Ask Alan Podcast: Alan Crone Interviews Miles Mason, Sr.

Thank you, Alan for having me on your podcast! On June 26, 2020, Alan Crone featured me on his podcast, Ask Alan. In the podcast, we discussed my history, and I dispensed advice on co-parenting during the COVID-19 crisis. While covering my “origin story,” I explained the major influence that two people, my godfather, James […]

Dad Unsuccessfully Seeks Credit for Child Support for Other Expenses

Tennessee child support case summary on enforcement. Cynthia Anne Knop v. Aaron Charles Knop The parties to this Greene County, Tennessee, were married for 16 years and were the parents of two minor children. They were dentists who practiced together until the wife’s disability. After the wife filed for divorce, they were able to resolve […]

Unmarried Same-Sex Parent Had No Standing to Assert Visitation Rights

Tennessee child custody case summary on same-sex couple but not married. Sandra Ann Pippin v. Christina Michelle Pippin In 2011, a child was born to one of the parties in this Wilson County, Tennessee, case. The biological mother had been artificially inseminated after her partner, also a woman, had made the mutual decision to have […]

Disbarred Ex-Husband Ordered to Pay $240K in Attorney’s Fees

Tennessee case summary on attorney’s fee in divorce. JILL ST. JOHN-PARKER v. VIRGIL DUANE PARKER The husband and wife in this Bradley County, Tennessee, case were married for over twenty years before their divorce. The husband was an attorney, the wife was a CPA, and they accumulated a large estate during the marriage. The husband, […]

Marketability Discount Applicable to Interest in Family Business

South Carolina divorce case summary on business valuation and minority discounts. Clark v. Clark Family court could determine that marketability discount was applicable to wife’s 25% interest in closely held family business, as part of determining an equitable distribution in divorce case; both husband’s and wife’s experts initially applied a marketability discount, with wife’s expert […]