Recent Blog Posts
Keeping The Peace About Child Support
In the best-case scenario, co-parenting with your ex-spouse can make you more emotionally mature and improve your relationships with your children, your ex-spouse, and others in your life. Some divorced parents say that, if they had learned the conflict management skills they know now when they first became parents, they would have been able… Read More »
Daycare Costs, Financial Hardship, And Child Support: A Perfect Storm For Conflict
Even for married couples, daycare is a frequent source of conflict. The children’s daycare is always in a location that is inconvenient relative to at least one parent’s work. When one parent wants to leave the workforce or to pressure the other into leaving the workforce, they often cite the costs of daycare as… Read More »
Are Divorce Parties Tacky?
If there is one thing women in Alabama do well, it is female-centric festivities. The debutante ball may be a historical relic, but no one does sorority rush or bachelorette parties quite like Alabama. Nearly every Southern sorority girl eventually ends up with a fairytale wedding, but even Southern Belles eventually find out that… Read More »
Are Assets That You Acquire While Your Divorce Is Pending Marital Property?
From your perspective, getting divorced is about finding a new normal, recovering from a broken heart, and finding a way to live your best life with limited resources. From the court’s perspective, though, divorce is the dissolution of an economic partnership. Its goal is to divide the property that the couple owned when the… Read More »
Alimony In Gross
When people hear the word “alimony,” they often think about one former spouse sending the other a check every month, reopening the resentments that led the couple to divorce in the first place. Most likely, though, you will not have to pay alimony for as long as you think you will. Even if your… Read More »
What Happens If You Encounter A Non-Marital Financial Hardship In The Middle Of Your Divorce?
Rock bottom is a moving target. People who have been divorced for a long time tend to look at the day they filed for divorce as a turning point; after that, things gradually got better. They have the advantage of hindsight, though. While your divorce is pending, it is painfully obvious that life has… Read More »
Your Spouse’s Threats To Deport You If You File For Divorce Probably Aren’t Credible
At almost any social gathering you attend, you will meet married couples where one spouse sponsored the other’s permanent residency. In some cases, this sponsorship took place decades ago, and the immigrant spouse has been a naturalized U.S. citizen for so long that he or she has renewed his or her U.S. passport at… Read More »
How Does The Alabama Divorce Court Deal With Whirlwind Romances?
If you are a Millennial Alabama girl, scrolling through social media as the sun beats down on the bleachers from which you are ostensibly watching your child’s soccer practice, you can bet that your social media feeds will find content to cement your belief that the best days of your life have passed you… Read More »
Will Your Finances Ever Get Better After Divorce?
Here in the land of toxic positivity, where soccer moms enthuse about their latest multilevel marketing business opportunity, even as their bank accounts are overdrawn and their husbands are cheating, we would do well to acknowledge our sadness. What is the point of calling a funeral a celebration of life? It doesn’t change the… Read More »
Can You Delegate Your Parenting Time To Someone Else?
How do families spend time together on the weekends? The short answer is it depends, and it’s none of your business. In one family, the whole family commits to doing chores all day on Saturday and then goes to the park on Sunday and picks up dinner from Raising Cane’s on the way home,… Read More »