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June 22, 2020

What is the best part of Christmas? If you answered, “the gift exchange on the morning of December 23rd,” then you must be sharing parenting time with your ex-spouse. Likewise, you might think that the best part of Thanksgiving weekend is making Advent calendars with your children on Sunday evening.

June 22, 2020

When you decide to divorce, one of the issues that occupies your mind is how your divorce will affect your children in the short term or long term. Will they be angry that you broke up the family they have known all their lives?

June 21, 2020

It hurts when you find out your spouse has been lying to you, but it is even worse when you find out that your spouse has lost money that you spent years earning, especially if years went by before you found out how badly your spouse’s behavior affected your financial situation.

June 21, 2020

In recent decades, an increasing number of well-compensated professions require their practitioners to have university degrees, but at the same time, the cost of a university education has risen exponentially. Many young adults find student debt casting a long shadow over their futures.

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 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

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

You have probably heard of prenuptial agreements, but did you know that you can also sign a postnuptial agreement after you are already married? People’s motivations for signing postnuptial agreements vary; sometimes they sign them after a temporary separation, agreeing on guidelines that both spouses will follow after they reconcile.

June 20, 2020

When you break up with someone after a few months of dating, your only losses are emotional ones; in the beginning, you miss your ex and are indignant that he or she dumped you. Soon, you start to feel better, after you listen to your favorite song that your ex hated and hang out with your old friends who appreciate you more than your ex ever did.

June 20, 2020

When you read a news story about a woman murdered by her ex-husband or ex-boyfriend, you usually find out that there were warning signs long before the crime took place. Perhaps the victim changed residences several times so that her ex could not find her.