Monthly Archives: September 2025
Co-Parenting Litigation Is Expensive, So Choose Your Battles
There once was a Florida woman who asked the trial court to order her ex-husband to pay over $100,000 in attorneys’ fees. The former spouses had been battling in court for years, since they first filed for divorce, and the wife’s lawyers alone had put enough work into representing her in the case to… Read More »
How Can You Be Sure That Your Ex-Spouse Is Using the Child Support Money in the Children’s Best Interest?
If you are not divorced and do not have children, you might wonder how people who love their children as much as they say they do are so angry about the fact that they have to pay child support. Yes, somewhere there are exes who were never married and don’t have a parenting plan…. Read More »
What If Your Marital Settlement Agreement Conflicts With Your Prenup?
Only an indefatigable optimist will tell you that prenuptial agreements prevent divorce, but anyone can see that they are effective at making divorce cases less messy. Yes, there are cases where couples in the process of divorce disagree about the interpretation, but they are the exception to the rule. For example, somewhere in South… Read More »
What Happens If Your Spouse Has a Child With an Affair Partner?
For every divorced couple, there is a couple that stayed married after confronting a similar obstacle to the one that caused the divorce couple to divorce. Disagreements over parenting are, by nature, self-limiting problems; children eventually age out of the issue over which the parents were at loggerheads. At your child’s graduation, ask whether… Read More »
Your Ex-Spouse’s Parenting Time Can Bring Out the Best in You
Being a parent is a 24/7 job. You are always on duty, even when you are asleep. You are responsible for every bill, every meal and snack, every diaper or bathroom trip, every bath, every school drop off and pick up, and every doctor’s appointment. Somehow, you remember the names of all your children’s… Read More »
What Should You Do If Your Ex-Spouse Lies to You About Your Kids?
No matter how angry your ex-spouse’s behavior makes you, it is exponentially worse when that behavior is directed toward your children. You are used to your ex blowing up at you for no reason, before and after your divorce, but when she loses her temper at your children because of something trivial, it is… Read More »
Can a Prenuptial Agreement Help You Avoid Repeating the Mistakes of Your First Marriage?
The statistic that says that 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce does not tell the whole story. If it is your first marriage, then the chances of divorce are less than 50 percent. If you were previously married to someone else, though, the chances are greater than 50 percent that your current… Read More »
Things to Consider When Filing Taxes After Your Divorce
Divorce teaches you a lot of things you never thought about before. You must depend on yourself for responsibilities that always fell to your spouse when you were married. There are people out there who first learned to drive after they got divorced, and some for whom divorce served as a motivation to learn… Read More »
Can You Have an Amicable Divorce After a Long Marriage?
It seems like the world has changed since you were young. Instead of thinking about how old that makes you, think about the good old days and how little they differed today. Today, social media is where people go to show their worst side. Everywhere you click, there are people reacting to videos of… Read More »
Taking the Long View About Your Finances After Divorce
At first, struggling financially with your spouse brought you closer. You enjoyed your ramen noodle date nights at home, watching YouTube videos interrupted every few minutes with noisy ads, but in time, the constant stress of living paycheck to paycheck pushed you apart. Now that you are going through a divorce, it is clear… Read More »