Post-Judgement Modifications and Enforcements
After the entry of a Final Judgment, it sometimes becomes necessary to modify or the terms and conditions of the final judgment. Basically, a client’s circumstances in life often change after a divorce or other important family law case. Oftentimes, changing circumstances involving the parties minor children will require a change to your Final Judgment. We regularly handle filing post-divorce modification actions. Our firm routinely provide legal representation with post-judgment issues such as child support, time-sharing (child visitation), parental responsibility (child custody), alimony, relocation of parents, and alimony. Our firm also regularly files actions to enforce previous agreements and orders of the court regarding alimony, distribution of property or debts, child support, time-sharing (child visitation), and parental responsibility (child custody). This also includes Motions for Contempt when necessary and warranted for willful and deliberate violations of prior court orders, judgments or marital settlement agreements. When disputes arise post-divorce it is best to obtain legal representation before the problem gets too far out of hand. There is not necessarily a legal advantage to being the first ex-spouse to file for a post-divorce modification or enforcement action. However, the first party to file such a case usually gains a tactical advantage because he or she will have already hired an attorney, prepared for their case, and will have started getting the legal process rolling forward to deal with the current dispute. The non-filing ex-spouse is then normally left in a position of scrambling to hire an attorney, drafting and filing the required responsive legal paperwork, and then later trying to play “catch up” in order to attempt to legally bring any potential legal claims they may have to the Court’s attention.