Can You and Your Spouse Come to a Child Support Agreement without an Attorney? Technically, you can get through your entire divorce without hiring an attorney to help you with any of it. You and your spouse can draw up the paperwork, sign it, file [...]

Why You Should Consider Divorce Mediation as a First Step Divorce can seem like war. In fact, many books and movies have shown it exactly like that, even including the word “war” in the title. Most people getting a divorce seem like enemy combatants. Attempting [...]

Tax Laws and Divorce: What Your Divorce Could Mean for the 2020 Tax Season A divorce can turn your finances upside down. You suddenly go from having two incomes to support your household to only having one income. Yet your living expenses remain stable. If [...]

Why You Should Think Carefully before Filing for Divorce By the time you are thinking about divorce, you are probably done with the marriage. You have had it with the fighting and the lying and the money problems and all the rest of it. Also, [...]

Long Distance Parenting: Covering All Your Bases during Your Divorce Long Distance Parenting can become a real issue once a couple divorces.  Ideally, both parents would live in the same city as their children – or at least close enough that everyday visits are possible. [...]

Divorce can torpedo your life as you know it. You will no longer be married to the person you thought you were going to spend your life with, you may become a single parent, and you may even lose friends and relationships with in-laws to [...]

What to Do if You Change Your Mind while Signing Your Divorce Papers Divorce can be tricky. You may sign your divorce papers and then think better of the settlement to which you’ve agreed. You may decide you want more of the 401(k), or you [...]

Does Going through a Divorce affect Your Ability to Date? Some people can’t imagine dating again after the pain of going through a divorce. They are too emotionally exhausted to want to start again with someone new. Other people are ready to date almost as [...]

Dividing Your Household Goods during Your Divorce Right after you recover from the decision to get a divorce (or the announcement from your spouse), you have to start thinking of the practical matters. At the top of your head might be questions like, Who gets [...]

Divorce Guide: Listing Your Assets Everything that you or your spouse acquire during your marriage is community property, meaning that, by law, it belongs to both of you. It doesn’t matter who purchased it or with what money, and it doesn’t matter if you had [...]

The Unintended Consequences of a Divorce on Your Career Divorce can upend your life. It can change friendships and family relationships in ways you never expected, and it can change the way you feel about yourself. It can change the relationship your chidren have with [...]

Divorce Settlement Conferences and Why They Matter Most people have an image in their minds of a contentious divorce trial when they decide to end their marriage. They may think that they will have to get on the stand and detail everything that went wrong [...]

A Guide to Alimony: When Will I Start Receiving It? Alimony is one of the terms for financial support paid from one spouse to another after a divorce, which can be used interchangeably with spousal maintenance and spousal support. Contrary to some commonly held beliefs, [...]

5 Common Mistakes to Avoid during a Divorce It can feel like chaos in the weeks and months following a divorce. Even if you initiated the split, you may feel like you don’t know what to do now that you have to rebuild your life [...]

How to Help Your Child Cope with Divorce Divorce is hard on everyone, but it’s especially hard on kids. Big changes are happening around them, and they have no control over any of it. Plus, they will no longer be able to live with both [...]