Tennessee Adopts Collaborative Family Law Rule 53
Collaborative family law continues to gain popularity as another method of alternative dispute resolution. With the Supreme Court of Tennessee’s recent adoption of Collaborative Family Law Rule 53, we now have the clarity, guidance, and acceptance that many lawyers and judges have been asking for. While Rule 53 went into effect on April 4, 2019, […]
Read More»NEW LAW in 2019 | Objections to RPDs Must Be More Specific
- At July 03, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Divorce Process, News
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New Discovery Rule Ends General Objections to Requests for Production of Documents There is a significant rule change for family law proceedings, too. Early in January, the Tennessee Supreme Court amended Rule 34 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure, effective July 1, 2019. Under revised Rule 34.02, all objections to the production of documents […]
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Tennessee case summary on seeking to modify terms of divorce settlement. Bruce Milton Miller v. Lucinda Miller Miller The husband and wife in this Sullivan County, Tennessee, case were divorced in 2017, when they both signed a marital dissolution agreement. The husband was awarded the marital residence, but was required to pay the wife $475,000 […]
Read More»Ex-Husband Found In Civil Contempt For Failing to Pay $88K in Alimony
- At June 10, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In After Divorce, Alimony, Divorce Process
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Tennessee case summary on alimony enforcement after divorce. Patricia Gay Patterson Lattimore v. James S. Lattimore, Jr. The husband and wife in this Williamson County, Tennessee, case were divorced in 1994, at which time the trial court approved their marital dissolution agreement. The agreement called for the husband to pay $3,500 per month in alimony […]
Read More»NY Husband Must Pay Wife’s Attorney Fees After Secretly Keeping Her iPad and Text Messages
- At June 05, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Attorney's Fees, Divorce Process
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Tennessee case summary on electronic evidence in divorce. Elizabeth S. Strauss v. Daniel A. Strauss The husband and wife in this New York County, New York, case were in the midst of a divorce when the husband somehow came into possession of the wife’s iPad, which contained the wife’s private text messages. He falsely told […]
Read More»Wife’s Appeal Tossed Out When She Fails To Submit Proper Records
- At May 13, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Divorce Process, Property Division
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Tennessee case summary on appeals and property division in divorce. Tiffany “Whitaker” Kramer v. Phillip John Kramer The husband and wife were married in 2013 and had no children. In 2016, the wife filed for divorce in Blount County, Tennessee. The husband filed a counter-claim also requesting a divorce, and the trial court entered a […]
Read More»Mom Gets Discretionary Costs of $45K After Winning Custody Battle
- At April 24, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Child Custody, Divorce Process, Family Law
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Tennessee case summary on awarding discretionary costs. Kim Renae Nelson v. Loring E. Justice The mother and father in this Roane County, Tennessee, case were the parents of a child who was born in 2005. They had been involved in litigation since before his birth regarding paternity, the primary residential parent, and child support. In […]
Read More»“Maybe You Should Have Hired a Lawyer to Represent You” Is Not Bias
- At April 15, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Divorce Process
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Tennessee case summary on judicial bias and recusal in divorce. Ronna Lyn Ueber v. Anthony James Ueber The husband and wife in this Williamson County, Tennessee, case were divorced in 2018, after a three day trial. After the order granting the divorce was entered, the attorneys for the wife moved to withdraw from the case […]
Read More»Trial Court Cannot Just Adopt Ex-wife’s Attorney’s Findings of Fact
- At April 08, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Divorce Process
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Tennessee case summary on findings of fact in post-divorce proceedings. Jeffrey Glenn Mitchell v. Carol Ann Thomas Mitchell The husband and wife in this Blount County, Tennessee, case had two children, ages 15 and 11, at the time of their 2011 divorce. In 2014, the husband came back to court to modify the child support […]
Read More»Mom Admitted to Sex After Separation But Still Adultery in Tennessee
- At March 13, 2019
- By Miles Mason
- In Child Custody, Divorce Process
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Tennessee case summary on grounds of adultery and vaccination over objection of mother in divorce. Brianna Danielle King v. Aaron Jefferson Daily The husband and wife in this Rutherford County, Tennessee, case were married in 2011 and had two children, a son born in 2011 and a daughter born in 2013. The husband worked for […]
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