By Sonoran News – Attorneys for the Gila River Indian Community Monday made oral arguments before the Arizona Supreme Court in a controversial case involving which court – Arizona state Court or the Community’s Tribal Court – will be the ultimate decision-maker regarding the future of a Native American child at risk of being permanently removed from her community. The …
Scarlett Johansson’s custody battle: What happens next?; Kaine Fisher, Rose Law Group Partner and Director of Family Law, provides insight
By Maria Puente | USA Today Another week, another celebrity divorce involving legal jousting over — no, not the bank accounts, the houses or the luxury toys — but the custody of minor children. This week Scarlett Johansson and her French estranged husband have taken the path recently trod by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, and Robin Thicke and Paula Patton. The …
Jolie, Pitt to use private judge in divorce: media; Kaine Fisher, Rose Law Group Partner and Director of Family Law, comments on the merits of sealing the file
By Brendan O’Brien | Reuters Actress Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt, one of Hollywood’s most glamorous and powerful couples, will use a private judge to keep their divorce out of the view of the public, the couple said in a statement to CNN on Monday. Jolie and Pitt reached an agreement to keep all divorce documents and proceedings under …
Cut in aid to needy families costs DES millions; Rose Law Group Partner Kaine Fisher assesses the situation
By Rachel Leingang | Arizona Capitol Times Jillian Vigil lost everything. Literally everything. As she was fleeing a domestic violence relationship, leaving nearly all her possessions behind, her partner even burned her Social Security card. Gradually, the 34-year-old mother of five started to rebuild. She stayed at a shelter with her youngest child, while the four other kids lived with …
Rose Law Group Family Law Department nominated for AZFoothills Best of our Valley Family Law Firm
Rose Law Group is excited to announce that our Family Law Department has been nominated for the AZFoothills Best of our Valley contest for Best Family Law firm. Click here to add your vote. Look for Rose Law Group on the list and be sure to sign in to either Google or Facebook and click the Captcha. Voting is accepted …
Arizona officials work to make child support system more ‘holistic;’ Kaine Fisher, director Rose Law Group Family Law Dept., agrees
By Michelle Chance | Cronkite News For the past two years, Valley resident Robert Faas has lived without custody of his four children. A decade of meth and alcohol addictions took over his life, he said. As a result, the state took the 32-year-old’s kids and placed them with family. Six months ago, a child support representative contacted him and …
Arizona Appeals Court ruling: Birth mom’s same-sex ex has parental rights; follows now a legal trend, says Kaine Fisher, director of Rose Law Group Family Law Department
By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Daily Star The same-sex spouse of a birth mother is entitled to the same legal parental presumptions and rights as if she were a man, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In the first case of its kind in Arizona, the judges rejected the arguments by the biological mother of …
Kelly Mendoza, Rose Law Group Family Law Attorney appointed to the State Bar Family Practice and Procedure Committee
Kelly Mendoza, Rose Law Group Family Law Attorney has been appointed to the State Bar Family Practice and Procedure Committee. The committee’s mission is to “[s]tudy and make recommendations on legislation, proposals and/or issues raised by the Arizona Bench, Bar or public, including rules amendments in other areas of practice that directly or indirectly implicate the Arizona Rules of Family Procedure. …
Kaine Fisher, Rose Law Group Partner and Director of Family Law comments on protecting the children, as Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt
By Andrea Mandell | USA Today Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, USA TODAY has confirmed. The couple married in 2014 and has been together since 2004. “This decision was made for the health of the family,” Robert Offer, an attorney for Jolie tells USA TODAY in a statement. “She will not be commenting at this time, and asks that the …
Donald and Ivana Trump fight unsealing of divorce records; Rose Law Group Partner Kaine Fisher discusses Arizona divorce law in such cases
John Gerstrain | POLITICO Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana are fighting an effort to unseal records of their 1990 divorce, arguing that the real estate mogul’s presidential bid is no basis for prying into court filings related to the couple’s split. The Trumps filed separate legal briefs Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, urging a judge to reject the …
