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June 20, 2020

Divorce cases where the couple rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars of attorneys’ fees over the course of years of litigation are not the norm. Neither are marriages that end with the couple having a calm conversation on their living room couch about how they aren’t cut out for marriage, briefly surveying which assets and debts belong to which person, filing their uncontested divorce forms through an app, and going on with their lives.

June 20, 2020

Divorce can disrupt virtually every aspect of your life, from your relationship with your children to your holiday plans and customs, to your personal financial goals and your progress toward them. If you are an employee of a company, you might feel like work is the only thing in your life that is going well.

June 20, 2020

Fuel for daydreams about what one would do if one were rich is a multi-billion dollar industry. From lifestyle magazines to reality TV shows to celebrity social media influencers to tours of stately homes once owned by people whose main historic importance lies in the fact that they were rich, the 99 percent have a clear picture of what the one percent do with all that money.

June 19, 2020

The first step in determining child custody is deciding what kind of parenting arrangement would be in the child’s best interests. The court starts with the assumption that the ideal situation is for each parent to be with the children about 50 percent of the time; some families are able to work things out so that each parent gets 182.5 days of parenting time per year.

June 19, 2020

If you and your spouse separated during the summer, then by August, you are probably just getting used to having your children with you only some of the time. Maybe you even have a temporary parenting plan in place.

June 19, 2020

After you get divorced, you do not need to seek your ex-spouse’s approval about every little aspect of parenting. Your ex is not there to shoot you a dirty look if you allow your children to have a second helping of dessert.

June 19, 2020

When your children spend part of their time with you and part of their time with your ex-spouse, it is easy to worry that your children like living with your ex more than they like living with you. Maybe your ex has a swimming pool and a PlayStation, while you live in an apartment that is barely big enough for your child to stretch out on the couch and play video games on his phone.

June 19, 2020

Some couples have so little conflict related to the terms of their separation that they can have an uncontested divorce; they simply agree about how to divide their assets and submit their requests to the court, and the court dissolves the marriage according to the parties’ requests.

June 18, 2020

Almost all couples who divorce when their children are minors find that agreeing on a co-parenting schedule and a framework for child-related decision making after the divorce is much more challenging than dividing the couple’s financial assets in an equitable way.

June 18, 2020

Child support is no ordinary debt. If you are in over your head with consumer debts or business debts, you have plenty of options for how to pay those debts, or not to pay them, as the case may be. Some people dodge bill collectors until the statute of limitations expires for their debts. Others file for bankruptcy as often as they can.