Divorce and Triathlon
While it may be hard to believe, I was an athlete in a
former life. About a year ago, I went to the doctor for a physical and had to do a double take when the nurse announced my weight. I honestly didn’t
believe her, so I began to weigh myself every time I saw a scale --the gym, pharmacy, grocery store, amusement park –wherever. Apparently, the machines
at the doctor’s office were calibrated correctly, although the doubting attorney in me initially thought otherwise. In response to this very minor
crisis, I started riding my dusty, spider-web-clad road bike bought used from a friend up and down the trails near my office. Slowly but surely, I
started to whip my 42-year-old butt into somewhat better shape. Read More
Your Divorce is News
It has been so long since I wrote a blog article, I’m going
to have to read the manual to remind myself how to make a post, but I guess I figured it out if you are able to read these words. Writing is like exercising,
it is hard to get into the habit, but easy to fall out. R+A did really well for a long time. In fact, you can pick up a cool little PDF of five
years of our blogs HERE. Also, spend some time on this new site.
We worked really hard to make the copy fresh and to give our potential clients lots to think about. Read More
What Color is the Dress- Perception and Family Law
Last night, while settling in for a relaxing evening, my wife showed me the picture that you see to the left. Casually, she asked, “What color is this dress?” Read More
Same Kind of Different As Me: A Book Review
Rachel and I are art collectors. We don’t have anything very expensive or by any extremely well known artists, but our little collection is something we have enjoyed together through the years. I bought our first piece before I left Oxford after finishing law school. It is by a Cuban artist named Exposita and depicts a sad man with a paper hat shaped like a boat on his head. In the gallery, it was hung next to a similar painting, but instead of a boat, the sad figure had what looked like a cooked chicken on his head. The gallery curator explained how Cubans are hungry and looking to escape the oppression of the post communist regime. It was a great story for an average painting. It hangs in the hall of my office today. Read More
Skip Scary Close: A Book Review
I have historically been a pretty big Donald Miller fan. He is the somewhat edgy Christian author best known for Blue Like Jazz, a NY Times bestseller. I have read several of his other works, and check out his blog from time to time. I read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years on a trip to Yellowstone, and its theme of living a better story is one of the reasons Rachel and I started 200 Million Flowers. I later got to spend time with Bob Goff, the whacky lawyer Miller writes about in the book and who wrote his own bestseller, Love Does. We even went to one of his conferences in Nashville. Read More
Life Uniform
Baseball players express their personal styles in various ways through their uniforms. The idea of a uniform, of course, is to identify an athlete as a member of a certain team. But inevitably, the personal tastes and individualism of the athlete will shine through. I knew guys who hiked their pants up high below their knees, and some that wore them all the way to their spikes. Some guys pushed their rainbow arched caps down just above their eyes, and some kept the bill flat but pushed up to their hairline. There are also thousands of differing undershirt styles and enough accessories to make teenage girls jealous. I will not even start writing about a player’s glove, which is by far the most custom part of the player’s on-field identity. Finally, there are dozens of popular facial hair variations, date stamping the era of our timeless American pastime. Read More
My One Hundred Dollar Bet
The guy who taught me how to practice divorce law represented several very high profile women in Mississippi. I don’t know if my work with him is the reason or if it is something else, but I have always helped a slightly higher percentage of women than I do men. Each person and life circumstance is unique, but the one recurring theme is their promise to me they will never get married again. When they say this, I just knowingly smile. “I’ll tell you what, I bet you one hundred dollars you will be remarried in the next five years.” Read More
Sexual Addiction and Divorce
Back in early 2001 when I had been a lawyer for about two years, L.C. assigned me to work for a husband and father in his early 30s. His wife had abruptly left their home in another state with their child and moved in with her parents who lived in a small Mississippi town. The wife’s family was very wealthy. Read More
Step by Step - The Initial Consultation
If you are facing chronic marital relationship problems in Mississippi, or some type of discovery blows the lid off the married life you were living, turn to us. Most people end up here by referral from a non-family law attorney, a counselor, pastor, the friend of a friend or a simple Google search. Read More
It is More Fun to Be the Crazy One
The stuff I work in every day is what people talk about at cocktail parties. The soccer mom who left her car at Shucker’s all night, the swingers who live down the street, and the kid who was sent to school by his daddy in pajamas with a bad case of bedhead. This is the stuff people don’t post on Facebook –okay most people don’t post on Facebook. Read More