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A Cautionary Tale About Dating During Divorce
Raise your hand if, whether your ex-spouse has said this to you directly or not, the main reason that your marriage fell apart is that you are addicted to drama. Some people dread dating after divorce. Even when you are young and brimming with self-confidence, the dating scene is brutal; just look at those… Read More »
How Not to Let Your Divorce Ruin the Holidays
If you think that the holidays are stressful when you are a single young adult who is successful, but not successful enough, in your career, or when you are introducing your adorable but sleepless new baby to your judgmental in-laws, try co-parenting with your ex-spouse during the holidays. With a court-ordered parenting plan, you… Read More »
Should You Ask Your Parents to Co-Sign a Mortgage Loan After Your Divorce?
By the time you get to divorce mediation, you and your spouse might not agree on much, but you will still agree that you want your divorce to cause as little stress for your children as possible. Couples who cannot afford it almost always choose to set the terms of their marital settlement agreement… Read More »
Do Your Child Support Obligations Change If You Trade in Your Entrepreneurship Dreams for a 9 to 5?
Entrepreneurship can be rough on marriages. You might think of your ex-spouse’s business venture as the homewrecker who stole your ex’s heart. You might even blame certain social media influencers for whispering lies into your ex’s ears, promising him that he would be rich if he would only quit his job and spend money… Read More »
Equitable Distribution of Assets With Negative Equity
For a while, everything was going great. You were so successful in your career that you were able to qualify for a mortgage loan and buy a house. After you paid down the mortgage for a few years, building some equity in your house, you met the man of your dreams. You got married,… Read More »
Reasonable Use of Marital Funds During a Pending Divorce Case
You and your spouse might have adopted a policy during your marriage where you don’t fight about every expense. Some couples keep part of their money in separate bank accounts and part of it in a joint bank account, and it is each spouse’s own business how to spend the money in his or… Read More »
Personal Goodwill and the Division of Business Assets in Divorce
Sometimes the most valuable things your spouse brings to a marriage are not things. Long-divorced people may confess to folks contemplating divorce that, although their own divorces wrecked them financially, what they really miss is their ex’s cooking, home repair skills, or tact in dealing with difficult social situations. If you are happily married,… Read More »
How Much Do You Have to Pay for Your Ex-Spouse’s Nicotine Habit?
Unhealthy habits can wreck a marriage, just as easily as an obsession with exercise and health food can. Once you get divorced, though, one spouse can indulge in junk food while the other chases a runner’s high, and it doesn’t matter who is right and who is wrong. In a perfect world, the division… Read More »
If Not Collaborative Co-Parenting, Then What?
There are two types of divorced parents in the world, those who believe that life is too short to be considerate of the ex-spouse who broke their heart, and those who have enough emotional maturity that, by antagonizing their exes, they are only making their children suffer. The reality is that co-parenting with your… Read More »
Don’t Let Corporate Sleight of Hand Deprive You of Your Fair Share of Marital Property
Some professions favor people who have a talent for making statements that could plausibly mean both their face value meaning and its opposite. Businesspeople have plenty of tools at their disposal to make it look like they have more money than they have when it is time to persuade lenders to lend to them,… Read More »
