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A prenuptial agreement is meant to be fair to both parties. That’s why it’s crucial that each one has their own legal representative participate in drawing it up or at in reviewing it before it is signed. This can help ensure that if it’s ever needed, all or part of...
Increasingly, couples are choosing mediated divorces rather than litigated ones. Mediation can be a less expensive and less time-consuming option and a more private one since fewer documents are filed with the court and couples spend less – if any – time there....
You cannot deny child custody rights to your ex just because they will not pay child support. For example, maybe your ex, who has visitation rights, is a few months behind on their mandated support payments. When they show up for visitation, you may be tempted to tell...
After couples get married, they often take on significant amounts of shared debt. They may co-sign on a car loan together, for example, or open a shared credit card account. During divorce, these marital debts often have to be divided just like marital assets. Both...
One common issue couples face during a divorce is who gets to keep the house. Some couples will just sell their house and split the proceeds, naturally, but in other cases, one person wants to take over as the sole owner and keep the house. When they do this, there is...
Family courts generally try to ensure that children whose parents are no longer together continue to have both of them in their lives. Increasingly, however, states are amending their laws to help ensure that any history of parental abuse or neglect is fully...
There are numerous different ways for spouses to manage divorce proceedings. An increasing portion of divorcing couples now rely on mediation to resolve disputes they have regarding the terms of their divorces. Mediation requires working with a spouse instead of...
Mediation is a way for divorcing couples to resolve their disagreements without litigating their disputes in family court. Like arbitration, which is another form of alternative dispute resolution, mediation involves working with the neutral third-party professional...
If you and your spouse put a prenuptial agreement in place before you got married, you did something that more people need to do to protect their assets and financial interests should the marriage end in divorce. It’s important to remember, however, that a prenup...
There are many moving parts in a high-asset divorce that make the process more complex than the average divorce, generally speaking. Diverse streams of income, complex marital assets and higher standards of living can all become challenges when negotiating financial...