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April 5, 2011

Dear Honorable (Family Court) Judges

...ssessment of fines, and judicious use of incarceration for chronic acts of contempt; f. Robust awards of attorney fees in appropriate cases; g. Strong focus on the eight exceptions to the Caretaking Functions Statute; h. Frequent use of urine tests, with stronger responses to meth and other hard drugs than to positive tests for marijuana; this was tempered by what I considered a wise observation that smoking pot is not only illegal, but it require...

September 25, 2018

A CONUNDRUM FOR FAMILY COURTS: WHAT TOOL FOR WHAT PROBLEMS? #1

...efore her a related family law case, divorce, allocation, modification, or contempt. Here I make the case that she can enter the order even where the litigants are not married, never have been, and have no children together. On Dec. 13, 2014, I posted, “The Supreme Court Rules People May Not Agree to Leave Each Other Alone”. https://hunterlawfirm.net/wv-supreme-court-rules-people-may-not-agree-to-leave-each-other-alone/ In it, I discussed a bizarr...

April 22, 2020

Up in the Air? We Are Here For You!

...injury claims, your “legal check-up”, adoption, conservator-guardianship, contempt matter, divorce, will or deed preparation, civil dispute, right of way or boundary line dispute; pretty much anything and everything we do If “Pap” is in the hospital and needs to make that critical change to his will, we can work that out in a way that disgruntled parties can’t successfully challenge it. In a time like this, Mr. Hunter’s 40+ years of finding solut...

December 1, 2017

Family Court Mediation Streamlined – Some Ideas

...in favor of a revision. Our system sets up Litigants in divorce, custody, contempt, and modification cases as “adversaries”. These cases are often highly charged with emotion, are emotionally and financially draining, and they can drag on for over a year! At the end, the parties often truly detest one another, and their children have suffered, only to have a court issue a ruling that isn’t tailored to the parties’ needs and may be something both...

July 23, 2017

So You Have Your (Child Custody) Agreement: Now What?

...o schedule and notice mediation. My best estimate is that out of 50 recent contempt cases, I did not find five people who activated the mediation provision before they came back to me. What are people thinking?! The parenting plan is written to be followed, but to be followed by both sides! You may decide to attend mediation without a lawyer, but the best $500 you can ever spend is a $500 “robust consultation” with a good lawyer (me) reviewing you...

January 17, 2020

Enforcing a Child Custody Agreement, With and Without the Court

...Time and again I meet people who have been dealing with violations of their court-ordered parent plan who have no clue how to enforce it. They missed opportunity after opportunity to get things back on track, or, failing that, to set up the other side for a contempt or modification action. So, here is a couple thousand dollars worth of “free advice”.. https://hunterlawfirm.net/so-you-have-your-child-custody-agreement-now-what/...

October 11, 2018

The War Between Women and Men

...ly spent years looking at the divorce process, and related matters such as contempt, modification, enforcement, and custody, solely from the man’s perspective. 3. Sherry, in advocating to her clients that they inflict (metaphorically I hope) painful blows on the father of their child and or the man they planned to “love and honor” for a lifetime, stirs up rather than damps down hostility. 4. I have been solemnly told by clients of each gender that...

April 29, 2020

A ROADMAP TO BURTON HUNTER’S IDEAS AND “WISDOM”

...Blog Search for “Adoption”: https://tinyurl.com/ya43lex9 Blog Search for “Contempt of Court”: https://tinyurl.com/yasngf3u Blog Search for “The Family Law Restraining Order Bill”: https://hunterlawfirm.net/the-wv-senate-bill-430-now-a-law-that-no-one-heard-of/ Blog Search for “Domestic Violence”: https://tinyurl.com/y7pp6leu Blog Search for “Relocation of a Parent”: https://tinyurl.com/y7z9fqd5 Blog Search for “Access to Child’s Records” : https:...

December 28, 2021

Civil Litigation 101

...allocation of parental rights” (aka “paternity suit”); or, an adoption, or contempt, or modification of a prior court order such as child custody, or child support, or alimony. When there is an alleged personal injury or civil wrong, it can be a suit over a car wreck where the insurance company won’t pay a fair settlement, or a dispute over the validity of grandpa’s will, or a boundary-line or right-of-way dispute between neighbors. A civil claim...

August 10, 2022

What Don’t I Know? How Can I Find it?

...ation Divorce Right of way Promissory estoppel Boundary Line Child Custody Contempt Modification Mediation Alternate Dispute Resolution Alimony Equitable Distribution Legal Separation Estates Elder Abuse WV “Conservator” or “Guardianship” Legal disability Adoption child neglect Assault Battery Appeals Magistrate Family Court Abandonment Nuisance So, just dive in and enjoy what you find. And write with questions or comments: hunterjb@hunterlawfirm....