Utah Family Law Blog
Welcome to the BartonWood Family Law Blog, your trusted resource for insights, updates, and guidance on family law matters in Salt Lake City and throughout Utah. Kara Barton and Ashley Wood, are experienced attorneys dedicated to helping families navigate legal challenges with clarity and compassion. This blog offers practical information on divorce, custody, adoption, and more. Whether you’re just beginning your legal journey or looking for guidance along the way, we’re here to help you stay informed and empowered.
What Can You Do if Your Ex Refuses to Pay Child Support Payments?
July 30th, 2023
Child support can be important to ensure your child’s basic needs are met. Once an order has been issued by a judge, a parent cannot simply stop making payments or reduce them without the court’s permission. But what happens if your ex refuses to…
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Categories: Child Support
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Tips for Making Smoother Parenting Time Transitions
June 29th, 2023
Living in two houses can be tough for a child, and one of the most difficult aspects of splitting time between parents is the transition. Children need routine — depending on their age, moving between parents can impact their sense of stability and…
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Categories: Parenting and Parent Time
Divorce and Life Insurance: What You Need to Know
May 31st, 2023
Divorce changes a lot of things—some obvious, and some less so. One of those less-obvious things is what happens to your life insurance. Some people don’t even think about life insurance after divorce until a tragedy happens, making the issue sud…
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Categories: Utah Divorce Law & Process
When (and How) to Modify Child Custody
April 30th, 2023
There are some parts of a divorce decree that generally cannot be modified, but a child custody order is always modifiable. Why? Because Utah law requires that an order for child custody be “in the best interest of the child,” and what is best fo…
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Categories: Child Custody
Helping Your Child Deal With a Parent’s New Partner
March 30th, 2023
As hard as divorce can be for parents, in some ways, it is even more challenging for children, who have even less control over the situation. It takes time for children to adjust to their parents living apart, and to the new routines that may need to…
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Categories: Parenting and Parent Time
What are the "Best Interests of the Child?"
March 3rd, 2023
If you have done any research at all on how Utah courts make child custody decisions, you have encountered the phrase “the best interests of the child.” Courts in Utah and other states make custody decisions based on the best interests of the chi…
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Categories: Child Custody
What is Divorce Discovery, and What is Included?
January 31st, 2023
Divorce means making many decisions: how the couple’s children will spend time with each of them, which spouse will receive which assets and debts, and whether one spouse will need to pay alimony to the other. And, of course, to make sound decision…
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Categories: Utah Divorce Law & Process
Challenges for Blended Families
December 6th, 2022
A senior emergency room doctor we know used to assign challenging cases to interns with the introduction, “I have an opportunity for you to excel.” He wasn’t being sarcastic; he wanted to positively reframe a task that might have seemed dauntin…
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Categories: Parenting and Parent Time
Relocating With Your Child After Divorce: Proving Relocation is Best for Your Child
October 3rd, 2022
Divorce is a major life change, for both the divorcing spouses and their children. Typically, after a divorce, it is ideal for parents to live near enough to one another for both of them to spend time regularly with the children. But life often conti…
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Does Domestic Violence Affect Your Divorce?
September 6th, 2022
Divorce is never easy. But when a marriage involves domestic violence, divorce can be much more complicated. Domestic abuse may be the reason that one spouse decides to divorce. Sometimes, the high emotions of the divorce process contribute to one pa…
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