Stoneberg, Giles & Stroup

Use the links in the blue desk above for data on the main household legislation topics including relevant laws and the most incessantly used court types. She has acted as Lead Counsel in lots of essential family regulation circumstances, including most recently (and successfully) the Courtroom of Appeal’s decisions in Dovigi v. Razi, Squires v. Crouch and Duffus v. Frempong-Manso, and necessary rulings in Tierney-Hynes v. Hynes, Sarafinchin v. Sarafinchin, and Sirdevan v. Sirdevan.

The Family Law staff at WJM is concentrated on helping our shoppers to stabilise their lives and to put them again on their toes as quickly as potential after the troublesome time of a relationship breakdown and the often advanced issues that comply with.

Beneath Maine law, “marital property” means all property acquired by both partner after the wedding besides 1) property acquired by present, bequest, devise or descent; 2) property acquired in trade for property acquired by gift, bequest, devise or descent; three) property acquired by a spouse after a decree of legal separation; 4)property excluded by legitimate agreement of the parties; or 5) the increase in worth of property acquired prior to the marriage.

The Ombudsman for Children Workplace and the Courts Service have developed two brief movies for separating mother and father and their children about key aspects of family legislation proceedings within the District Court, and attainable options to court, in particular family mediation.