Missouri Divorce Attorneys Advocating for You
Two things are true of almost every divorce. First, it is a major life event, potentially traumatic for both parties and their children.
Second, if you're going through a divorce, you should have a smart, seasoned divorce and family law attorney working for you to fully protect your rights, advocate for your interests, and handle all the intricate legal details correctly.
Legal and Moral Support
We know how you feel. We try to make this painful experience as easy as possible by being accessible to you, responding quickly to your phone calls, and clearly explaining all of your options at every point in the process.
We Handle a Wide Range of Divorce Matters Extremely Well
Our St. Louis, Missouri, divorce attorneys can help you pursue the results you want in these matters:
- Child custody: Legal custody determines who makes decisions about the child's school, health care, religion and more. Sole legal custody means one parent makes the decisions. Joint legal custody means both parents must agree to make decisions concerning the child. Physical custody refers to the parent with whom the child lives.
- Child support: The amount paid is influenced by the parents' circumstances and incomes, number of children, costs of health care, and other issues.
- Uncontested divorce is one in which the parties work out issues without going to court. You can do it yourself, but the advice of a qualified attorney is recommended to make sure it's done properly.
- Division of marital property and debts requires assessing each piece of marital property: real estate, retirement accounts and other investments, and estimates of income into the future. We excel at complex valuations, particularly when one or both spouses own a business or share business ownership interests.
- Spousal support/maintenance (formerly known as alimony) is money paid by one spouse to another. We know all the complex factors that could affect a court's decision and will aggressively work in your best interest.
- Mediation and collaborative law allows clients to reach a divorce settlement out of court. It's usually best if a divorcing couple decides how to handle their own property, support and parenting issues rather than a judge. Attorney Robert N. Hamilton is highly knowledgeable in these areas.
- Motion to modify can change the arrangements of a divorce decree. One parent's income or circumstances may change due to relocation, job loss, or illness. Modification is also possible if there's a change in custody, or if the child's needs change.
Experienced Missouri Divorce Agreement Attorneys Working to Ease the Transition and Protect Your Rights
Recognizing how difficult divorce can be — physically, emotionally, and financially — we strive to minimize the strain by pursuing resolution through amicable means whenever possible. We can be very aggressive in helping you get everything to which you're entitled in a Missouri divorce agreement. Our lawyers are dedicated to the best interests of our clients and their children above all else.
For an initial consultation about your case and your best strategies, please contact the St. Louis law firm of Kruse, Reinker & Hamilton, L.L.C., and ask for us directly: Robert N. Hamilton and Jennifer R. Piper.
