by Morgan Smith | Apr 8, 2019 | Contested Divorce, Divorce Lawyer, Post-Divorce Modification
The Court of Appeals just issued another warning about why your divorce attorney keeps bugging you about appraising your real property. Guess what? If you estimate wrong, you don’t get to go back and redo everything with an appropriate appraisal because you have...
by Morgan Smith | Jun 22, 2018 | Contested Divorce, Divorce Lawyer, Post-Divorce Modification
The Tennessee Court of Appeals has reiterated that a disagreement over schools is not grounds for a modification of the primary residential parent designation. This was considered pretty settled law, but some court still rule this way and require parents to fund...
by Morgan Smith | Nov 3, 2016 | Contested Divorce, Post-Divorce Modification
In my practice as a divorce lawyer here in Middle Tennessee, I find a lot of clients don’t want to be bothered with listing out specific property, or taking the time (and paying the attorney fees) to go over it in detail with their attorneys. Sometimes, when...
by Morgan Smith | Sep 12, 2016 | Contested Divorce
Something that comes up quite a bit in my divorce intakes is whether or not property is separate property or marital property. Retirement accounts can be very tricky in this regard, because people generally don’t keep them completely separate, and frequently dip...
by Morgan Smith | Aug 4, 2015 | Contested Divorce, Divorce Lawyer, Family Law
It is simple for a lawyer to pick out what lawyer they would want to represent them in a divorce, because as attorneys we can see skills and representative needs in ways that a lay person who is not familiar with the law cannot. Sometimes as well, a client may come to...
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