A divorced dad once told me how he thought about child support. “My ex-wife committed the crime of taking my child away from me, and now I have to pay her for it.” I get it. That is how it feels to a non-custodial parent who never wanted the spouse and child to stop living […]
I know a lot of people who thought their divorce hearing date would be Independence Day. Some were wrong. Some were right. They were at last free to go their separate ways, with assets and debts disentangled and divided. Actually, they could have been free in that respect months earlier if they had worked with
Child Support: This list can be a planning tool for separated or divorced parents to use to help figure out how much money needs to be transferred from one parent to the other so that the children will be well provided for in both homes. . Spousal Support: The list can also be used to figure out how much
For more fun, start with the “Test Your Marital IQ” quiz in the June 21, 2015 blog post on this site. Here are the questions (without the multiple choice answers). 1. Which was the LEAST traditional form of marriage in history? 2. What was the most important function of marriage from Paleolithic times to the Early Modern
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My daughter inspired this article. Her father and I separated when she was just 2 1/2 years old. She cannot remember a time when her family was just one family in one house. When she graduated from college, she wanted to have a party at which everyone she cared about could celebrate with her.
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When two spouses start battling each other in divorce court, fear, anxiety, anger, and costs all tend to escalate. It can be very hard for them to rethink their approach to divorce, de-escalate tensions, and take up constructive problem-solving in mediation. Some divorce lawyers will not help their clients do that. They choose to be
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Heroic Dads That stereotype about African American men leaving single moms with all the work and little child support is contradicted by a number of dads I have worked with. They have been fighting to be allowed to be full-fledged parents, keeping their babies half of each week, supervising older kids’ homework, taking care of
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by guest author Larry Gaughan In Court, “discovery” is the way lawyers formally require parties to provide information and documents. In divorce cases discovery can be a wasteful and frustrating process. At times it does not succeed in producing all of the information needed. Despite these problems, when a case is to be litigated
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I want to thank my colleague Ellice Halpern for writing about The Guide to Low-Cost Divorce in Virginia on her Little Falls Mediation website. While my focus is solely on family mediation, Ellice offers mediation services for a wide variety of other disputes. Mediation is a private, confidential process for resolving disputes outside of court. Business • disagreements
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On her 11th anniversary, my friend Rebecca Geller shared the comments below on Facebook. There are clues here about how some marriages succeed, so I asked for permission to post what she shared. Rebecca said yes. Eleven years ago today we walked down the aisle and said “I do”. We were young, in love, and
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