My boyfriend filed for divorce almost 3 years ago and still has not gotten a court date for his divorce. Is this normal? He has paid his lawyer in full and even paid the court fees over a year ago, yet he never hears a word from his lawyer. How do you get a lawyer to do the job he was paid to do, and is there any recourse if the lawyer doesn’t take care of his divorce in a reasonable amount of time?

My friend makes very little money and receives financial assistance each month from his parents to pay the bills. He wants to divorce his wife but feels that between alimony and child support he will be left with nothing each month (and he will need a place to live). If he is making about ,000 per year and married 25 years with 2 kids still at home, how much could he expect to pay in alimony and child support each month? Would they factor in the extra parental financial support in to the calculation?

What rights does a father have if the mother of a child(ren) did illegal drugs and the children were taken away. Then a court order gave the children to the father and the mother could have no contact unless the father was present, and she has no custody, but this was only for 2 months. There was no child support filed and the only thing that proves he cares for them is the cps paper saying he is the sole caregiver for the 2 children. What can he do to take full custody of the children?

Please do not judge me. I have had years of fighting a man for a divorce when he is way too hard to find and really don’t need anymore.

Here is the short version:

I married in November 2006 and husband decided to up and abandon me in March 2007 in Fort Bragg, NC after changing his mind about having children and wanted to party instead…Just never told me and up and poof disappeared and has remained unreachable for the past 3 years.

I have since then been fighting to get a divorce from him and when he wanted to come out of the woodworks he claimed he had divorced me…I and my lawyer both separately called his so called lawyer and the county clerk where he was to have filed and there has never been anything filed in his name or ssn…

So, I filed once again…Myself!!! We have contacted his lawyer as well as him and his family and all have remained unreachable once again. We have even sent out both the Marriage Dissolution Agreement and the Divorce papers both to his lawyer and to his last known address…The MDA still has not came back and supposedly his lawyer was to have him sign it a few weeks ago seeing as I never filed for alimony or anything; just a divorce. It still has never made it’s way back to my lawyer and my lawyer has decided to go and publish in the newspaper since this jerk off wants to remain unserved!!!

I finally decided to move on this year just like my husband has been with his gf for the past I would say 2 years now. I am now currently 3 months away from giving birth to my daughter. The father did the same thing my husband did so he will not be actively involved in my child’s life unless he pays support.

My Questions:
1. Seeing as how my husband has been unreachable and everything for a divorce for 3+ years now for a divorce…Am I to have to deal with him on the topic of child support too? or is there some way to deal with that matter without him being involved since his abandonment and my knowing of who the father is even though I will have a hard time contacting the father as well?

2. In TN, do you have to have the father there to sign the birth certificate when you name him?

3. In my situation, in TN, who do I name as the father on the birth certificate? The bio father whom I know is to be correct or my husband because of some stupid law? When my husband and I have not cohabitated together or even seen or talked to each other for over 3 years and he is unreachable as well as noncooperative in any situation here.

4. Who will the state go after for child support?

Criminal attorneys, tax attorneys, corporate attorneys, injury attorneys, and all the other types are cool in my book. These are all very interesting fields and if I was to be an attorney I would pick one of these.

But how can someone who graduated from law school choose to work as a divorce attorney? It must be so sad dealing with all those cases. True, as a criminal attorney you may have to defend someone who you know deserves to go to jail or as an injury attorney you may have to deal with crybabies who don’t really deserve the millions of dollars they are getting.

But to work as a divorce attorney just seems so wrong. I mean, how could someone be the one that’s helping to break apart a family? It just seems so sad and wrong to me.

I’d love some facts on this if you could find them, I couldn’t!

My daughter just began school and our custody order was only good until that time. What is the standard visitation he should get, she is 5. She has to fly back and forth to see him.

I’ve been married for over 11 years, we have three children together. He makes more money than do. What is the cheapest way out of this? Please help

Will the IRS get his refund to go towards what he owes them or will I get it to go towards what he owes in child support?