Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• My ex-wife has had social services called on her for neglect. What steps do I need to take to get custody of my kids?
• Can my wife keep marital property and assets from while we're going through a divorce?
• How do I go about a forced sale of marital property?
• Even in no-fault states will the court take into effect marital misconduct when dividing the assets?
• What would be the first step in attempting to change modifiable maintenance?
• What are some of the ways to approach a sole custody arrangement?

Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• Isn't a judge the only one with the power to mandate someone to freeze assets, not my ex's attorney?
• My ex wife did not ask for or get part of my retirement at the time of our divorce. Can she still try and get a part of it now?
• My girlfriend and I had a daughter in October. Who has the legal right to claim our daughter?
• What are the differences between primary placement, joint legal and joint physical custody?
• How do you end temporary custody?

What could Elin Nordegren get in a potential divorce settlement with her husband, Tiger Woods?  This morning Cordell & Cordell, P.C. Principal Partner, Joseph Cordell, spoke to Gordon Deal, host of The Wall Street Journal This Morning.

The firm's CEO offered insightful commentary on such elements of the high-profile divorce as to the nature of the rumored prenup, the difference in the various states where the couple own homes in terms of distribution of wealth after divorce, likely strategies pertaining to renegotiation of their prenup, and issues such as Woods' alleged sex addiction.  

Listen in as Cordell explains the options available to the world's most famous athlete as he goes through what is sure to be among the world's most high-stakes divorce.

Question: My son is living in Korea until the summer of 2010. He got married one year ago in Georgia, where his military base is. 

How can he get a legal separation while overseas? 

She has sold all of his belongings, drained his accounts, took the car and broke a lease. He is willing to pay his debts but he needs to stop this before it gets any worse.

Divorcing while facing death has made headlines recently (see Dennis Hopper; John and Elizabeth Edwards) and is now the subject of a Time magazine article that quotes Joseph Cordell, Principal Partner of Cordell & Cordell, P.C.

The article says deathbed divorce is not as uncommon as one may think, and asks the question, “Why would anyone go through (divorcing while dying), considering the irreconcilable differences they already have with their mortality?”

Hopper, the legendary actor, is terminally ill with prostate cancer and is believed to be seeking a divorce from his fifth wife from his deathbed to protect his assets. (Read DadsDivorce.com’s article “Divorcing from your deathbed”) 

Cordell, whose firm is the premier law firm in the country focusing on men and divorce, said in a case like Hopper’s, the adult children of a multiple marrier who develops an illness may try to pre-empt an estate battle by taking care of business before the funeral. 

Why?

“They distrust the new spouse,” Cordell said.

Cordell also recounted the experience of a man dying of ALS whose wife tried to divorce him because she was concerned about the cost of his treatments. 

Click here to read the full Time magazine article.