Family Law

Need a Family Lawyer?

A family lawyer at the Neumann Law Group can help you navigate divorce, child custody, alimony, and child support concerns. If you’re going through a divorce, the family lawyers at the Neumann Law Group are here to help you every step of the way. Whether you need a divorce lawyer to help you file for divorce and navigate the division of your assets or property, or you need a child custody lawyer to help you create a parenting plan because you are getting divorced and have minor children, the Neumann Law Group is here to help.

Divorce is a personal decision, but it is also a legal decision that involves your financial life. The Neumann Law Group helps couples navigate the financial questions that can arise during divorce pertaining to child support and alimony. If you have questions about how you’ll support your children or questions about how you’ll support yourself after your divorce, the family lawyers at the Neumann Law Group are here to help.

How Can a Divorce Lawyer Can Help Me File for Divorce?

Divorce can be one of the most difficult things we experience. If you’re thinking about filing for divorce, the Neumann Law Group can help you prepare and submit paperwork, and help you navigate the next steps. If you are the spouse filing divorce paperwork, you’ll need to formally serve your spouse the divorce papers and prepare for the next steps. The Neumann Law Group is a divorce law firm that can help you every step of the way. And if you received divorce papers from your former spouse, the divorce lawyers at the Neumann Law Group can help you submit your answer.

Our divorce attorneys can help you distinguish between marital and separate property, and help you divide martial property. One of the major challenges couples face during the divorce process (the challenge that often leads to disputes and sends couples to court) involves the division of assets and debts. A divorce lawyer at the Neumann Law Group can help you navigate these challenges.

How Can a Child Custody Lawyer Help Me?

If you are getting divorced and have minor children, you and your former partner will need to submit a parenting plan to the court. A child custody lawyer can help you and your former spouse create a parenting plan that works for your family. We can help you and your spouse address the difficult questions that can arise, including deciding where your children will live, determining how parenting time will be split, deciding how holidays will be spent, and coming to an agreement about how major decisions for the children will be made. The courts tend to encourage co-parents to work out their parenting plan without taking it to court because taking a parenting plan to court always carries the risk that the judge will either order mediation anyway or make a decision that neither partner wants. While there are certainly situations where a couple might need to fight over custody in court (such as in cases where domestic violence has been an issue, for example), in most situations couples are encouraged to make co-parenting decisions outside of court. This often leads to couples reaching agreements that they honor and can lead to a better co-parenting relationship.

If you need help creating a parenting plan that works, the child custody lawyers at the Neumann Law Group are here to help. We can help you and your co-parent create a parenting plan that is in the best interests of your children, and we can help you navigate the big questions that arise when couples make decisions about child custody.

How is Child Support Determined?

Child support isn’t something that is negotiated in a divorce. Rather, it is something that is determined based on state tables that are based on each spouse’s income. Disputes can arise if one or both spouses don’t report their accurate earnings, but in most cases, child support determinations can be made straightforwardly based on both parents’ income taxes and pay stubs. Sometimes parents decide to set aside extra money in support to cover the children’s additional medical expenses, college or private educational expenses, and other costs. Ultimately, this would be up to each couple to decide during the divorce.

The Neumann Law Group is a child support lawyer that can help you determine how much you’ll need to pay if you’ll be required to pay child support. Our child support lawyers can also help you understand how much child support you would be entitled to receive and help you take legal steps required if your former partner refuses to pay. The state has many legal remedies available to help a person collect child support from a partner who won’t pay.

How Can an Alimony Lawyer Help Me?

An alimony lawyer can help you seek alimony or help you fight alimony claims. Alimony isn’t always granted in a divorce, and it tends to be granted based on specific factors. Judges will typically look at how long a couple has been married, make a close evaluation of each partner’s contribution to the marriage, earning capacity, financial situation after divorce, age and health, and other factors. If you have been married to your spouse for many years, and one partner’s income was much higher than the other, then the court might award alimony or look to an equitable distribution of assets to ensure that the lower-earning spouse doesn’t end up destitute. If one partner supported the other while he or she built her career or business, then alimony might be awarded to make sure this partner is taken care of or has the chance to gain training or education to get back on their feet.

Different types of alimony can be awarded after a divorce. Permanent alimony is rare, but if a couple is older, or if one partner is ill, then permanent alimony might be awarded. More common is rehabilitative alimony, or alimony awarded to a former partner for a specific period to help them get on their own feet.

If you have questions about divorce and alimony, reach out to the Neumann Law Group today. Our alimony attorneys are here to help you navigate the divorce process and can help you seek alimony—or fight an alimony claim.

Reach Out to Our Divorce Lawyers

The outcome of your divorce can affect your family, your children, and your finances for years to come. A divorce lawyer can help you make decisions that work for you and can help you protect your rights as you navigate your divorce. Reach out to the Neumann Law Group today to take the next steps. Give us a call at 800-525-6386. `