Family law is a type of civil law that deals with different legal problems that a family may face. A family law attorney helps families with these problems. This includes the legal relationships between children, parents, wives, husbands, and domestic partners. About half of all marriages end in divorce, so you need a lawyer to help you make agreements about legal separation, dissolution of marriage (divorce), and fair division of marital property, assets, and debts.
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When a marriage is illegal because of bigamy or something else that was going on at the time of the marriage, it is said to be void. A decree of nullity says, in essence, that the couple was never married, but some states change the results of annulments. For example, the children of a marriage that has been thrown out are still considered real and can get child support. This may be different from state to state.
When children are involved, divorces and separations can become even more complicated, so you need a good family law attorney to help you figure things out. Child custody is the right to look after a child and make important decisions about the child. Unless the parents can't agree, a plan can be made for either sole custody or shared custody. In this case, the courts decide who gets custody based on what is in the child's "best interest."
Child support is a regular payment made to a parent after a divorce to help them take care of their children. This is usually taken care of in a divorce or separation agreement, and it may be a part of spousal support or alimony payments. Child support rules are made by each state and American Indian tribe, and your family lawyer can tell you about the rules in your area.
Adoptions are something else that an attorney for family law deals with. When an adoptive person or family takes on all of the parenting duties for a child who is not their biological child, all of the rights of the biological parents are permanently transferred to the adoptive parents. Child placement agencies are in charge of more than 60% of all adoptions in the US.
Agencies can help people adopt from other states or even from other countries. A lawyer in the area where the child lives can handle the local paperwork, but make sure to get a written agreement on the lawyer's fees as soon as possible. If you want to adopt a child from another country, your lawyer should know a lot about immigration law.