Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Can Your Ex-Spouse Disqualify Your Divorce Lawyer?
When you file for divorce, your ex-spouse might try to disrupt aspects of your life that you take for granted, just to mess with you. For example, provided that you have not changed the locks, your ex might come to your house when you are not home and remove furniture that you did not… Read More »
The Smartphone App That Saved Summer Vacation
When you find a group of parents who are sufficiently non-judgmental, one of the most fun ways to pass the time is by grumbling about the smartphone apps that are sabotaging your relationship with your family. Maybe you are hooked on Tik Tok, or Instagram if you’re old, or perhaps even Facebook if you’re… Read More »
Uncontested Divorce In Alabama
To your great surprise and relief, you have discovered that separating from your spouse is much easier than trying to patch things up and stay married. Every holiday with either spouse’s side of the family, every child’s birthday party, and even every date night was a battle. You dreaded telling your spouse that you… Read More »
Legal Separation
In the past, people used to list their relationship status on Facebook as single, in a relationship, married, and “it’s complicated.” These relationship statuses depended entirely on one’s own perception of the relationship; it is possible that one member of an on-again off-again couple might describe her relationship status as “in a relationship” while… Read More »
Getting Out Of A Prenuptial Agreement
In the old days, the stereotype about prenuptial agreements was that they made things simpler when a wealthy misanthrope and his gold-digging wife inevitably got divorced, but recently, people increasingly believe that prenups are for people who have the wisdom and maturity to talk to their spouses about long-term financial plans before they walk… Read More »
Is Collaborative Divorce Right For You?
You may have heard the saying that categorizes people into three groups based on their chosen topics of conversation. It says that people of above average intelligence talk about ideas, people of average intelligence talk about things, and people of below average intelligence talk about people. One might also classify people into three economic… Read More »
3 Summer Co-Parenting Stress Traps And How To Avoid Them
Since the beginning of the modern school calendar, kids have spent the whole year looking forward to summer vacation, and parents have dreaded it. Having to arrange childcare when your children are out of school but your work responsibilities continue unabated is no simple task. Summer travel is a drain on your finances, and… Read More »
The Tax Credit That Could Make It Easier To Sell Your House This Summer
Summer vacation is coming soon, and all the parents are complaining. One of your coworkers is mad because her children’s summer camp starts even earlier than their school, and it doesn’t have a bus. Another is annoyed that, except on the days when her teens are on lifeguard duty at the neighborhood pool, they… Read More »
Can Divorced Parents Live Together In The Same House?
Often, when a couple files for divorce, it has been years since they felt that they were truly living together as a couple. They rarely socialized together, and they slept in separate bedrooms. They ate separate food at separate times and only talked to each other when there was an upcoming deadline relating to… Read More »
Factors That Affect Equitable Distribution In Alabama Divorce
One of the first things a divorce lawyer will tell you about Alabama’s equitable distribution does not always mean equal distribution, but instead, it means fair distribution. If fair doesn’t mean equal, then what does it mean? Can judges just decide, arbitrarily, how to divide a couple’s property in divorce. Is it legal for… Read More »