Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Can Your Ex-Spouse Stand Between You And Your Dream Job?
If you told your friend that your spouse was sabotaging your efforts to find a job and to perform your job duties once you were hired, your friend would say that you were in an abusive relationship. You would say the same thing to someone who told you that their spouse was pressuring them… Read More »
Why Is Divorce So Expensive?
These days, almost everyone, regardless of marital status, is experiencing financial stress, but seeing your nest egg disappear when you get divorced is a unique kind of pain. When celebrities get divorced, journalists stoke the public’s envy by writing about the enormous value of the couple’s assets, but also their Schadenfreude at how much… Read More »
Refinancing Your Mortgage After Divorce
A home mortgage is the biggest debt that most people take on in their lifetimes, so divorce cases are more complicated in cases where the couple owns a house encumbered by a mortgage than where the marital home is paid off or where the couple has been living in rented accommodations throughout the marriage. … Read More »
Tying Up Loose Ends After Divorce
Divorce is a marathon, not a sprint. After you submit your completed marital settlement agreement to the judge or, in the case of acrimonious divorces, after a judge issues a decision about division of marital assets and debts, it is easy to feel like you are about to cross the finish line. As every… Read More »
Is Your Divorce Case Destined For Trial If You Can’t Reach A Settlement Through Mediation?
If you are dreading the idea of facing your spouse in a courtroom and the judge hearing her say all the terrible and at least partially untrue things about you that she said to you when she told you she wanted a divorce, the good news is that probably will not have to. Most… Read More »
What Does Divorce Feel Like?
Approximately half of all marriages end in divorce. This means that, unless you have spent your entire life in a community where social norms prohibit divorce, you probably know some divorced people, and you were probably in contact with some of them while their divorce case was going on. Maybe your parents even got… Read More »
Judges Don’t Care Which Spouse Keeps The Dog, But Divorce Lawyers Do
We have all heard the stories about the celebrities who battled it out in divorce court over their pampered pets. Jon and Kate Gosselin seemed more emotionally invested in who got to keep the family’s two German shepherds than how to apportion parenting time for Jon and Kate’s eight children; the breeder ended up… Read More »
3 Problems You Can Solve By Signing A Prenuptial Agreement
Prenuptial agreements can do more than limit the amount of money your trophy wife can take from your vast fortune in the event of a divorce. In an age where households with six-figure incomes are living paycheck to paycheck, most of us can’t even afford the paper on which to print a prenuptial agreement… Read More »
New Year’s Resolutions For Newly Divorced People
Last year, you set, and kept, the resolution to file for divorce on Divorce Monday. Now the year is ending, and you are legally single. Going through a divorce has shown you that, no matter how hard you wish and no matter how much you plan, some things are outside your control. Not letting… Read More »
3 Important Questions For Your First Meeting With A Divorce Lawyer
Divorce Monday has come and gone, and now it is time to deal with the consequences. More people file divorce petitions and initiate contact with divorce lawyers on the first business Monday of the year than on any other day of the year. This year, Divorce Monday is on January 9, which means that… Read More »
