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Ordinarily the answer to that question is yes. However, there are other considerations. Some court orders prevent the payor from having visitation rights with the child. Incidentally, "visitation rights" is not the current term of art in Ohio, because technically that...
Judges are required to abide by a number of procedural and other laws and rules. However, they're absolutely forbidden to represent parties in law suits, and they can't give legal advice to unrepresented parties, beyond telling them things like "You have the right to...
Ohio's probate courts serve very important functions, dealing with matters like decedents' estates, guardianships and adoptions. Normally, the question about "avoiding probate" comes up in the context of estate planning. But, probate is not a bad thing. In regard to...
Fortunately, the American governmental system has a very active judicial branch which exists to end disputes. We don't have a "lynch mob" society. If persons have disagreements, the courts exist for purposes of resolving them. It is not a bad thing to use the court...
Interestingly, I have been asked questions about this a lot. I am speaking for myself here, but I strongly suspect that the other lawyers in my firm would react similarly when asked this kind of thing. I think it is unquestionably true that a lawyer needs a backbone....
Yes, our office practices in the area of elder law. Our lawyers have a lot of experience drafting wills and estates, working with trusts, handling probate matters, doing powers of attorney, helping people with living wills, handling guardianships, etc. Generally,...
Pension rights are generally misunderstood, maybe more than just about any other kind of property rights. In Ohio, most retirement and pension rights which are accumulated during a marriage are generally considered to be marital assets and are divisible in a divorce...
Unfortunately, there is no uniformity on this. For example, currently executed deeds in Ohio have to be notarized but not witnessed, wills have to be witnessed but not notarized, living wills have to be either witnessed or notarized, contracts generally do not have to...
That is a loaded question! If the "sides" are married to each other, the matter is not a legal separation, divorce or dissolution issue, and they are doing a lease of their land to some third party, as long as their interests are aligned, it is perfectly appropriate...
That question can't be answered without a lot of specific things being considered. Such as: how many employees will the business have, how many owners will the business have, what kind of service or product will the business produce, what are the goals of the...