Divorce

No one starts out their childhood dreaming of growing up and becoming a victim of domestic violence. The epidemic is indiscriminate across gender, age, and socioeconomic status. Regardless of what victims are trained to believe, nothing they did or didn’t do caused the violence, but those suffering long term abuse have a hard time believing…

One of the more complicated parts of divorce is untangling your marital property and assets. No matter how long you’ve been married, both spouses have the right to an equitable division of the assets you’ve earned and collected throughout your marriage. Of course, the perfect outcome would be a divorce settlement where everything is worked…

If you’re reading this blog, you likely know that divorce can be a lengthy and uncomfortable process. Once you reach a final settlement, you and your ex-spouse are ready to put everything in the past and move on with your new lives. However, even with every detail down on paper about the dissolution of your…

Divorce is pretty tough for most couples. You’re going from being an “us” to an “I,” and not everyone is comfortable with that. It’s almost a given that individuals in the process of ending their marriages look for support from someone else. That’s natural and healthy, but when the supportive person winds up being a…

When children are involved in family court actions, it raises the already high level of emotion that both parties are struggling with. It can also mean the addition of a guardian ad litem, possibly a family counselor, or even a visitation supervisor. A judge’s primary responsibility when custody and visitation are at issue is to…

Ask any divorced parents what they fight about, and it almost always boils down to issues related to their kids. There are a lot of myths and falsehoods about child support and child custody, and we wanted to address those myths today. Is child support connected to visitation? A common misconception between parties of a…

If you’ve been together long enough, you know when something feels “off” with your spouse. Sometimes you can chalk it up to having a bad day, or even just going through a rough patch. Sometimes, it’s more serious. How can you tell, though, when a rough patch is turning into something more? What are the…

Your oldest child is finally headed off, or back, to college. If you’re divorced, it can be a bit harder emotionally, even if you’ve already done this once in the Fall. Perhaps even more difficult to come to terms with is the knowledge that your child is no longer bound to a visitation schedule, mandating…