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

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, July 17, 2015. If you’re under the so-called “age of majority” and already perusing this blog from time to time, you certainly qualify as a comparatively unusual — even distinctly singular — young person. And you could be demonstrating some of the traits that an Illinois court centrally looks for when it vets petitions for the emancipation of minors — a sense of awareness, independence, maturity and so forth. That is not to say, of course, that most young people still living with their parents are interested

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, July 16, 2015. A New York Times article today spotlights one group that it notes is highly interested in and also closely affected by the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage across the country: the transgender community. Our Illinois family law website of course notes and discusses that seminal judicial ruling, pointing out its extension of rights to gay and lesbian couples seeking to marry. And also to divorce. We note that same-sex couples across the United States are now “entitled to the same

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, July 9, 2015. The writer of a recent and instructive media piece on divorce and children makes reference to subject matter that “is among the thorniest issues family law courts face.” At first blush, many readers of our blog in Illinois and elsewhere might have widely varied ideas on what that focal concern of courts might be. Domestic abuse might readily come to mind for some people, with the sad fact being that violence in the home is indeed a sobering concern for some families. Drug and

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Monday, May 11, 2015. An online overview of an important yet seldom addressed family law topic refers to an “ideal world” in which post-divorce friction between ex-spouses is essentially contained, with resulting salutary effects visited on the children created through their marriage. Although that world does in fact exist for some families, of course, it is far from being the reality for others. It is simply the case in some instances that much of the discord that existed during marriage endures following marital dissolution, with children suffering adverse