October 2016

Collaborative Law for Prenuis

Getting Married Again? You May Need a Prenup to Protect your Kids.

A prenuptial agreement is a contract entered into by a couple before marriage. The prenup spells out the property rights of one or both of the parties involved. One of the most common situations calling for a prenup in Washington is the second marriage involving children. Why?

Pre-marital agre…

Tips for Successful Co-parenting

Is President Obama limiting child support obligations for prisoners?

President Obama has decided to move forward a proposition to limit child support obligations for prisoners during the time they are incarcerated.  Those who support this action argue that current child support obligations strap prisoners with insurmountable debt that inhibits their ability to ree…

What About the Beloved Family Pet?

What About the Beloved Family Pet?

Divorce is never easy but it is especially complicated when you share responsibility for living creatures with your spouse. There are legal guidelines in place to navigate child custody but what about pet custody? Ever increasingly couples share pets instead of children. This presents a difficult…

Presidential Debacle – by Ian Buie

This week’s second presidential debate was as nonsensical and insufficient of a political showing as the nation expected; it is a worrisome predicament that we have all somehow let become our reality. The candidates’ responses to the audiences’ questions were, for the most part, so unresponsive a…

Step Families – Our Family Story as seen through Ian’s Eyes

Step Families – Our Family Story as seen through Ian’s Eyes

The number of siblings I claim to have varies on any given day depending on what best fits my story. Sometimes it’s three and sometimes it’s five but I consider both to essentially be true. Until moving to Seattle at the beginning of high school, three was the only option. When my mom remarried I…

Should there be a National Divorce Law?

What Happens When We Get the Leader We Deserve? – Guest Political Blogger

Donald Trump is at it again. Shocking people by doing absolutely nothing new or out of character. The media and prominent Republicans are acting like the newly released videos of Donald Trump’s lewd comments are indicative of a change or an increasingly controversial Donald. The fact is, this con…

Who Gets the Embryos?

Locker Room Talk – Really?????

Donald Trump drew perhaps the strongest public ire of his campaign when a 2005 tape of particularly troubling, lewd and misogynistic comments bragging about sexual assault surfaced. His reaction to the public release of these comments has been a lukewarm apology for “locker room talk.” Unsurprisi…

Top Divorce Mistakes

7 Lessons from Divorce

Yesterday April Meadow Stallings opened up about her divorce to the Guardian in this beautiful piece. Emotionally and physically traumatized by her divorce she puts together a list of the “Seven things I wish I’d known before my divorce.” They are wonderful lessons for anyone contemplating divorc…

How One Family Fought CPS

Homelessness Solution?

In June we wrote about some innovative approaches Seattle was considering that were already utilized by other major cities to address the homelessness crisis. The Seattle area saw a 19 percent increase from 2015 to 2016 in people living without shelter. Many are morally dismayed at the homelessne…

Vice President Debate by Guest Blogger

Vice President Debate by Guest Blogger

The vice presidential debate between Tim Kaine and Mike Pence was livelier than anyone could have predicted. These two are normally relatively low profile individuals but this debate was quite an exception. The major themes of the evening included foreign policy, race relations in the United Stat…