Category Archives: Divorce
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 »
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 »
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 »
Which Spouse Keeps The Family Home After Divorce
If deciding which spouse keeps the marital home is not one of the issues in your divorce, then the path to finalizing your divorce is much shorter. In some cases, one spouse owned the house before the couple married, so the only option is that he or she keeps the house even after the… Read More »
How Do Alimony And Child Support Affect Your Taxes?
Now that tax season is past again, people are even more stressed out than before about their finances. Now that you are happily single, you spent the first few months of the year feeling relieved that you do not have to ask your spouse’s permission every time you pay to stream a movie on… 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 »
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 »