Where to live during a divorce
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
When getting divorced, the last thing many of our clients want to do is go home at the end of every day to face their spouse. Divorce is an emotional experience and opens the door wide for conflict between soon-to-be exes. One of the first things many Held Law Firm clients do after deciding to […]
Read More »Therapy: Who needs it?
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
All of us could probably use therapy at some point. As a family law firm, we suggest it to many clients as a way to cope with divorce-related life changes like adjusting to living alone, sharing custody of their children with their ex or having to find a new job. For some, there is stigma […]
Read More »First Friday in juvenile court
Thursday, April 4th, 2019
When I started practicing family and juvenile law over twenty years ago, drugs were a factor in about half of the cases that I took that involved an abused or neglected child. Now, the opioid crisis is all over the news. Right behind it is the methamphetamine crisis. The cocaine crisis. But as the years have gone […]
Read More »What resources are available if I’m not receiving my child support?
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
Child support can be a controversial topic, because many people who are ordered by the Court to pay it do not feel they should have to or that they can afford to. There are many different routes you can take if your children’s other parent does not pay child support, but unfortunately, most of these […]
Read More »The Literacy Project: Next Steps
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Held Law Firm staff has been hard at work on The Literacy Project since January. Recent law graduate and Held Law Firm associate Jennifer Henszey first conceived of the idea for this project after she visited the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center during her third year of law school. While there, she was told […]
Read More »What the drug crisis means for grandparents
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Due to the large number of parents who struggle with drug addiction, particularly in Tennessee, many children are placed in households headed by relatives other than their parents. Nearly 8 million children across the country lived in these non-nuclear households in 2017, and many of those households were headed by grandparents. Although kids would ideally […]
Read More »Domestic Violence Series: Domestic Assault Charges vs. Orders of Protection
Friday, March 29th, 2019
If you have been attacked, threatened, or otherwise put into fear by your partner or a member of your household, you may not know where to turn. Thankfully, in Tennessee, you have multiple options to deal with this situation should you ever face it. However, you should be aware of the risks and benefits of […]
Read More »Domestic Violence Series: What if my child witnesses abuse?
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Most of us have a general idea of the effects of abuse on a child or teen, but what if a child witnesses abuse without being subjected to it directly? If a young person seems unusually withdrawn, displays unexplained changes in behavior like becoming suddenly aggressive or angry, or starts performing poorly in school, there […]
Read More »Domestic Violence Series: what to expect when survivors report
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
No one wants to think of themselves as a victim of domestic violence, and many of us never saw it coming, but it is a reality of the world we live in. Over 77 thousand reports of domestic violence were made in Tennessee in 2017, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Women made up about […]
Read More »Domestic Violence Series: What is Battered Woman Syndrome, and how can you help?
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Battered Woman Syndrome is recognized in the psychological community as a subcategory of post-traumatic stress disorder. Women experiencing this syndrome often show shame, guilt or a false sense of responsibility for the abuse they have endured, in addition to typical PTSD symptoms; so, it is typically treated as a more complex form of PTSD. Women […]
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