Can you provide an overview of the different areas within family law? – Patterson Bray PLLC

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00:00:01 [Music] when it comes to family law the thing that most people think about is divorce divorce includes division of marital assets marital debts alimony and when divorce involves children it also includes custody arrangements child support who’s going to make decisions on the child’s behalf that is everything that’s incorporated in an original divorce outside of divorce there are a lot of children born out of wedlock those also have custody decisions and ramifications we file petitions to establish paternity set child support

00:00:42 get custody set there as well and oftentimes those also have modifications involved outside of that realm family law also includes adoptions there are a number of times people want to bring children into their family and one mechanism for doing that is adoption there are also attorneys that specialize in surrogacy procedures and making sure that there is contracts in place for the surrogate and for the future parents of that child a relatively new area of the law in Tennessee is that when you have

00:01:16 an adoption you can have what’s called a a pack a postad adoption contact agreement that’s relatively new in Tennessee other areas of family law the biggest one I have not mentioned is contempt proceedings but that is the bulk of what we do on a day-to-day basis [Music]

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