Kansas City Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in child custody on Saturday, March 9, 2019. As a parent contemplating a Missouri divorce, one of your biggest concerns likely is how your children will react to your divorce and how the day-to-day loss of both of their parents will affect them. If you have not yet considered joint custody, you may well wish to do so. Whether or not joint custody will work in your situation depends on how cooperatively you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse can work together in your children’s best interests. If you both possess the requisite maturity,

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in child custody on Sunday, January 27, 2019. There is an old saying that offers the hope of time healing all wounds. It was one that is certainly applicable to divorce. The hope is that the further you get from your separation, the more likely it becomes that any acrimony and animosity that exists between you and your ex-spouse will dissipate. The odds of that happening may be fairly high if no reasons exist for the two of you to continue interacting. However, if you have children together, you will need to

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in child support on Thursday, January 10, 2019. When defining “child support,” many in Jackson County may state that it is money paid to help cover a kid’s basic needs. Yet exactly what are those needs? Food, shelter and clothing are the basic ones that immediately come to mind, yet what about health care? It is easy to forget about the need for health care (or more specifically, health insurance) because people tend to only value it when it is needed. Given the high cost of care, however, it is easy to

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in child custody on Saturday, December 8, 2018. In this post, we will take a close look at some of the challenges that are unique to parents. Raising a child can be tough for many reasons, from financial demands to daily stressors that surface in parents’ lives. Sometimes, life as a parent can be particularly tough, such as instances where a couple cannot come to an agreement on a key decision in their child’s life. For example, a couple may disagree about sending their child to a particular college for various reasons.