While the circumstances surrounding a high-net-worth divorce do not remove the possibility of utilizing mediation, it would be wise to retain a lawyer and contact an accountant, due to the weight of the assets at hand. Moreover, if you are…
When the court constructs a custody arrangement, and in deciding the specific details of the custody of the child/children, there are some relevant factors, and a few, highly important, considerations. The court, in deciding the custody of the child, must…
Although you may receive a settlement in a divorce decree that stipulates that your former spouse is responsible for relieving some of your debts (it is rare that a full award will be made), this does not mean that the…
While it is possible to be awarded some of your former partner’s 401k, it is certainly not a given in every divorce. A family court judge must approve and sign a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, commonly referred to as a…
While there are no set-in-stone advantages of being the spouse that initiates the divorce by filing in court, the inherent nature of being the filer, as opposed to the responder, is what makes it the more desirable position of the…
To many of those who are exploring options for divorce, Collaborative Divorce, a recent addition to the list of ways spouses can get divorced, sounds a lot like mediation. In some ways it IS like mediation, except that in a…
There are many common reasons why one of the spouses in a marriage cannot afford a divorce. By “afford a divorce”, I am speaking primarily about being able to afford to retain legal counsel. The reasons for this can vary,…
Many people who are preparing for divorce get anxious when they begin to think about incurred debt, both their spouses and their own, and if they will be responsible for paying this debt off once they are separated from their…
When a non-custodial parent isn’t making child support payments, a common, yet misguided, response by the custodial parent is to withhold visitation rights to the other parent. Especially is this is not done through legal means and simply by but…
For a variety of reasons, a parent that is planning on receiving full custody of their child after a divorce may want to change the legal name of the child, specifically their last name, If it comes from the other…