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Study: Children of divorce responsible for more of college costs

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Monday, December 27, 2010. A new study found that children of divorced parents are responsible for more of college’s financial burdens than those students’ whose parents are still together. According to the study, married parents contribute about 8 percent of their income to college costs, while those who have gone through a divorce only contribute 6 percent of an income. In addition, those who are married cover 77 percent of a child’s financial needs, while those who are no longer together pay only 42 percent of those financial needs. In addition, the study also looked at parents

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Forty-percent of babies born in U.S. are born out of wedlock

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Monday, December 27, 2010. According to recent statistics, births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent.  This is a trend that began years before.  More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older. According to Duke University’s Philip Morgan, a legal researcher, for a variety of reasons, it’s become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband. With out-of-wedlock birth rates this high, many unmarried fathers falsely assume that they can avoid the court system when they were not married to the mother.  However, this is predominately untrue.  Just

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Gibson receives more child visitation hours

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Visitation on Wednesday, December 22, 2010. With the latest round of a highly publicized child custody battle, Braveheart actor Mel Gibson was granted additional visitation hours with his daughter. According to sources, the 54-year-old actor will get extra visitation time to spend with his toddle-aged daughter Lucia. This small victory for Gibson is a big turn in the opposite direction of what his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva was hoping for, which was too actually take away more time that the father and daughter could see each other. Since the couple split in May, both the tabloids and courtroom have

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Man jailed for not being able to afford child support payments

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Support on Monday, December 20, 2010. Right now a judge’s decision in Georgia is being questioned due to a man being held in jail for not paying child support, even though he literally had only 39 cents in his account at the time of his arrest. The 39-year-old father and veteran, was jailed for not being able to pay child support for his 16-year-old daughter. According to sources, after losing his job the man fell behind by only making partial payments, and eventually also lost his home to foreclosure. Due to his financial situation, it is

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Just got divorced? You might end up even healthier

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Wednesday, December 15, 2010. While divorce can be troubling and trying on any man, a recent study has come out saying that in the end men might actually get healthier after getting out of the marriage. According to researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden those who have gone through a divorce have a significantly higher increase in exercise. The study claims that since these divorced men are now single there is more of a societal pressure to keep themselves fit and attractive to increase the odds of finding someone new. The

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A long wait, but father finally wins custody of his kids

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Fathers’ Rights on Monday, December 13, 2010. In August of 2008 an Illinois mother lost custody of her two children, and after more than two years of the young kids being fostered by an aunt, the state has now finally awarded custody to the father. A recent article looked at the court’s decision, and the complicated child custody case the father had gone through in order to just have custody of his two biological kids again. According to sources, when the children were first taken away from the mother, the father was actually in jail on a

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