Kansas City Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Thursday, April 23, 2015. Our immediately preceding blog post noted a media report positing some fundamental shortcomings in the child support paradigm that has been long operative in the United States. As described in our April 21 entry, that opinion piece pointed most centrally to the adverse consequences stemming from the inability of many noncustodial fathers to remain consistently timely with the child support payments that are desperately needed by custodial mothers. Many American states routinely punish nonperforming fathers by garnishing their pay, revoking various licenses, taking passports

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Who suffers when a noncustodial parent — most often a father — is incarcerated by a state for failure to meet his child support obligations? Arguably, everyone involved by such a decision is adversely impacted. The father obviously forgoes any opportunity to earn money to provide for his children while locked behind bars. Moreover, the criminal record that attaches to nonpayment of his support duties stigmatizes him in the eyes of many potential employers who might view his job resume in the future. And

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The term “boilerplate” is often heard in law, referring to something that is standardized and of generic application, such as a prewritten contract form or document that commands similar utility for high numbers of people. Candidly, a one-size-fits-all document or legal approach does not often avail in the realm of family law, for one very simple reason. Families. Families are, of course, anything but boilerplate. Every family in Illinois, Missouri and across the country is distinctly unique, rendering it a virtual certainty that any

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Historically, and over many decades, child support outcomes have dictated that divorced mothers be awarded custody of the children in a marriage and that noncustodial fathers have visitation rights and take on the role of making regular child support payments. Although that is the long-tenured family law paradigm all across the country, including in Illinois and Missouri, its routine application by judges in divorce cases has become, well, far less routine in recent years. Empirical evidence amply supports that. Quite simply, many more couples