Family Law News Blog

Un-‘Seal’-ing the Deal: Seal Files for Joint Physical Custody

On January 27, 2012, we reported that Heidi Klum and Seal had decided to end their marriage with Heidi filing documents with the Los Angeles Superior Court.  In those documents, Heidi requested joint legal custody of the couple’s four children (three with Seal and one from Heidi’s previous relationship) with visitation rights for Seal.

However, on April 10, 2012, Seal filed court documents asking for joint physical custody of the children.  Read More…

A whale of a settlement for Seal?

As mentioned in last week’s blog, there are a myriad of issues to consider when it comes to the pending divorce between model Heidi Klum and the artist known as Seal.  Since we’ve already discussed the custody of Seal’s non-biological child, we should move on to the next most interesting topic – what is going to happen with all the money?  All we know so far is that there is a lot of it.

According to Forbes Magazine, it is unclear whether or not there is a pre-nuptial agreement between the parties.  This can certainly make distributing millions and millions of dollars between these two quite difficult.  One would like to think their presumably high-priced lawyers had the common sense to make them sign one.  Read More…

Heidi and Seal: Kiss this marriage goodbye

Heidi Klum and Seal, the seemingly rock solid couple known for, among other things, throwing the greatest annual Halloween parties as well as renewing their wedding vows every year on their anniversary, have called it quits.  Sources close to the Supermodel reveal that she may be filing divorce papers in L.A. County Superior Court as early as next week and that she will cite “irreconcilable differences” as the cause for the split.  Read More…