Category Archives: Divorce
Real Estate Sales During Or After The Divorce
If you and your spouse are not at an impasse about which of you will keep the marital home after your divorce becomes final, you have avoided the worst-case scenario. Even if you agree about which spouse, if either, keeps the house, implementing your plan about transferring it from joint ownership to its new… Read More »
Will Artificial Intelligence Make Your Divorce Uglier?
Generative artificial intelligence is the latest polarizing issue. Its strongest supporters will tell you that AI is better than a human partner. It answers your questions in as much or as little detail as you ask instead of changing the subject, and it does not get offended when you pause it or fast forward…. Read More »
Expert Witnesses In Alabama Divorce Cases
When a case goes to trial, it means that two parties want a judge or jury to decide which party’s interpretation of events is correct. Therefore, each side presents evidence, and sometimes they summon witnesses. The lawyer representing the party that summoned the witness asks him or her questions, hoping that the answers the… 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 »