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

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, January 16, 2014. On our fathers’ rights blog, we have often written about cases where a father has to undergo tests and go to court in order to establish paternity of a child. The results can have wide-reaching impacts on child custody and family relationships. While it is not terribly uncommon for a man to establish that he is the father of the child some time after the child’s birth, it is almost unfathomable that a family could find out after two decades that their daughter had

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, January 3, 2014. We have spent a lot of time on our blog writing about fathers who have gone to extreme lengths to make sure they are involved in the lives of their children — often through legal means. One way that many of our readers might not have considered involves a section of the law that is usually levied against organized crime, rather than child custody issues. The attorney involved in the case admits that invoking RICO — the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act —

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, December 25, 2013. Many family law cases in Illinois don’t necessarily make the news. Families break up all the time these days, so getting a divorce is hardly a novelty. For movie stars, however, almost nothing is private. Celebrities who get married in the public eye often can’t expect privacy when they get divorced. Just like people with ordinary jobs, celebrities have to deal with child custody issues. Where will the kids live when the parents are no longer living together? Because of the public nature of

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, December 13, 2013. When child custody battles cross international borders, they become infinitely more complex. Just ask any parents who have experienced one. One couple, formerly of Illinois, has been engaged in a six-year international custody battle. The child has lived with his father in Ireland for about a year and a half. Meanwhile, in Illinois, courts have been trying to decide whether Ireland has jurisdiction over the case. International child custody cases are quite complicated, in large part, due to such jurisdictional questions. It is often