Unquestionably, the most difficult of all tasks to focus upon and resolve for many parties in Arkansas and nationally during the divorce process is the equitable division of marital property. And it is not hard to see why that is the case. For starters, and in select...
It happens, with eye-opening and sadly recurring stories recurrently surfacing to underscore a hideous potential that can easily turn real when wrongful conduct on the part of criminal law officials is not uncovered. Here's a case from Arkansas, with recently...
Maybe you've got what you regard as relatively modest holdings, which you have worked long and hard for. You want to ensure that your assets are smartly handled in your estate plan, and in a manner that best promotes the interests and well-being of future generations....
There is the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. How much weight courts should give those differing perspectives is a topic of much legal debate. Prevailing views on the subject can change over time and so they have recently regarding the legal means for...
Society puts a lot of stock in family. It's not surprising. Most experts will tell you that without parents and children, the values that serve as the foundation of social structures might fade away. However, what constituted norms a few decades ago are not the same...
Wrong. Inefficient. Unfair. Those and a host of similar terms are used by a tandem team of writers in a recent national news commentary spotlighting the recent resurgence of so-called mandatory minimums in federal sentencing. The contributors are an ex-federal judge...
Although it is certainly true that common concerns often feature in divorce, regardless of where a decoupling resides on a simple-to-complex register, it is unquestionable that so-called "high net worth" dissolutions yield a host of differentiated and singular...
Although a progressive sense of certainty is attaching to many legal considerations relevant to same-sex couples in Arkansas and across the country, no reasonable person would ever contend that progress -- the march toward comprehensive recognition of same-sex rights...
We spotlighted a military divorce case in our blog a few months back, informing our readers across Arkansas with interest in the matter that we would timely update the story at a relevant juncture as it worked its way through the courts. Given that nothing is more...
When addressing the subject of severe financial challenges and related dislocation suffered by legions of individuals and families across the country, many media articles and reports portray what might reasonably seem to come across as a three-headed monster. Namely,...