Family Law Practice Areas
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Child Custody, Timesharing and Support
We approach our cases with sincerity and respect, and we recognize our responsibility not only to our clients, but also to promote and protect the best interests your children.
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Divorce
We work with men and women throughout the course of a divorce proceeding. We are here to help you through your divorce and into healing – successfully.
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Domestic Violence
Many family law disputes involve violence or the threat of violence, necessitating protection orders. We are experienced at getting their clients the protection from violence they need with orders of protection.
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Grandparents Rights
Grandparents may be awarded visitation during or following a court proceeding pertaining to paternity, legal separation, or dissolution of a marriage.
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Guardianship and Conservatorship
A guardianship or conservatorship is a legal right given to a person to be responsible for the food, health care, housing, finances and/or other necessities of a person deemed fully or partially incapable of providing these necessities for himself or herself.
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Invalid Marriages
Marriages can be declared invalid for a variety of reasons, including whether a party entered into the marriage under duress or based on fraudulent circumstances, or if one party was already legally married at the time of the second marriage.
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Legal Separation
The major difference between a legal separation and a divorce is that the parties remain legally married at the end of the case.
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Paternity
When an unmarried woman has a child, an official act is needed to establish the legal father of the child.
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Post Decree Modification of Custody and Support
The child custody modification action is brought in order to change the parent named as the custodial parent in a parenting plan, who is the parent with whom the children live the majority of the time.
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Relationship Agreements
By making relationship agreements before marriage about how property and finances should be divided if the marriage ends, parties can potentially avoid expensive and confrontational divorce litigation.
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Domestic violence should not happen to anybody, ever. Maybe you have lived with abuse, maybe it happened just once; maybe you work or live next to someone who is being abused right now. There is help.
New Mexico courts will enter an Order of Protecting to protect an adult or child has been or is in imminent danger of being a victim of violence. These protection orders usually prohibit the named defendant (the violence perpetrator) from making any contact with the named protected person(s) or from even coming within a specified distance of the protected person(s). Anyone breaking the terms of a protection order faces criminal arrest and prosecution.
Unfortunately, many family law disputes involve violence or the threat of violence, necessitating protection orders. The Law Office of Clifton L. Davidson, LLC is experienced at getting their clients the protection from violence they need with orders of protection.
The terms of personal protection orders can be drafted to suit the needs of individual cases. For example, sometimes special provisions need to be made to allow for visitation with children and exchanges of children.
Tactics used by abusers to assert their dominance and power
- Dominance –They will make decisions for you and the family, tell you what to do, and expect you to obey without question.
- Humiliation – An abuser will do everything he or she can to make you feel bad about yourself or defective in some way. Insults, name-calling, shaming, and public put-downs are all weapons of abuse designed to erode your self-esteem and make you feel powerless.
- Isolation –He or she may keep you from seeing family or friends, or even prevent you from going to work or school.
- Threats –Your abuser may threaten to hurt or kill you, your children, other family members, or even pets. He or she may also threaten to commit suicide, file false charges against you, or report you to child services.
- Intimidation – Your abuser may use a variety of intimidation tactics designed to scare you into submission. The clear message is that if you don't obey, there will be violent consequences.
- Denial and blame – Abusers are very good at making excuses for the inexcusable. They will blame their abusive and violent behavior on a bad childhood, a bad day, and even on the victims of their abuse. He or she will commonly shift the responsibility on to you: Somehow, his or her violent and abusive behavior is your fault.
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If you are afraid of someone, or are afraid for your children, contact the Law Office of Clifton L. Davidson, LLC today and take some positive steps to protect yourself and your family.
You can also visit this website for New Mexico Domestic Violence Advocates & Support: http://www.aardvarc.org/dv/states/nmdv.shtml
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