Author Archives: Jay Butchko
What Can Go Wrong With A Week By Week Parenting Rotation?
Sharing parenting time equally with your ex-spouse is an admirable goal, but it is hard to make it work in practice. Some parents rotate custody week by week, where the children spend one week with Mom followed by one week with Dad, and the cycle repeats until the children reach adulthood, at least in… Read More »
Rebuilding Your Finances From Zero After Divorce
From the outside, being a stay-at-home parent might look like a dream come true. It might look like your time is spent on cultivating family togetherness and, for a certain number of hours per week, on enjoying the peace and quiet of your own home. It can work out well if you and your… Read More »
Gray Divorce After A Tumultuous Marriage
People over the age of 50 account for the fastest growing share of divorce filings, but the only thing that all of these couples have in common is that all of them are on the mailing list of the AARP. The usual narrative about gray divorce that you see on celebrity news websites and… Read More »
Can A Parenting Plan Separate Siblings?
Parenting plans come in all shapes and sizes. In some families, the parenting time is shared so close to equally that neither parent has 200 overnights with the children in a given year. Some families are able to make infant-friendly time sharing schedules, such as 2-2-3-2-2-3 schedules or rotating parenting time on a weekly… Read More »
Which Spouse Keeps The Family Restaurant After A Divorce?
Operating a small business with your spouse or other members of your family can be a great source of togetherness and prosperity. It can also cause plenty of stress and conflict. In particular, operating a restaurant with your family is a 24/7 job. The decision to close or sell the family restaurant is often… Read More »
How Does Your First Marriage Affect Your Second Divorce?
Approximately half of all marriages end in divorce, but people who have been married more than once account for a disproportionate share of these cases. Some people find that marriage is easier the second time around; you are more mature than you were during your first marriage, so you know how to pick your… Read More »
How Does It Feel To Be Divorced?
If you have been psyching yourself up to file for divorce, the content you have been finding online most likely relates to finding the courage to leave an unhappy marriage or coping with the shock that your spouse is leaving you. A pending divorce is a whirlwind of emotions; sometimes you feel like you… Read More »
The Best Divorce Settlement Is The Most Specific One
After you get divorced, you will slowly start to feel relieved about not having to deal with all of the things your ex-spouse used to do that got on your nerves. You don’t have to deal with your ex’s passive aggressive or outright comments when you share something that you think is good news. … Read More »
Using Text Messages As Evidence In Your Alabama Divorce Case
Text messages get an unfair share of the blame for technology-related distractions. Of all the social media notifications and announcements of newly released clickbait that reach your phone in the time it takes you to drive from the supermarket to your home, when a police officer pulls you over, he will insinuate that you… Read More »
What Should You Do To Mark Your Divorce Anniversary
This year, you don’t have to worry about your divorce. You don’t have to steel yourself for another session of divorce mediation or fight in court for temporary alimony to avoid getting evicted from your house. Your year of ups and downs in the midst of a pending divorce case, when you’re not quite… Read More »