Legal Services At The Intersection Of Business And Life
A marriage can affect almost every aspect of your life, and so can a divorce. Divorces can involve dividing real estate, splitting financial assets, dividing parenting time, and paying child and/or spousal support. Many times division includes doling out retirement funds you earned through your hard work. Divorce is hard and you might be anxious about losing retirement assets to…
Divorce is one of the most difficult things to go through in life. If you have children, it is particularly difficult because getting divorced means splintering your family unit. The danger here is that the emotional upheaval of divorce can be so intense that it seeps into your decision-making abilities. When you allow emotions to drive the bus, you can…
One of the biggest sources of contention during divorce is the division of assets. People spend decades of their lives building wealth and buying things that they enjoy, and no one wants to give up all their stuff because they are splitting up. So parties to divorce typically spend time arguing over who gets the house, the furniture, the vacation…
Most people get married thinking that they will live happily ever after. But as we all know, this is not always the case. Adults considering divorce typically have a hard time wrapping their minds around the immense changes they are considering. But when a couple has children, it ratchets up the inner turmoil to an entirely new level. Even when…
Divorce is never easy. Even in the most amicable and straightforward divorce, emotions tend to run high. Change can be intimidating because we don’t really know what lies around the next corner. And that is never so true as when two people who spent years building a life together decide that it is time to split up. But when you…
If you are newly divorced or separated, your family is going through many changes. And regardless of what month you get divorced or how well-adjusted you are, when the holiday season rolls around, it always seems to bring new challenges. There are two things you can do to make facing holidays after divorce less painful. First, go ahead and expect…
Picture this scene. Sally is in divorce court, and the judge addresses the issue of alimony. Sally makes significantly more money than her spouse, Sam, who has asked the court for alimony. Because their household is now split in two, Sally’s money does not stretch as far as it used to, and she finds it more difficult to make ends…
Decades ago, divorce was frowned upon at any age. But older divorce was especially rare. Most people figured that if a couple remained married until they were 50 or 60 years old, there was not much point in a divorce. But a new trend is emerging as baby boomers age. While the divorce rate for younger adults is declining, divorce…
When parents are getting divorced, it can be difficult on their child or children. Suddenly, the child’s home is splitting up and their future seems a little less stable and possibly scary. Some children have preferences as to which parent they want to live with, and sometimes they can express that preference with the judge during the divorce proceedings. However,…
Marital discord is never easy, and getting legally separated or divorced is even harder for anyone – civilian or military. But when a military couple gets separated or divorced, there are military rules that come into play that do not exist in the civilian world. As a general rule, the military likes to stay out of domestic issues as much…