Kansas City Legal Blog

When working on a construction project, you may need to enlist the help of subcontractors and will you will likely need to work with other companies in order to get your supplies. Often, these business relationships can prove immensely useful, and your construction project can get underway and completed successfully.

However, it is not unusual for projects to hit snags along the way that can delay the project or put it on hold indefinitely. In particular, if subcontractors, suppliers or other parties claim that you have not paid them for their services, they could put a mechanic's lien on the property. While these liens can be useful in legitimate cases, it is not unheard of for parties to make fraudulent lien claims.

Divorced parents in Kansas City have many options in regard to raising their children. However, there are two major parenting structures that are recommended to divorced mothers and fathers. These structures are known as co-parenting and parallel parenting, and each has its own set of pros and cons.

Co-parenting is the structure generally recommended when both parents are able to look past their differences and avoid conflict with one another. This structure requires the exes to maintain contact and work together to give the children a sense of stability and safety. When co-parenting is successful, the children get to enjoy stable, close relationships with both parents instead of having to deal with vastly different parenting strategies. However, co-parenting relies on the ex-partners' ability to get along. Mutual respect is key for successful co-parenting. If exes are still arguing and fighting, co-parenting won't work.

Child custody and child support can be contentious and difficult issues for many divorcing parents in Kansas. After a split, parents will often have less time with their children and, particularly, less unscheduled time. Some parents may be able to put aside their differences and reach a fairly amicable agreement on co-parenting and sharing time. However, other parents with more divisive relationships may instead wind up going through a longer battle over custody and other issues concerning the children.

Both mothers and fathers often feel as if they have been treated unfairly in family court. Mothers may feel they are not taken seriously, while fathers may believe they have been the victims of gender bias. Statistics seem to support that notion, with 80 percent of parents with primary custody being mothers. However, in most of those cases, a custody dispute was not at issue, and the father was not seeking child custody. When fathers take action to seek custody, they have a much higher likelihood of success, despite the presence of traditional or unfair judges.

As a Kansas business owner, you probably rely on relationships with other people in order to conduct your business. You need vendors, suppliers and others with whom you enter into contracts. Whether you are providing the goods or services or receiving them, you intend to hold up your end of the bargain, and you expect the other party to do the same.

However, not everyone does. In those cases, someone may have told you that you could sue for "breach of contract," but you aren't sure whether that really applies in your situation. In order to know for sure, it would help to have some information about what that means in contract law.