The divorce process can be, and often is, an emotionally draining one, not to mention how stressful and tiresome it is. Because of this, spouses are regularly urged to retain a lawyer to represent them in a divorce. It isn’t…
Just because you and your former spouse no longer live in the same state, much less the same house, it doesn’t nullify the non-custodial parent’s right to see their child, if they so choose. Of course, if moving out of…
Your economic situation after divorce may lead to the decision that relocation is the best option for growth and recovery. If you have recently gone through your divorce, there are laws in place that may prevent you from moving out…
What people are most concerned about the divorce process is how assets will be divided after calculating its net worth. However, many seem to forget that debts are also accrued during the marriage as well, and are also factored into…
Many spouses think that if there is joint custody of a child, meaning both parents have physical and legal custody, that they should not have to pay child support, or rather, child support should not be ordered by the court….
In previous blogs, I have covered a vast majority of the many aspects of child custody, and the arrangements, support payments, and rules that operate in that area. Court-ordered custody arrangements have, and can, work well for families for years,…
Divorce can take a long time to conclude. In New York, the waiting period for a divorce can take a whole year. And so, it is not outside the realm of possibility that one spouse may die before the divorce…
Retirement and pension funds/plans are one of the many assets that can be split between spouses as part of a property division in a divorce. A qualified domestic relations order (QDRO), is entered during the divorce, which recognizes that there…
Spouses often target gifts and inheritance during the divorce proceedings. Most of these are assets that they have a vested interested in. Gifts can be categorized differently, for instance, there are gifts given between spouses, and these are often treated…
Although many of us understand the basic idea of alimony, one spouse paying the other after a divorce, many of us don’t truly grasp the process that goes into calculating the alimony. If there should be any alimony that should…