Irwin Kuhn brings over 20 years of wide-ranging legal and mediation experience to Dobbins and Venick law firm in Nashville. Irwin handles family law cases including divorce law and post-divorce matters. He also assists clients with health care and end of life planning, including preparation of health care directives and living wills for...
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Dot Dobbins is a partner in the firm of Dobbins & Venick, established in October 1993. Prior to that she was in private practice with the firm of Woods and Venick from October 1990 until September 1993. She has a family law practice with an emphasis on domestic relations cases, as well as legislative advocacy. From 1987 to1990 she was...
Child Support/Parenting Plans
Child support in Tennessee is an important part of any court order or agreement dissolving a marriage in which there are children under 18. The child support guidelines require that the income of both parents be taken into consideration when determining the level of child support. Another consideration is the amount of time each parent spends with the children. There many of other factors that need to be taken into consideration. Consultation with knowledgeable counsel is important. It is also important that changes in child support (custody or financial) be properly documented and noted with the court.
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A comparision of outcomes of mediations and going to court was the subject of a 12 year study by Dr. Robert Emery, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Children, Families, and the Law. Here is a link to a summary of his findings: http://emeryondivorce.com/...
COLLABORATIVE FAMILY LAW COMES TO NASHVILLE
(Originally published by The Nashville Bar Journal, December 2011-January 2012)
BY: IRWIN J. KUHN
The stage for a workable post marriage relationship between two people whose lives will always connected through children or family or friends is not set well by a...
Many Tennessee courts and attorneys by reflex insert parenting plan provisions prohibiting residential parents from allowing overnight visitation by “paramours” or “members of the opposite sex to whom they are not married”.
The Court of Appeals for the western section of...
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