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

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

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