A family lawyer deals with matters of marriage, divorce, children, child custody and children’s rights. if you are in need of assistance with a family-related legal issue, whether you are a parent, spouse, child, unmarried couple, or same-sex partner, and you have a legal issue, a family lawyer may be the one to help you.Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
A family lawyer deals with issues such as:
- Legal consequences of re-marriage
- Domestic violence and marital rape cases
- Domestic partnerships
- Divorce
- Division of marital property in divorce
- Name change after divorce
- Child custody agreements
- Visitation rights after divorce or end of a relationship
- Collection of past due child support
- Adoption
- Guardian ships
- Surrogacy and artificial conception
- Establishing paternity
- Child abuse and child neglect cases
- Child abandonment issues
- Child abduction
- Abuse of visitation rights
- Crimes against children
- Dealing with Child Protective Services
- Emancipation of minors
- Juvenile law
- Eder law