Dodd Legal
I have no kids in my marriage but did have a complicated property arrangement with my then-wife. I tried for a long time to complete a settlement agreement with my spouse. We went through mediation but my wife got cold-feet and refused to honor the resulting agreement. We then went through several stages alternating small progress and stagnation. I originally hesitated to hire a divorce attorney, being wary of escalating and extending the divorce process, but finally found then engaged Rick. He filed suit to prompt my spouse to hire a lawyer who could provide sound guidance to her about her legal options: alimony, post-divorce health insurance, and allocation of several separately owned real properties between us. Rick negotiated a marital settlement agreement that gave us each what...
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- Separation & Divorce Planning
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- Child Support
- Alimony & Spousal Support
- Marital Property
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I had previously failed to respond to my wife’s divorce complaint which the court dismissed, largely because we couldn’t agree who would accept responsibility for accumulated debt for an automobile that she exclusively drove – until she left it (and accumulated traffic citations) in my driveway when she left Maryland!
Because she was not represented by a lawyer, Rick was patient in correspondence requesting her financial records, and she emailed them the evening before the initial child support hearing.
My husband and I had informally agreed to an uncontested divorce, but benefited from Rick's lawyerly advice and drafting of a Marital Settlement Agreement splitting custody of our three children between Maryland and California, and estimating child support without my spouse's paystubs to prove his income.
He truly cares about his clients and does everything he possibly can to help and has the client’s best interests at heart always.
As there was never a marriage (and no conventional law that applied but for a partnership agreement), Rick was able to negotiate a settlement for me that, frankly, I was not thinking could actually happen.
In my child support case, he noticed and persuaded the judge to correct a calculation error by the child support enforcement agency (deducting my child’s Social Security Income from my support payments) that gained me additional $500/month.
He also makes sure that his client is aware of realistic expectations in their case and realize the best options and outcome possible.
He also pressed aggressively in post-trial proceedings to obtain an order securing my 50% interest in my ex-husband’s pension to overcome delays by my ex-husband’s attorney.
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