an attempt to strip Justina’s custodial rights from the Massachusetts DCF. According to Keith Mason, President of Personhood USA and advocate for the Pelletier family, “This is a situation where a