An alienation clause, also known as a due-on-sale clause, is a standard provision in most mortgage agreements. It requires the borrower to repay the full loan balance if the property is sold or ...

When engaging in a real estate transaction, it's important to understand the details of your mortgage agreement - especially clauses that dictate how ownership can be transferred. One such provision ...

Parent alienation —when one parent, consciously or unconsciously, influences the child to reject the other—is a serious issue that can have long-lasting effects on children and their relationships ...

An alienation clause, commonly referred to as a due-on-sale clause, is a clause in your mortgage contract that requires you to pay the remaining mortgage balance at the sale or transfer of the home.

Parental alienation is a complex form of family violence that targets a parent by means of damaging that parent’s relationship with their child. The two main features of parental alienation are the ...

Over the past year, Hannah Dreyfus has published a stream of “parent’s worst nightmare” journalism on ProPublica. A recent story featured a Colorado mom, Christine, who lost custody of her young son ...

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“The park is full of Sunday fathers and melted ice cream. We try to do the best within the given time. A kid should be with his mother, everybody knows that. What can a father do but babysit sometimes ...

From Davis v. Davis, decided yesterday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion for the court by Justice Leslie King: John and Sandra Davis, a then-married couple, had two children in the 1980s ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...