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Dallas Divorce Newsletter January 2009

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

 The January newsletter from Dallas Texas divorce lawyer Michelle May O’Neil of The May Firm.

 

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January 7, 2009
Welcome to The May Firm Newsletter!

As a service to our clients, we at The May Firm and Divorce Magazine are pleased to provide you with this monthly e-newsletter and hope that the information and articles contained within are helpful, supportive, and entertaining. A. Michelle May O’Neil is nationally recognized as a leader in family law. Her firm emphasizes high-quality representation in family-law matters, with a particular emphasis on child-custody disputes, complex marital-property litigation, and appeals of family-law matters. For more information, please click here: www.DivorceMagazine.com/TX/pro/may.shtml or view our website at: www.themayfirm.com.

 

1. Parenting & Step-Families: Ten tips for divorcing parents
2. Health/Well Being: Atittude – your emotional divorce and recovery
3. Legal: The phases of a divorce trial
4. Divorce Lawyers: The full-service lawyer
5. Divorce Mediation: The benefits of divorce mediation

1. Parenting & Step-Families
Ten tips for divorcing parents
Divorce is never easy on kids, but there are many ways caring parents can help lessen the impact of their break-up on their children.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Parenting_and_Step-Families/ten_tips.html

2. Health/Well Being
Atittude – your emotional divorce and recovery
Learn how your attitude affects your life.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Health_Well_Being/attitude.html

3. Legal
The phases of a divorce trial
Prepare yourself for the 8 phases of a divorce trial
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Divorce_Law/orderly-justice-divorce-trial-phases.html

4. Divorce Lawyers
The full-service lawyer
What you get in the gold-plated divorce
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Divorce_Lawyers/full-service-lawyer.html

5. Divorce Mediation
The benefits of divorce mediation
How the mediation process can diffuse the conflict and improve communication in your divorce.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Mediation/benefits-of-divorce-mediation.html

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Can I Get That Kidney Back, You Cheater!

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

It’s all over the news today (here and here and here) about a New York surgeon who’s getting a divorce from his wife and asking for the kidney back that he donated to her.  He gave her a kidney in 2001 and 18 months later, the husband claims, she’s taking his kidney out with another man.  Divorce ensues.  Custody issues abound… regarding their three kids.  Then Husband sues to get his kidney back… oh, or he’ll take $1.5 Million in lieu of the kidney.

Divorce lawyers in Dallas as well as nationally agree that he’ll probably be unsuccessful in his efforts.  “The kidney is a gift, which, under Texas law, would be the wife’s separate property,” says 17-year family law specialist Michelle May O’Neil.  “The affair certainly entitles the Husband to a divorce, and he may get an unequal division of the property in his favor because the Wife is a bad actor in the relationship, but he won’t win the lottery as a result.”  Husband should have thought about that possibilty before he parted with the organ.

Even so, it makes for good fodder for news media coverage.

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