by Heidi Webb | Apr 7, 2021 | 2021
Legal Custody: The right to make major decisions affecting a child under the age of 18.Physical Custody: The actual physical care and control of a child under the age of 18. Chattel: Movable personal property that can be either animate or inanimate, such as hogs,...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 29, 2021 | 2021
Last week I met (via video conference of course) with a financial planner who began the meeting apologizing in advance for the fact that her first grader might be making an occasional appearance as he was at home in remote school. Remembering having also met with her...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 23, 2021 | 2021
The word divorce means what exactly? In writing blogs, one of my goals is to educate people about the divorce process, and how they can best position themself for a successful outcome and a more growth-oriented experience. Recently, it has occurred to me after running...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 5, 2021 | 2021
When I awoke this past Sunday morning, I heard robins chirping outside my bedroom window. Immediately my eyes followed my ears to the nest they were building on the same beam they’ve built a nest on for at least the past 20 years. My next thought brought me back...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 22, 2021 | 2021
While having a fascinating and meandering conversation during a book group in which we were discussing How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi, someone commented that Their Eyes Were Watching God was the best book she’d ever read. I was sort of dumbstruck. Not only...
by Heidi Webb | Feb 2, 2021 | 2021
Last week marked twenty-one years since my father was alive and yet he lives with me every day. Having practiced law with him for ten years, I had the great privilege of knowing him not only as my father but also as my mentor, my colleague, my partner and my...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 22, 2021 | 2021
I wrote this yesterday, the day after the inauguration, and want to share it with you as my immediate unvarnished first-thoughts, as a time-capsule of this moment of historical transition. Pretty immediately after the swearing in of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. as the...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
“I appeared in Court on behalf of a client.” That sentence, spoken often by lawyers, somehow now seems a bit off the mark. What exactly is the appearance being made? If it’s “telephonic” or “on screen” as opposed to a physical presence, is “appearance” still the...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 7, 2021 | 2021
It was 1986 when I began practicing law in the state of Massachusetts, and gay marriage was still seventeen years away from the landmark Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in which the Court held that the Massachusetts Constitution requires the state to...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 17, 2020 | 2020
On this day of blizzarding snow as I’m steeped in reflections of 2020 and eagerly anticipate changes in 2021, I imagine our fresh white blanketed earth symbolically enveloping us in hope. Hope manifests in many forms and often is most visceral on the heels of...
