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Aug 19, 2021
Mandee Pingel Featured in Americas Women Magazine
Dec 23, 2021
The Pingel Family Law Team is Recognized for Excellence
Child Support
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Jan 4, 2022
When Non-payment of Child Support Risks Driver’s License and Other License Revocation
Mar 18, 2022
Can a Man Be Awarded Spousal Support or Maintenance?
Jul 26, 2022
If the Other Parent is not Letting Me See My Kids Can I Stop Paying My Child Support?
Aug 23, 2022
Creative Parenting Plan Solutions
Jan 17, 2024
Relocation in Missouri
Child Custody
Nov 15, 2023
Does My Child Get to Choose Where they Want to Live in Kansas or Missouri?
Nov 29, 2023
Parallel Parenting: When You Can No Longer Co-Parent
May 1, 2024
What Should You Expect from the Judge in Your Divorce or Family Law Case?
May 8, 2024
How to Successfully Maneuver the Minefield of Divorcing a Narcissistic Parent
Oct 27, 2022
What is a Guardian ad Litem and What is Their Role in Your Family Law Case in Missouri or Kansas?
Jul 5, 2023
Why Children with Effective Communication Skills Survive a Child Custody Case Better
Jul 12, 2023
What is Alcohol Use Disorder and How Does it Affect Child Custody Cases?
Jul 19, 2023
Revocation of Paternity in Kansas and Missouri
Sep 6, 2023
Modifying Child Custody and Support Orders: When and How in Kansas
Sep 15, 2022
How To Lose Your Case in Family Court
Oct 6, 2022
How Old Does a Child Have to Be To Choose Which Parent They Want to Live With?
Oct 11, 2022
About the Children: Having a Child-Centered Divorce or Custody Case
Oct 13, 2022
What is the Best Interests of the Children?
Oct 18, 2022
How Does Marijuana Usage Affect Custody Battles?
Dec 15, 2022
How Can You Get 50/50 Physical Custody When You Don’t Currently Have Custody (And Why It May Be Unlikely to Happen)
Dec 20, 2022
Five Reasons to Establish Paternity of Your Child
Aug 4, 2022
When Children With ASD Need a Special Custody Plan
Jul 14, 2022
How Do You Avoid a Custody Battle?
Apr 26, 2022
How Is Child Custody Decided in Kansas?
May 12, 2022
How Should You Deal with a High Conflict Person if you Anticipate a Divorce or Other Child Custody Case?
Jun 21, 2022
Personality Disorders in Child Custody Cases
Feb 22, 2022
What is enmeshment and how can it affect a child custody case
Feb 24, 2022
What is Triangulation and how can it Damage Your Co-Parenting Relationship?
Feb 2, 2022
What if I am concerned about the other parent or my spouse abducting my child or taking them out of the country without my permission?
Feb 10, 2022
How Should You Deal with Covid-19 While Co-parenting?
Dec 9, 2021
If we are sharing 50/50 custody of our child, why is there still child support?
Dec 9, 2021
New Year, New You: Is it Time to file for divorce or address other concerns with your current custody arrangement?
Divorce
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Dec 28, 2021
What Happens if I Fail to Respond to a Divorce Filing?
Jan 6, 2022
How Long Will The Divorce Process Take in Kansas or Missouri?
Jan 11, 2022
What Questions Should You Ask Your Divorce Attorney When You Meet?
Jan 14, 2022
What do I do if I was just served with Divorce Papers?
Feb 15, 2022
What Should I do If I Need an International Divorce and/or International Service on My Spouse to Commence the Case?
Feb 7, 2022
Should I Hire A Private Investigator for My Divorce or Other Family Law Case?
Feb 8, 2022
Why Your Children Need Protection Against Parentification When Parents are Separated or Divorced?
Jan 25, 2022
What Should You Expect if Your Divorce or other Family Law Case Has to go to Trial?
Jan 27, 2022
When You’re Divorcing: Does Your Attorney Have a Plan?
Mar 8, 2022
Do you Need A Financial Plan When Going through a Divorce?
Mar 10, 2022
What Financial Information Should I Put Together to Prepare for a Divorce?
Apr 1, 2022
How Can you Lower the Cost of Your Divorce?
Apr 5, 2022
How Do you Deal With One Spouse Trying to Get an Unfair Advantage in a Divorce Case?
Apr 7, 2022
How Do I Protect Business Assets through a Divorce?
Mar 22, 2022
How Do I Become a Great Single Parent After Divorce? A Mini-Guide for Parents!
Apr 21, 2022
What is a Vocational Rehabilitation Evaluation and When Would you Need One In A Family Law Case?
Jun 14, 2022
Gaslighting in Divorce
Jun 16, 2022
What is Alcoholism and how does it affect divorce?
May 10, 2022
How Do You Deal with Divorcing a Spouse with Borderline Personality?
Jul 21, 2022
Identifying and Dealing with Narcissists, Sociopaths and Other High Conflict Personalities and How to Divorce Them
Jun 28, 2022
Divorce and Midlife Crisis
Aug 25, 2022
How Do I Divorce A Sociopath or Pscyhopath?
Aug 30, 2022
How Do You Prove Domestic Violence In Your Divorce or Protection from Abuse Case?
Sep 6, 2022
How Do the Courts Divide Assets in A Divorce In Kansas?
Dec 28, 2022
How Does the Court consider Asset and Debt Division in Kansas?
Jan 4, 2023
What Should You Do to Prepare for a Divorce?
Oct 20, 2022
How Does Abandonment Affect My Divorce?
Apr 5, 2023
Creating a Productive Divorce Strategy
Apr 12, 2023
You want a divorce; now how do you tell your spouse?
Apr 19, 2023
What Happens to the Pets when you Get a Divorce?
Apr 26, 2023
Why Picking a Family Law Attorney Who Has Connections Matters to the Outcome of Your Case
May 3, 2023
What is Bifurcation in Kansas and How Does it Affect Your Kansas Divorce Case?
May 10, 2023
Why I Should Have Never Signed the Prenuptial Agreement
May 17, 2023
How Does Social Media Affect Divorce?
May 24, 2023
What is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA) and is One Needed for your Case?
May 31, 2023
The Reality of Having Your Day in Court And Why Settlement Is Often Better:
Jun 7, 2023
How can Metadata Affect Discovery in Your Family Law (or Divorce) Case?
Jun 14, 2023
How to Turn Your Divorce Into the Breakup from Hell
Sep 27, 2022
How do you declare your marriage invalid in Kansas or Missouri?
Sep 29, 2022
How Do You Limit Contact with Your Ex After A Divorce?
Oct 4, 2022
Should I Do Marriage Counseling During Separation or Divorce?
Aug 16, 2022
My Spouse is in the Military and Stopped Paying Spousal Support. What Do I do?
Aug 18, 2022
Why Do Divorces Happen? Four Reasons that Most People Get Divorced (from a Divorce Attorney)
Sep 13, 2022
Why Does Your Annual Social Security Statement Matter to a Divorce Attorney?
Nov 3, 2022
Best Tips For A Successful Divorce Mediation In Kansas Or Missouri
Nov 8, 2022
Email and Computer Hacking in Divorce or Family Law Litigation in Kansas and Missouri
Nov 10, 2022
Estate Planning After a Divorce in Kansas or Missouri- What Do You Need to Know?
Nov 15, 2022
Should I Settle Or Go To Trial?
Nov 17, 2022
What Should I Expect If My Family Law Case Goes to Trial in Missouri or Kansas?
Nov 22, 2022
What Should You Consider Before Moving out of the Marital Home? Some Advice from a Family Law Attorney In Kanas and Missouri.
Nov 24, 2022
A Military Divorce: What is the 20/20/20 Rule?
Nov 29, 2022
The Importance of Confidentiality Agreements and Protection of Sensitive Business Records in Divorce and Family Law Cases
Dec 1, 2022
Taking Care of Yourself During a Divorce or Other Family Law Matter
Sep 6, 2023
Alimony vs. Spousal Support: What is the Difference
Jun 28, 2023
If You and Your Spouse Are Divorcing and Own a Business Together, What Are Your Duties to One Another?
Sep 27, 2023
Going Through Divorce or Family Law Matters With Traumatic Brain Injury: What You Need to Know
Jul 26, 2023
What is Malignant Narcissism?
Aug 2, 2023
Will I Be Responsible for My Spouse’s Debt if I Get Divorced?
Dec 13, 2022
Executive Perks and Compensation: How Do We Analyze and Value Some of Intangibles to Make Sure All Compensation is Considered
May 17, 2024
What Is a Trial Separation and Is It a Good Idea for You and Your Family?
May 24, 2024
Six Tips to Decide if Your Divorce Attorney is the Best Fit For You
Apr 24, 2024
What Should You Expect From Your Spouse’s Divorce Attorney?
Dec 27, 2023
A Jewish Get: “Giving The Get” What You Need to Know
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Jan 18, 2023
Can You Plead the Fifth Amendment in a Family Law Case?
Nov 1, 2022
Marriage and Immigration Fraud: What You Need To Know
Aug 16, 2023
What To Expect When Hiring a Family Law Attorney
Aug 23, 2023
What do you need to know about the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) in your Family Law Case?
Aug 30, 2023
How Do You Lose in Family Court?
Sep 6, 2023
Grandparents Rights and Visitation in Missouri
Aug 11, 2022
Experienced Family Law Trial Counsel to Co-Counsel Cases for Trial or Provide Local Counsel for Out-of-State Family Law Attorneys
Sep 20, 2022
How Ordering and Obtaining Documents Can Win Your Family Law Case
Sep 22, 2022
How Do the Changes in Federal Student Loans and Delayed Repayment to 2023 Affect Family Law Cases?
Jun 21, 2023
Common Law Marriage: A Kansas Supreme Court Case
Jul 28, 2022
Big news: An Important new United States Supreme Court Affecting Family Law (and a bonus Federal case)
Jul 19, 2022
Why Do Many Clients Choose a Female Family Law Attorney?
Jun 7, 2022
Moore v. Moore, a Western District Court of Appeals opinion entered on May 17, 2022
Apr 28, 2022
Why Is It Important that My Family Law Attorney Knows about Tax Issues?
May 3, 2022
How is the War in Ukraine Affecting Family Law Cases in Kansas and Missouri?
May 19, 2022
What Should You Do If You Are Served With a Subpoena?
May 24, 2022
What Is Borderline Personality Disorder and How Does it Affect Your Family Law Case?
Mar 3, 2022
What if You are Estranged from Your Children? How Should You Reconnect and Enforce Your Parental Rights?
Mar 1, 2022
Why Fathering Matters?
Jan 4, 2022
What Is a Deposition (and how is it applicable to your divorce or family law matter)?
Feb 17, 2022
What is Malicious Parent Syndrome and What Do You Do If It is Affecting Your Family?
Jan 18, 2022
What is a Motion For New Trial and Why Might I Need One?
Parental Alienation
Jan 20, 2022
What do you do if you believe your children are being alienated and how do you combat it?
Adoption
Mar 3, 2022
What are the Steps and Requirements to Complete an Adoption in Kansas?
Mar 16, 2022
What is the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children (ICPC) and How Does it Affect Adoptions in Both Kansas and Missouri?
Grandparents Rights
Mar 21, 2022
Corson v. Corson, and Korn, Proposed Intervenor, how does a recent Eastern District, Missouri case affect the burden of grandparents when they seek grandparent’s visitation rights in Missouri and seek to intervene? (ED109820)
May 26, 2022
How does the Kansas Supreme Court case of Schwarz v. Schwarz affect grandparent’s rights in Kansas?
Protection Order
Apr 12, 2022
What is a Protection from Stalking Order in Kansas and When Do You Need One?
Apr 14, 2022
What Is a Protection from Abuse Order in Kansas?
Legislative Changes
Mar 29, 2022
What are the Legislative Changes in Section 455 RSMo regarding orders of protection in Missouri that happened during the year 2021 and why do the changes matter to you?
Prenuptial Agreements
May 17, 2022
What Is a Prenuptial Agreement?
Sep 8, 2022
Why Are So Many Millennials Getting Prenuptial Agreements?
Mental Health
Jan 11, 2023
Mental Health Evaluations in Missouri
Subpoena
Apr 19, 2022
How Do You Obtain an Out-of-State Subpoena or Take a Foreign Deposition?
Abuse
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Aug 9, 2022
Can I Be Awarded Attorney's Fees as a Sanction if My Spouse Makes False Child Abuse Allegations?
May 31, 2022
Post-separation Legal Abuse. What is it and how do you know if you’re a victim?
Oct 25, 2022
What is Economic Abuse and How Does it Affect Your Divorce or Family Law Matter?
Sep 20, 2023
What is Reactive Abuse?
Jul 31, 2024
Possible Outcomes When Sexual Abuse is Alleged and Litigating/Addressing Child Sexual Abuse
Co-Parenting
Aug 9, 2023
In Missouri a New Equal Parenting Time Law Is Going Into Effect in August
Dec 6, 2022
4 Tips for (Successfully) Co-Parenting Through The Holidays
May 5, 2022
Parallel Parenting: When You Have to Co-Parent with a Narcissist
Disability
Jun 2, 2022
A Big Development in Military Retirement Division… Maybe!
LGBTQ+
Jun 9, 2022
Helping Queer Children (LGBTQ+) Through Their Parents’ Divorce: In Celebration of Pride Month
Jun 23, 2022
Celebrating Pride Month: Sensitivity in the Legal Process for Children who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer
Appeals
Jun 30, 2022
A Maintenance Award Must Be Based on Evidence: Doyle v. Doyle, a new case issued by the Southern District Court of Appeals in Missouri
Hague Convention
Jul 5, 2022
What if you Believe your child is at Risk for International Abduction?
Cryptocurrency
Jul 7, 2022
A Guide to Cryptocurrency in Divorce in Kansas or Missouri
Jul 12, 2022
How Can I Figure Out if My Spouse is Hiding Cryptocurrency In our Divorce
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