Divorce After A Long Separation
Gray divorce is becoming so common that soon it will just be called “divorce,” and we will have to think of a name for when young people dissolve their marriages. Natural hair color divorce? Star pimple cover sticker divorce? Shotgun wedding after party? Chances are, if you are getting a divorce these days, you are old enough to know what you want out of life and old enough to know that the world in which you and your spouse fell in love and got married does not exist anymore. Older people who have been married for a long time usually do not get divorced on a whim. In many cases, they have been living separately for a long time. Their separation may not have been a “conscious uncoupling,” as the celebrities used to say a decade ago, but rather a matter of settling into a pattern where they could coexist without constantly getting on each other’s nerves. Some people remain in this state indefinitely, agreeing to disagree on the irreconcilable issues, but otherwise treating each other as family and managing their finances as such. When the irreconcilable differences are financial ones, though, divorce usually ensues, but in some cases, it is just a case of making the status quo official. If you have been living separately from your spouse for years and are ready to move forward with your divorce, contact a Birmingham divorce lawyer.
A Social Butterfly and a Doomsday Prepper Can Love Each Other, but They Can’t Live Together
From 1976 until 1989, an electrical engineer and a teacher lived together in Alabama. The parties disagreed about finances from the beginning. The husband wished to avoid credit cards, but the wife spent carelessly, in the husband’s opinion, and she opened credit card accounts without his knowledge. The husband worked for the Alabama Power Company in the beginning of the marriage but eventually founded his own business, an air quality company. The next decade or so of the marriage was rife with conflict; the wife attributed it to the husband’s bad temper, and the husband attributed it to the wife’s overspending and dishonesty about money.
By 2002, the wife was living in the marital residence, while the husband lived in a camper on rural land he had purchased. He eventually built a house with a basement big enough to hold what the wife described to the court as “Armageddon amounts of food” and enough ammunition to deter anyone who might want to share the food. Their unspoken peace agreement held until the wife got injured and had to retire from teaching, leaving Social Security as her only income. Eventually, they divorced. The court awarded the spouses their respective residences and did not award alimony. Even though she could not make ends on her Social Security income, the wife refused to leave Birmingham, where her relatives and friends were.
Contact Peeples Law About Gray Divorce
A Birmingham family law attorney can help you finalize your divorce when you are old enough to know that money and health are finite resources. Contact Peeples Law in Birmingham, Alabama today to schedule a consultation.
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