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What the Rest of Us Can Learn From Messy Celebrity Divorces
The tabloid press makes it sound like, not only are celebrities effortlessly more beautiful and successful than you are, but they can also divorce their impossibly perfect spouses without breaking a sweat or losing their tempers. Remember Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s “conscious uncoupling?” Remember when the court dissolved Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady’s… Read More »
Spying on Your Spouse During Divorce Is a Terrible Idea
Two wrongs don’t make a right. If your spouse has betrayed your trust by lying to you, having extramarital affairs, or misusing money that was supposed to benefit your family, you will not make things better by going through his phone or computer or otherwise resorting to sneaky means to collect evidence of his… Read More »
Are Insurance Payouts a Marital or Nonmarital Asset?
One of the most difficult hurdles to clear early in the divorce process is that almost all the assets you acquired during your marriage are marital property. In your marital settlement agreement, you can decide that you keep certain assets and your spouse keeps others, but if that would leave one spouse financially dependent… Read More »
What Happens to Your Child Support Obligations If You Have to Retire Early Because of a Disability?
The only thing worse than hearing the amount of child support you must pay each month is knowing that you must keep paying it until your child turns 19 or graduates from high school, whichever happens first. If you have more than one child, the amount will get lower as each child reaches adulthood,… Read More »
Can You Stop a Divorce Case Once It Starts?
You and your spouse hurt each other and got on each other’s nerves for years, and then one day it all boiled over. After one big fight or one too many broken promises, you called a divorce lawyer and said everything that was on your mind. Once you got started, it was easy to… Read More »
Prenuptial Agreements Enable You to Make Your Own Rules
When a new employer presents you with an employment contract, your eyes immediately skip to the part about how much money you get and all the meals, plane tickets, and hotel rooms your employer will pay for. From a legal perspective, though, the most important sentence in the contract is, “The laws of Florida… Read More »
If the Court Overreacts to Your Ex-Spouse’s Hissy Fit, Your Lawyer Can Help You Get Back to a Normal Co-Parenting Schedule
Your ex-spouse’s volatile temper and impulsive decision making are some of the main reasons you are relieved to be divorced. Remember when your ex saw a YouTube video about the dangers of plastic food packaging and abruptly tossed out the mostly full plastic bottles of ketchup, honey, and pancake syrup you had bought from… Read More »
The Court Can Set Conditions on Your Unsupervised Parenting Time
Whenever possible, the family court allows parents to spend their parenting time with their children as they wish. You should not have excessive restrictions on your choice of residence, work schedule, or leisure activities just because you are a divorced parent. When there is proof that the children are unsafe when they are alone… Read More »
Back to School Expenses: A Co-Parenting Dilemma
If you think trying to make difficult financial decisions with your spouse is stressful, try making difficult financial decisions with your ex-spouse. To make matters worse, the less money there is to go around, the more difficult the decisions are. Back to school is a close second, after tax time, when it comes to… Read More »
4 Hard Truths That Make Co-Parenting Easier to Take
Divorce is like an abysmally bad day that goes on for months and months. It will eventually be in the past, but right now, every moment is more stressful and more demoralizing than the last. The acute pain of divorce goes away more quickly if you and your ex-spouse do not have minor children… Read More »
