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Divorce Requires Change in Plans Marriage creates a life plan of its own. You depend on your spouse to make necessary decisions when you can’t. Medical emergencies, life threatening illness, incapacity and death – your spouse was the plan. Divorce changes every aspect of your life. Who makes those decisions now? Who takes care of things when you can’t? Parents, siblings, friend? Divorce requires a change in plans. Estate planning is Life planning! Is Your Spouse in Your Will? Depending on length of marriage and other life circumstances, you may already have prepared a Last Will and Testament, or a Trust. Is your spouse includedRead More →

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Divorcing When A Child’s Biological Father is Not the Husband So you have decided the marriage is over. There is a child on the way. Or a child was recently born. A question must be answered: Is the husband the father of this child? For husbands this is usually a great big unknown. For wives this answer is often already known or suspected. Unfortunately, affairs occur and children conceived or born during the marriage may involve another person. Tennessee Law Presumes Husband as Father From the early days of common law, marital presumption of fatherhood means children born during marriage result from the marriage. ThisRead More →

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When the marriage reaches that critical moment.  When its time to call it quits?  To move on with life? Should you just move out and do nothing? How long should you wait to take legal action?  This all of course depends on your specific situation.  But lets look at the hazards of waiting to take legal action.  This by no means is intended to encourage a person to rush into a divorce or legal separation.  But, failing to act could cause a major problem.  Informal marital separation can and often does lead to unforeseen complications. Coronavirus Pandemic and Legal Separation v Divorce Due to the economicRead More →

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Chattanooga Family Law Attorney What is Family Law? A Family law attorney focuses on the area of legal practice that involves issues affecting the family.  Although the matters of law are somewhat typical,  the involvement of family relationships, and the emotionally charged issues add a level of uniqueness to every family law case.  This class of legal practice is also known as domestic relations law and includes: divorce spousal support child support custody division of assets and liabilities due to divorce adoption termination of parental rights paternity dependency and child neglect protection from domestic abuse Family Law Attorney Since 1982 Jim Purple has been practicing law in theRead More →

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Tennessee Divorce – Supreme Court Reverses Award of Long Term Alimony In a recent decision the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed the Tennessee Court of Appeals and held that in the divorce case of Johanna L. Gonsewski v. Craig W. Gonsewski that alimony in futuro was not appropriate.   Mrs.  Gonsewski filed a complaint for divorce in 2007 requesting alimony both temporary and permanent.  The evidence indicated that the parties were married for twenty-one (21) years, and throughout the marriage both the husband and wife worked.  In the year before the divorce the husband’s earnings were approximately $65,000.00 more than the wife’s earnings of $72,000 perRead More →