State: Utah
Cordell & Cordell CEO Scott Trout Promotes Boise, Salt Lake City Divorce Seminars
Cordell & Cordell CEO Scott Trout recently appeared on KBOI-Boise and KZNS-Salt Lake City to promote the two free Men’s Divorce School seminars being hosted in those cities later this week.
Men’s Divorce School Seminars Planned For Boise, Salt Lake City
Cordell & Cordell recently announced it is hosting two free Men’s Divorce School seminars in October in Boise, Idaho, and Salt Lake City
Fox News Quotes Joe Cordell Regarding Utah’s ‘Health Crisis’
Cordell & Cordell Principal Partner Joe Cordell was recently quoted in a FOX News article concerning the impact that viewing pornography can have on marital relationships.
Two Cordell & Cordell Attorneys Named Mountain States Rising Stars By Super Lawyers
Two Cordell & Cordell attorneys were selected to the 2014 Mountain States Rising Stars list for family law attorneys by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business.
Jonathan Winn (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Brandon Leavitt (Henderson, Nevada) were both selected to this list for the first time.
Each year, no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area.
Lawyers are asked to nominate the best attorneys who are 40 years old or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less, and who they have personally observed in action.
KSL NewsRadio Features Jonathan Winn, Importance of Fathers
The importance of fathers remaining in their children’s lives post-divorce was the subject of a KSL NewsRadio report featuring Cordell & Cordell Midvale divorce lawyer Jonathan G. Winn.
Mr. Winn said divorce laws get in the way of fathers who want to spend more time with their children because many judges believe there needs to be a primary parent.
“When they’re asked, when the custody evaluation is done and the full process is done, most kids will say they want to do 50/50,” Mr. Winn said. “They want to have equal parent time with each side.”
He tells divorced fathers not to give up in their quest to be with their children.
“A lot of guys will get a bad temporary order,” he said. “They’ll give up, they’ll resign to that and then they’ll quit.”
Click the link to read the full article, “How important are fathers in children’s lives?”
Cordell & Cordell Custodial Interference Case Featured in Utah
Cordell & Cordell Utah attorney Jonathan Winn and his client Matthew Brown were interviewed on the epidemic of custodial interference in Utah, which has seen cases in the state nearly triple over the past 10 years, according to an investigative report by KSL News in Salt Lake City.
Utah law states that if a parent intentionally withholds a child from the other parent who is entitled visitation, they’ve committed a crime. But Mr. Brown, a Cordell & Cordell client who was the victim of custodial interference, told KSL News that he believes the law is rarely enforced against women.
“There’s nothing I’ve been through that’s harder than this,” he said.
Mr. Winn, who has been defending fathers’ rights in Utah for years, believes dads are the underdogs of the family court system.
“The many crimes that are out there, this is a crime against children which should be enforced by the courts,” Mr. Winn told KSL News.
Mr. Brown came to Cordell & Cordell with issues of receiving his parenting time. Due to the constant interference with custody, Mr. Winn filed a successful Petition to Modify Custody with Mr. Brown receiving full custody of his children, in addition to an award of attorney fees.
If you are a father dealing with custodial interference, contact a Cordell & Cordell fathers’ rights attorney today for helpful information and possible legal representation.