Family Law Blog

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October 5, 2017 Cindy Best
Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat. What does that really mean?  Possibly it means to just be nice or something not so pleasant will happen to you? Maybe we should always behave that way: like someone is coming up to us and saying trick or treat. Just be nice all the time and you’ll have no worries. At…

October 3, 2017 Cindy Best
Hold Down the Fort

Should you hold down the fort? I thought I’d touch on what to do if you are going through a divorce and you cannot decide whether to move right away or stay and hold down the fort. If you’ve had conversations with people (not attorneys) you’ve heard it all: if you move, you lose your…

September 26, 2017 Cindy Best
Family Law Pro Bono Night at ASU

On Tuesday, Robbie, David and Stephen volunteered their time for Family Law Pro Bono Night at ASU. The Joel Shepard Family Law Assistance Program offered free legal information to individuals who could not afford it and Robbie, David and Stephen were there and met with multiple people to help them with their legal questions. We…

September 21, 2017 Cindy Best
Arizona Supreme Court Unanimously Affirms the Equal Rights of Same-Sex Parents

By Mark Joseph Stern “On Tuesday, the Arizona Supreme Court issued a highly anticipated decision unanimously affirming the equal rights of same-sex parents in the state. The ruling will require Arizona to extend the same presumptions of parentage to same-sex and opposite-sex couples, ensuring that the state cannot use the pretext of biology to discriminate…

September 21, 2017 Cindy Best
Would You Jump Into A Pool Filled With Jello?

I saw a movie once with this scene where a guy is in mid air jumping into a swimming pool and someone screams, “Stop, it’s electrified!” The jumper had already left the diving board. Yuck. Some people file for divorce and then ask, “Now what do I do?” They left the diving board without knowing if…

September 18, 2017 Cindy Best
Would You Play Poker Without Knowing If a Flush Beats a Full House?

I doubt whether you would try and play any game, poker or otherwise, without knowing the rules. You would either have someone teach you, you would read a book or you would ask someone before you sat at the table and the cards were dealt. So, the same is true with divorce. You need to…

August 29, 2017 Cindy Best
Cindy Best has been selected to the 2017 Arizona American Jurist Institute’s Top 10 Attorneys

Cindy Best has been selected to the 2017 Arizona American Jurist Institute’s Top 10 Attorneys list for Family Law! Each year, no more than 10 lawyers in the state are selected by the selection council at the American Jurist Institute to receive this honor. The American Jurist Institute, is a third party consumer driven organization…

August 28, 2017 Cindy Best
School Starts

Most families have their children starting school for this new school year. Shoes are shined, backpacks are ready, pencils are sharpened. Ok, now there few shoes that get shined or pencils that get sharpened. But school starting is an exciting time for your children. Make it special and peaceful. If you are going through a…

August 22, 2017 Cindy Best
Peace Train

Do you recognize these lyrics? “Now I’ve been happy lately Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has begun Oh, I’ve been smiling lately Dreaming about the world as one And I believe it could be Someday it’s going to come” – Cat Stevens, Peace Train Yes,…

Family Law Success Stories

Best Law Firm has helped thousands of families during the past 18 years. We help families through negotiation, settlements, mediations and court litigation when necessary. The goal is to resolve issues with the least amount of money and stress and only use court litigation as a last resort. Every family we meet is important to us so we would like to share just a few of our success stories with you.

We represented an unmarried father and were able to reunite him with his 4 year old son after the mother secretly moved him to Florida. 

We represented a mother and were able to require the father to undergo therapy before he could have any parenting time with his three daughters who he had been physically and emotionally abusing.  We had a certified domestic violence expert testify in the case. 

We represented an unmarried mother and were able to reunite her with her 2 year old daughter after the father took the child in secret without permission or a court order. 

We represented a husband who had a large estate and the wife wanted assets greater than their prenuptial agreement allowed. 

We represented a wife in a long term marriage to obtain the spousal maintenance that she was due. 

We represented the husband whose wife violated their divorce decree's spousal maintenance agreement by living with her boyfriend. 

We represented an unmarried mother and were able to obtain a large child support order from the father who was a professional athlete and it was upheld on appeal. (Murphy) 

We represented an unmarried father and were able to fight abuse allegations filed against him and get a court order for 50-50 parenting time for his 2 children.

We represented an unmarried father and were able to defend him against false allegations and obtain a court order where he was named primary custodial parent of his 3 year old son.

We represented a mother who lived in Italy whose teenager was unlawfully kept in Arizona after summer visitation by the Father.  It was ordered for the child to return to his mom in Italy. 

We represented a father whose 2 children were taken to Kansas after their divorce was filed in Arizona and the court ordered them to be returned.

We represented a father who lived in Texas and fought for primary custody of his daughter who lived in Arizona. The daughter was able to move to Texas because of the mother's abuse and neglect. 

We represented a Canadian mother whose husband attempted to get a divorce in Arizona where he could keep the kids.  Mother had no long term visa and would have lost her children. Tali Collins was a "friend of the court" and was heard at a Canadian hearing on the same matter that had been filed in BC. 

We were the mediators for a mother who wanted to keep the community house (and equity) and the father who wanted to keep his community retirement. We were able to craft an agreement where she received more spousal maintenance up front which the husband agreed to pay to keep the community retirement he had earned. 

We represented two ER doctors and mediated their parenting agreement which was drafted to help each doctor have the maximum time with their son.  

We represented a father who was a doctor and obtained sole custody of his two daughters after the mother had a worsening mental illness.

We represented a father whose former wife attempted to enforce an out of state child support arrears calculation that was incorrect. We also won the case on appeal.  (Glover) 

We represented a mother and successfully protected against potential kidnapping by the father to a non Hague country, the UAE. The parenting time order put in safety measures and supervisors to protect the daughters. 

We represented a father from Japan to obtain a parenting time order for his young son.

We represented a father to severe the rights of the mother with their two daughters after the mother was imprisoned for criminal abuse against them. 

We represented a father and were able to negotiate a parenting plan with joint legal decision making and a 50-50 parenting plan for his son. 

We represented a divorced couple against the grandmother who wanted visitation time with their daughter against the parents' wishes. 

We represented a married couple and negotiated visitation with a former mother in law, grandmother to their son/step son. 

We represented grandparents and negotiated parenting time with a previously estranged father of their grandson. 

 

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