Louisville Divorce Lawyer | Family Law Attorney in Eastern Jefferson County
Seasoned Kentucky Family Lawyer in Louisville Kentucky
For more than 30 years, Paul Hibberd has been representing clients in various types of legal matters and disputes, not only in Jefferson County, but throughout Kentucky. Mr. Hibberd has been the primary attorney in accidental death cases, serious injury cases, and complicated probate and contract interpretation cases. During the last three years, Mr. Hibberd has elected to apply his negotiation and trial experience primarily to the area of family law with an emphasis on cases having complex financial, business, and custody issues.
Mr. Hibberd has not only represented clients during trials throughout Kentucky, he has also argued cases in the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Kentucky, and the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mr. Hibberd has received training as a collaborative divorce attorney (www.kycollaborative.com) and is also recognized by the Kentucky Court of Justice as a General Civil Mediator. He is actively involved in both dispute resolution by mediation and representing clients in collaborative divorce proceedings.
If you want an experienced Louisville family lawyer, who will listen to the facts about your particular situation, contact Paul Hibberd at the law firm of HIBBERD JOHNSON KANG & COOK, PLLC. The office is located in eastern Jefferson County at the Brownsboro Road exit of the Gene Snyder Freeway with free convenient parking for clients.
Paul Hibberd is a Louisville family law attorney who represents client’s in the following Kentucky family law cases:
KY Divorces – Contested and Uncontested Divorce
Marital Separation
Spousal support and Alimony – Child Support and Support Modification
Child Custody and Custody Modifications – Adoptions
Contempt Actions – Premarital Agreements
Dependency, Neglect and Abuse cases
Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) – Property Division
High Value Divorce Cases – Equitable Distribution
Our Louisville family law firm handles cases throughout the Louisville KY area including:
Jefferson County, Oldham County, Bullitt County, Shelby County, Franklin County, Meade County, Elizabethtown, Shelbyville, Frankfort, hepherdsville, Prospect, Radcliff, Fairdale, and Taylorsville. Our office is located in Louisville KY.
When involved with a Kentucky divorce or child custody case, many people become physically and emotionally exhausted. To help you through the experience, you need a highly competent family lawyer representing your interests. Our law firm will provide you with effective and efficient representation. We will advise you about your options, the issues surrounding your options, and the process you should follow to get the best outcome. We represent clients in Louisville KY, and the surrounding area.
Louisville Divorce Attorney – Louisville Family Law Attorney
When your marriage has broken up, for your and your child’s best interests, competent legal representation is a must. Our family law attorney has experience in divorce, separation agreements, spousal support, contested and uncontested divorce, alimony, child custody, child support, property and asset distribution, and pension rights. If you are a Kentucky resident and you are considering divorce or find yourself presented with divorce proceedings, please contact a Kentucky family law attorney in Louisville for competent representation in your divorce case.
Louisville KY Child Custody, Child Support and Visitation Attorney
Issues surrounding your children are always emotional and often hard to discuss. Resources are divided in a divorce and it’s more expensive to support two households than one. Our attorney is skilled at handling the delicate issues of child custody, child support, and child visitation. While you and your spouse can agree to all issues involved in a divorce, the resulting child custody agreement must be approved by the court. Many things are considered by the court in determining the best interests of the children.
Failure by the responsible party to pay financial obligations other than child support is typically a violation of the divorce decree, which usually incorporates the parties’ property settlement agreement as an enforceable order of the court. Enforcing the terms of the property settlement agreement is accomplished by making a motion to the court for the offending party to show cause why they should not be held in contempt of court. An experienced family law attorney knows how to prepare the motion and supporting affidavits, as well as how to meet the deadlines for the family court’s motion hour. Failure to pay child support may be handled either by contempt motion or as a criminal matter, depending on the size of the arrearage and whether the offending party has paid any part of the obligation.
Child support modifications can be requested at any time, but there is a requirement that the proponent show a material change in circumstances that is substantial and continuing. A 15% change in the amount of child support due per month under the Kentucky Child Support Guidelines is rebuttably presumed to be a material change in circumstances, while a less-than-15% change is rebuttably presumed not to be a material change in circumstances. KRS 403.213 (1) and (2).
