The idea of divorce tends to intimidate stay-at-home or non-bread-winning spouses. In many families, one spouse might leave their career to raise the children, maintain the family home and/or care for aging parents. The unpaid services they provide for the family are...
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N. Scott Smith selected to 2023 Indiana Super Lawyers List….
Scott Smith has been selected to the 2023 Indiana Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service...
Courtrooms closed, Judges still active
As an attorney with over 15 years of litigation experience, meaning hearings, trials and court-related interaction, I can honestly confirm that the judges we have elected are working amazingly hard, more than ever (and they already work long hours and do very much...
Indiana Supreme Court Orders Custody & Parenting Time to remain unchanged during school closures
On March 31, 2020, the Indiana Supreme Court addressed a serious issue that has been lingering unanswered for several weeks amongst divorce and family law counsel and courts: What if any impact do the school closures have on custody and more pointedly, parenting time...
COVID-19 AND PARENTING TIME
Although there is understandable concern and fear surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, parenting time arrangements, as ordered by Courts, are to followed. In other words, a parent cannot decide to withhold a child from enjoying parenting time with the other...