
Form I-864: The Federal Contract Hiding Inside Marriage-Based Immigration (Why Family Lawyers Ignore It at Their Peril)
A family lawyer negotiates a divorce settlement. Property is divided. Spousal support is waived. The final decree is entered. The file is closed. Two years later, the former husband is served with a lawsuit seeking support under a document he signed years earlier while sponsoring his spouse for a green card. He assumed the divorce ended his obligations. It didn’t.








