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If you have to pay child support, you may wonder: Will my child support payments automatically stop?

The law on child support modification and termination is found here. It says,

“The amount of a child support order shall not be construed to be an amount per child unless specified by the district or administrative

Someone has breached a contract against you, and you wonder: what should you do?

Step 1: Gather together all records of your dealings with the person.

If you paid the person by check, you should be able to get copies of cashed checks from your bank. If you have an online bank account, log into

The short answer is: some wills do go through probate, but not all wills do. A will goes through probate if 1) the property named in the will is in the name of the decedent alone, and no one else, and 2) state law requires that the property be probated in order to be distributed.

You’re a contractor, and you’ve done work on someone’s property. They won’t pay you. You wonder: What can you do?

One way of enforcing a debt owed to you, for work on property, is to file a “mechanic’s lien” or “materialmen’s lien.”

What is a lien?

When I was in college and law school, it

Often, when spouses get divorced, one or both spouses owe debt. Recently someone asked me, “What happens to debt in divorce cases?”

If debt is the separate debt of one spouse, then the court should order that spouse to pay the debt. However, if the debt is marital debt, the court will usually divide the

An increasingly used service in the American court system is “legal ghostwriting.” Legal ghostwriting is the practice where someone represents himself in court, but has a lawyer draft his written pleadings for him. The client signs the legal pleadings himself.

For many clients, legal ghostwriting is less expensive than retaining a lawyer to represent them.

If you’re looking for probate records, you may be asking: Can I find probate records online for free?

In Oklahoma, the answer depends on the county where the probate case was filed. Each county varies as to what records it posts online. In general, the more recently a probate case was filed, the more likely