Everything You Need to Know to File Your 2019 Taxes

If you haven’t already started receiving the forms you need to file your 2019 tax return, you’re bound to start getting them soon. While last year we faced a lot of changes, this year will be a lot less jarring. There are a few adjustments you should know about, but for the most part, it’s all going to feel very…

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Author: Lisa Rowan on Two Cents, shared by Lisa Rowan to Lifehacker

The Best Place to Store Bibs

Mealtime with a toddler is crazy enough as it is. There’s the hunger meltdown, there’s the mess, there might even be an overall dissatisfaction with being confined to the high chair while they eat. And where the hell are all the bibs?

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

How does one craft the perfect bowl of cereal?

In case you missed it, musician/rock star Gene Simmons, on the very first day of the new year, sent Twitter into an absolute frenzy with photos of a downright startling breakfast concoction: a bowl of cereal with ice cubes added to the milk.

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Author: Marnie Shure, Aimee Levitt, and Allison Robicelli on The Takeout, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker

IVF creates complex child custody issues

Houston parents commonly use advanced medical techniques to conceive children. The most common technique is in vitro fertilization, or IVF, in which the father’s semen is implanted in the mother’s vagina during ovulation. Many couples have been able to conceive children using this technique and have been happy with the outcome, but unhappy results also occur. A married but separated couple in Lakeway, Texas is disputing the man’s right to assert the rights of a father over a young child conceived using IVF.

The couple married in 2004 and separated in 2012. Before the separation, the couple conceived a daughter using IVF techniques. The girl is now seven years old. The wife filed a petition for divorce in 2013 but never followed up, and the couple is still legally married. After the separation, she began another IVF procedure using an anonymous sperm donor. She subsequently gave birth to a boy in 2015. In 2016, the woman’s spouse filed court documents denying that he is the boy’s father. The situation might have settled but for the existence of a Texas statute regarding presumed fatherhood.

That statute says that if a child is born during a legal marriage, then the husband is deemed to be the child’s legal father. In this case, though, the husband has changed his mind regarding paternity and is asserting fatherhood rights over the young boy. The only way to resolve the controversy is to have the alleged father submit to a DNA test. The husband was ordered to complete a DNA test not later than December 23, but no results have been released.

The case will probably be resolved in early January after the court has had the opportunity to review the DNA tests. Meanwhile, the mother is required to allow her husband access to the little boy.

Issues pertaining to paternity, child custody, and fathers’ rights can be enormously complicated, as this case highlights. This is why consulting with an experienced family law professional may prove beneficial for those who are confronting these matters.


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Author: On behalf of Katie L. Lewis of Katie L. Lewis, P.C. Family Law