Author: Brette Sember
Brette Sember is a former attorney and author of more than 40 books, including The Divorce Organizer & Planner, The Complete Divorce, How to Parent with Your Ex, The Essential Supervisor’s Handbook, The Complete Credit Repair Kit, The Original Muffin Tin Cookbook, and The Gluten-Free Guide to Travel. She writes often about law, parenting, food, travel, health, and more. She blogs at PuttingItAllOnTheTable.com.
Space is the final frontier…for capitalism as well, apparently. A new Congressional law now creates the possibility of giving corporations the right to own pieces of it. How did the cosmos suddenly come up for grabs?
The singer recently filed papers asking for monthly funds to help pay for their eight cats and dogs. The singer says it’s become “overwhelming” for her to take care of all of them and even says she had to cancel a work engagement when her housekeeper was ill.
Most would agree that one of the best parts of the holiday season is the food. And when we eat something tasty at someone’s house, lots of us just have to ask for the recipe. But did you know that recipes are copyrighted? And that the gingerbread recipe you hand out as your own might actually belong to someone else?
Called guardian ad litem (GAL), or law guardian, the GAL is an attorney appointed by the court to represent the rights of the minors (or incompetent individuals) involved in a divorce or custody case. Forging a good relationship with him or her is essential.
Jared Leto is captured on video dismissing Taylor Swift, including the use of several curse words. He’s suing TMZ for posting it. Is he in the right?
“Terrorism” is a word that gets used millions of times a day, not only in the media and the government, but around water coolers and dinner tables. Here’s how the United States government actually defines it?
Handing over yet another huge wad of cash at the vet’s office? Pet insurance sounds like a great way to save money on pet expenses, but is it really all it’s cracked up to be?
With the frenzy of holiday shopping comes shoplifting. About 2 million people are caught shoplifting every year, and 25 percent of them are children. After your initial freak-out, what should you do if your kid is caught shoplifting?
For years, China ranked as the top source of foreign-born children adopted in this country. But China’s leaders realized their one-child policy had produced a gender imbalance, and as a result, there was a serious shortage of women to marry the chosen sons.
Most people have heard of spousal privilege and how spouses can’t be forced to testify against each other in court. But are all communications with your spouse legally a secret? Is everything you tell your spouse really protected by privilege?