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Divorce Procedure: Recent Changes in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

by beaumont on Apr 27, 2011

Social workers state that it is important for divorcing parents with children to go through counseling so that they are able to help their children through divorces. Judges in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, therefore, mandated counseling for all parents with children prior to them issuing a judgment of divorce.

Louisiana law (the code and jurisprudence) says nothing about such counseling being a requirement. The law states that a divorce shall be granted so long as the parties have lived separate and apart without reconciliation for the requisite period of time. Further, Louisiana’s jurisprudence has held that a court cannot make divorces contingent upon such counseling. This means that if a child custody determination has already been established, a court cannot mandate the completion of such counseling in order to get divorced.

There is a narrow loophole in the law, however, because there is nothing prohibiting a court from withholding a child custody...Read More >>



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