There are two basic ways to get divorced: with an agreement, or in court. These days, most people get divorced with a separation agreement, because it’s cheaper, easier, and much less adversarial. What’s a separation agreement? A separation agreement is a legal contract that divides all the assets, liabilities, and responsibilities in a marriage between...
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Things aren’t working and you can’t take it anymore. You know you need to make a change. The question is, though… Where do you start? You can start in a lot of different places, so I’m going to give you a brief overview of your options. I hope you’ll use it as a guide to...
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, they tell me how sad or depressing that must be. I’m always surprised, even though by now I probably shouldn’t be. While it’s sad to think about a happy marriage ending, those aren’t the kinds of marriages I see. I see marriages where women are...
Don’t wait too long to make a positive change in your life. You know you’re unhappy in your marriage, and you’ve begun to think about divorce. You’ve probably consulted with a therapist of your own or even a marriage counselor, and your differences have grown and grown over the years. Now, even the simplest things...
When it comes to military retirement, there are a lot of misconceptions. Some of it, I think, it propagated by the husbands themselves, who want their wives to think that they are entitled to nothing, or else way less than what they are actually entitled to receive. Some of it happens because the military doesn’t...
Access to legal representation is becoming an increasingly important problem, especially for poorer women and minority groups. A recent article published on NPR’s website asserts, unsurprisingly, that people with representation do better. And it also stands to reason that, if women and minorities have a disproportionately more difficult time obtaining legal representation, they are also...
The best thing you can do, early on in your divorce, is begin to plan for the kind of divorce you think you want to have. A lot of the choices you make in the beginning set you up for the way things are going to move forward later, and you’ll want to do some...
Sometimes, in family law cases, we have to use a private investigator to get the information we need to prove something involved in the case. In many of these cases, we’re trying to prove adultery. In other cases, sometimes we need evidence that relates to child custody, like what one parent is doing during the...