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

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, September 2, 2015. In our last post, we began a discussion about divorce and its potential impacts on funding college for your kids. If you have minor children and are seeking custody, you may have more immediate concerns than paying for college – especially if your children are still very young. Nonetheless, decisions made now could have an impact on the cost of your child’s college education and how it is paid for. In today’s post, we’ll discuss how some former couples manage their tax-advantaged 529 savings

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Monday, August 31, 2015. Now more than ever, going to college is a financial investment that spans a lifetime. Students who take out loans to finance a college education may be paying those loans back for decades afterward. And for students whose parents can afford to foot the bill for a college education, saving may have started at birth. Unfortunately, parental divorce can significantly complicate plans to save for college. If you are experiencing divorce and have minor children at home, you may be wondering how the divorce

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Sunday, August 16, 2015. You can ask most anyone about their thoughts on divorce and they’ll probably feel confident speaking in generalizations. You may hear that “divorce is failure,” or that “divorce is selfish.” Some might say that “divorce harms children” or that someone getting a divorce hasn’t “found their one true love.” Are any of these generalizations accurate? Are they even helpful? Certainly, there have been plenty of sociological studies about divorce and its effects on the whole family, but controlling the variables in such studies can

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, July 30, 2015. Earlier this week, we began a discussion about a child custody case that has received national media attention. It concerns a divorced couple in Michigan (originally from Israel) and a child custody battle that first began in 2009. What make this case so complicated and so sad are allegations and observations that the children have been victims of parental alienation disorder. While children (and especially teenagers) can harbor resentment and anger against one or both parents in divorce, this level of anger seems difficult to

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Tuesday, July 28, 2015. We have previously written about the problem of parental alienation in divorce and child custody cases. Extreme cases of parental alienation involve one parent’s deliberate attempts to convince children to hate and reject the other parent. This is often done through telling lies about the other parent, verbally disparaging them and cutting off the other parent’s access to and contact with the children. The end product in such cases is nothing short of brainwashing. Allegations of parental alienation can be difficult to sort out,

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, July 23, 2015. For a lot of parents here in Illinois, you would probably be devastated if someone accused you of treating your children badly. You’d probably become even more overwhelmed if an accusation led to the removal of your children from your custody. If you’re like most people, you’d probably feel frustrated and confused, looking for answers you might not be able to provide on your own because of your minimal legal background. If a situation such as this sounds terrifying, you wouldn’t be alone in