- You must be an experienced professional working in the divorce and family law arena or an expert who provides services to them.
No other applicants will be considered. - Your blog post:
- Should be about 1,200 words in length; minimum 600 words and maximum 2,500 words.
- Must be highly relevant to family lawyers and other professionals working in the family law/divorce arena.
- Must be clear, easy to read, and ready for publishing.
- Cannot be an advertorial for your service or product.
- Can be an excerpt from your non-fiction book.
- Should preferably be original and not previously published on the Internet. We will consider articles that have been posted on your own blog/website or another niche website with limited readership; such an article must include a disclosure: “A version of this article originally appeared on www.My Blog.com.”
- However, to make your blogging commitment a little easier for you, we will accept the following exceptions to the above rule:
- If you are blogging six times a year for us, two out of those six annual posts may have been posted on your own website/blog before appearing on FamilyLawyerMagazine.com.
- If you are blogging 12 times a year for us, four out of the 12 annual posts may have been posted on your own website/blog before appearing on FamilyLawyerMagazine.com.
- In both cases, you must add a line to the end of the article stating where it originally appeared; e.g., “A version of this article originally appeared on www.YourBlog.com”
- In the event we publish your article:
- You will receive attribution in the form of a “byline” and an “author credit” (max. 50 words) with a link to your website at the end of the article.
- You agree not to post the article elsewhere online – with the exception of your own website or blog.
- FamilyLawyerMagazine.com reserves the right to edit the article for content, house style, length, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization), and to add one or more images to the article.
- FamilyLawyerMagazine.com reserves the right to keep the content on the website indefinitely.
- You retain ownership and copyright of the original, pre-edited article.
- We will remove offensive language or overt self-promotion; we reserve the right to edit or delete posts.
- Posts intentionally promoting hatred based on gender, race, religion, etc. – and the account associated with the post if this is a “second strike” – will be deleted.
