What is “domestic violence”? It is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. Violence against women is often accompanied by emotionally abusive and controlling behavior, and this is part of a systematic pattern of dominance and control. Domestic violence results in physical injury, psychological trauma and sometimes death. (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (

Estate planning is probably on most of your minds right now. As we face these unprecedented times with daily announcements of the current death toll from this Coronavirus, it begs the question are my affairs in order? The biggest misconception among many is that because you don’t have a huge amount of assets, you think you do not need an estate plan. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Everyone has an estate. The purpose of an estate plan is to give you the control o

I have been getting a lot of questions about the stimulus check and how it is being handled for families with a child support arrearage. You have seen on the news reports that a person will not get their stimulus check if they have a past due balance for child support. That is not exactly true. A person will in fact get their stimulus check, it is simply that it may not be delivered directly to them. I spoke with an attorney with the child support division and learned tha