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What Happens When Former Teen Sweethearts Divorce?
You wouldn’t know it from the statistics that circulate on social media and generate endless volumes of commentary, but not all young people in the United States are determined to avoid marriage. The members of Generation Z who only have eyes for their chatbot paramours are the ones that get the most attention in… Read More »
Why Are There So Many Divorces In Alabama?
When you first get divorced, you might feel like you are the only person it ever happened to. All your former classmates that you are still friends with on Facebook seem to be committed to their marriages for the long haul, even if not everything in their lives is as rosy as it looks… Read More »
What If One Spouse Falls On Hard Times After Gray Divorce?
If you wanted to make the claim that, when young people get married and divorced, they do so on a whim, you could find plenty of evidence for that. Emotions rule the day; a flirtatious text to a third party or an emotional outburst at a family gathering blows apart a marriage that has… Read More »
Should You Buy Duplicates Of Children’s Belongings For Successful Co-Parenting?
Having to move constantly between two parents’ houses is stressful for children; at worst, it can make them feel like nowhere is really their home, as much as their parents might insist otherwise. At worst, it can turn into the parents competing with each other to create a home environment that is superficially more… Read More »
Coping With Curveball Divorce
Whether it is a gray divorce, a high net worth divorce, or a cutesy conscious uncoupling that seems staged for social media, divorce is profoundly unpleasant. People who are at their wits’ end with their marriages and long to be legally single wish that they could fast forward through the part where you have… Read More »
After Divorce, You Can Implement The Lessons You Did Not Learn Until It Was Too Late To Save Your Marriage
If you know divorced couples who seem to get along so well that you wonder why they did not stay married to each other, it is not just your imagination. Some people do get along well with their former spouses and the relatives of their former spouses. To understand why, consider the old saying… Read More »
The Hardest Parts Of Divorce
Even before the days of Instagram and Tik Tok, there were lifestyle bloggers who made it sound like divorce was awesome, and that the only emotions they felt during a divorce were relief about getting out of a bad marriage and excitement about the future. Some of the bloggers who sound the most convincing… Read More »
It Is Not Marital Misconduct If Your Ex’s Plans To Get Rich Didn’t Work Out
Nothing destroys trust in marriages like when one spouse lies to the other. Sometimes lies about money can feel even more like a betrayal than carrying on secret conversations with an opposite sex friend, or even behavior that fits everyone’s definition of cheating. Lying is not simply stating something that is not true; the… Read More »
The Importance Of Accurate Financial Disclosures In Divorce Cases
Some divorce cases are simpler than others; if you are worried that divorce will lead to a trial where mutual friends of the couple testify against one spouse or the other, your fears are probably unfounded. Most couples reach an agreement during divorce mediation about how to divide their marital property and, if they… Read More »
What To Do If Your Divorce Sends You Into A Financial Free Fall
Behind the bright lights and the garish garage door covers, most families experience the holidays as a grim reminder of their dismal financial circumstances. Perhaps, as your marriage eroded, the holiday stress got worse each year; it may have been hard to tell which one was the cause and which one was the effect…. Read More »