In late October of 2015, Mrs. Holmes filed for divorce against Anthony Holmes. The couple has been living together for seventeen years and married for fourteen. Two years prior to the marriage of the couple, Mr. Holmes began a now successful computer business which generates about $2.2 million in annual income. Two weeks ago, a prior administrative assistant sued Mr. Holmes for child support, claiming he is the father of her nine month old son. Mr. Holmes has denied the claims and says that she has been married for five years. Mr. Holmes has two minor children of his own with Mrs. Holmes. The situation of the case is that Mrs. Holmes is asking the court for custody of the children, spousal and child support and ½ of all of the property they …show more content…
In determining the reasonable needs of the child or spouse seeking support and the ability of the obligor to provide support, the guideline shall place primary emphasis on the net incomes and earning capacities of the parties, with allowable deviations for unusual needs, extraordinary expenses and other factors, such as the parties ' assets, as warrant special attention. The guideline so developed shall be reviewed at least once every four years.
The spousal support for Mrs. Holmes will also be determined on the factors how much she could eventually earn with regards to her age, health, and mental and physical condition. As long as Mrs. Holmes is capable of working the spousal support will either be lower or eventually stop after an average of three years considering the length of their marriage. As long as Mrs. Holmes is not employed or incapable of working, spousal support will end in favor of Mr. Holmes. However, if she has been unemployed for the last seventeen-fourteen years the spousal support agreement will end up against his
Wrongful Convictions Culminating Activity - Steven Truscott An Overview of the Case On June 9th 1959 near Clinton, Ontario 14-year-old Steven Truscott gave his classmate 12-year-old Lynne Harper a ride on his bike from their school down to Highway 8 (Ontario Justice Education Network Timeline of Events for the Steven Truscott Case). This sole event would be the one to change his life forever. The next day Lynne’s body was discovered near Lawson’s bush (close to the area in which he dropped her off) where she had been strangled, sexually assaulted and subsequently killed. That day Constable Hobbs conducted a lengthy seven-hour interview on young Steven Truscott in which he asked him a number of gruelling questions concerning the death of 12-year-old Lynne Harper.
The question today is whether Alex McKinnon should sue the National Rugby League for the injuries he sustained in a game last year. Well today learned colleagues, I will argue that he should not sue the NRL on the basis of negligence. First and foremost, on behalf of the National Rugby League and myself, we would like to extend our condolences for such a horrendous situation and we wish him all the best.
Nature of Case: The plaintiff is Peter Stanley. He said that his rights to equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment have been violated. He believes that the Illinois law that makes children of unwed father’s wards of the state upon death of the mother violated his rights.
James Eagan Holmes was described as a quiet, standoffish, 24-year-old graduate student from San Diego who had earned a bachelor's degree in neuroscience in 2010 from the University of California, Riverside. Holmes then enrolled at the University of Colorado in June of 2011, taking graduate courses in neuroscience at the university's campus in Denver. He later dropped out of a doctoral program at the University's medical school, where he had been doing research.
Holmes and Holmes developed this typology based on various characteristics of the crime scenes and the victims themselves of 110 interviews of selected offenders and serial murders (Canter & Wentink, 2004). David Canter and Natalia Wentink conducted an empirical test of this typology and developed several criticisms to their work. Their empirical test concluded that the features described for each category tend to co-occur within each other. For example, the characteristics of a lust killer include a controlled crime scene, evidence of torture, the body being moved, a specific type of victim, no weapon left at the crime scene, and rape; all of these features are also included for the thrill killer. This makes it difficult to categorize these
As if molded directly from the depths of nightmares, both fascinating and terrifying. Serial killers hide behind bland and normal existences. They are often able to escape being caught for years, decades and sometimes an eternity. These are America’s Serial Killers (America’s Serial Killers). “Even when some of them do get caught, we may not recognize what they are because they don’t [sic] match the distorted image we have of serial killers” (Brown). What is that distorted image? That killers live among everyday life, they are the ones who creep into someone’s life unknowingly to torture and kill them. The serial killers that are in the movies, Norman Bates, Michael Myers, and the evil master mind of SAW, these characters are just that characters. They have been made up as exaggerated fictional characters from the Hollywood imagination.
The Andrea Yate’s case impacted America greatly. She was known as an average catholic mother who was born in Houston, Texas. She had an education, pursued a nursing degree. And was normally developed and respected by her family throughout her life (Murderpedia). After reading about this case study I found it to be very interesting but also very insane... Andrea Yates’ was a mom of five children and randomly decided one day to drown all of them because she believed that would save them from “burning in hell”. After the occurrence of this traumatic event, she was sent to psychiatric prison for life but was eventually released if received excellent mental health care. Many people were shocked that they released her from prison because this woman
These days, marriage contracts fortunately treat both men and women the same, and look at it as more of a partnership rather than a legal contract with economical advantages. (Bernstein, 2011) Today, women have more goals than getting married and having children, most want to go to college and having a successful career. It is normal for a woman to be completely successful all on her own without a husband. These days, a woman can be the bread winner of her family while her husband is a stay at home father. There are also several single working mothers and single working
A housewife discovered that her husband cheated on her accidentally and he had already owned another lover outside. At the beginning, she was heart-broken. However, when she thought about divorce, she felt helpless because of her children’s paternal love and financial support from her husband. If they divorced, she may lost child custody and properties, which means she will has no money and only can see her children
Through all the media coverage, Sam Reese Sheppard began to have nightmares that his dad was electrocuted, and that he should be to (Quade). He has guilt that made him have the decision to not have kids because it is hard for him to hold his own life together. There has been a huge change in opinion from people who assumed Dr. Sam Sheppard was guilty. Now people see that he was unfairly convicted. This led people to believe that the death penalty should not be used. Although the case will probably never be decided, with all the evidence that has been found, Dr. Sam Sheppard should be considered innocent.
Confined in application to by right (legitimately forced) isolation, the Brown principle was connected for the most part to Southern educational systems. After solid resistance, which prompted such occurrences as the 1957 Little Rock, Ark., school emergency, combination spread gradually over the South, under court orders and the risk of loss of government assets for rebelliousness. The Brown choice gave enormous driving force to the social equality development of the 1950s and 1960s, and rushed mix out in the open offices and facilities. Isolation kept up by subtler and obstinate strengths, nonetheless, has remained a vital component in American culture. Accepted school isolation, brought on by private lodging examples and different conditions
There was a time when women typically maintained the home and raised children while the husbands were the sole bread-winners for the family finances. However, times have changed and so have women’s rights and expectations for divorce, education, an...
Not only do divorcees spend substantial amounts of money from their initial transaction, they may also spend twice as much from trying to separate from their lawyer. Many lawyers around the country embezzle, cheat, steal, and bribe their way into winning any case. Because of this, many family attorneys end up being sued by their own clients causing a significant amount of pain, suffering and long lasti...
An examination of Sherlock Holmes' abilities and techniques. allied to his personal characteristics, enable him to solve crimes. There are many reasons to explain why Sherlock Holmes is one of the world's most famous fictional detectives. However, the main reason for This is that not only are the stories complex, but the actual character of Sherlock Holmes has extreme depth, with some subtle. elements of his character only becoming apparent when he is in certain situations.
There is a couple named Bruce and Janet Marshall; they have an eight-year-old son named Brandon Marshall. Lately the couple has been fighting over finances and small issues, the two cannot seem to stop arguing in front of Brandon. Every night the fights get worst. From the fighting and the screaming there is no end to it. Brandon feels that he is the blame for all there arguing because playing sports at his age in expensive. Months go by while Bruce has been sleeping on the couch and Janet upstairs with Brandon. Finally Bruce could not take it anymore, he told Janet that it was best for them to get a divorce and things went downhill from there. Two years later Janet and Bruce are still fighting in court over who gets what and fighting over whom gets full custody of Brandon. Through this process they never questioned how Brandon would deal with his family separating and if he understood what was going on. After their divorce was final Brandon was twelve-years-old and living with his father, he never saw his mother again.