Category Archives: Divorce
Divorce Goals Are Not One Size Fits All
Making you feel bad about yourself is the point of social media. You might see tabloid content about a celebrity’s adorable divorce, with pictures of recently divorced spouses celebrating their child’s birthday together or going on a double date with their new partners. Your coworkers and former classmates who are divorced might also make… Read More »
How Does Inherited Property Affect Your Divorce Case
When you are living paycheck to paycheck, inheriting money from a deceased relative sounds like a dream come true, since it will bring relief to at least some of your financial problems. In reality, it is less glamorous, and it often creates as many problems as it solves. Specifically, it might upset the routine… Read More »
Does Florida Have a Jolene Law?
In insurance claims and lawsuits arising from car accidents, the insurance companies or the court will always decide who is at fault for the accident. Sometimes one driver bears all of the fault, and in some cases, each driver bears a share of liability. The insurance company or court can even decide that some… Read More »
Comforting Thoughts to Help You Get Through the Holidays in the Midst of Divorce
With the possible exception of young children, the holidays are a bummer for everyone except people who lack the self-awareness to realize how bummed out they are. If you are single, you get all the Schadenfreude from your family about your loneliness, or else a guilt trip about how you are wrong not to… Read More »
Disputes Over the Marital Home and How to Resolve Them
Owning a house can be a source of financial stability, but it can also cause plenty of stress. The costs of maintaining a house never seem to end, and if your mortgage has a high interest rate and you did not place a large down payment, you risk having negative equity in your home… Read More »
If You Are Getting Divorced in Florida, You Are in Good Company
Divorce rates are lower than they were a generation ago. In 1990, there were 6.1 divorce cases for every 1,000 residents in the United States. This figure has several possible interpretations. There was a spike in divorce rates after most states introduced no fault divorce in the 1970s; couples that had been unhappily married… Read More »
Divorced Couple Disagrees on Whether They Need a Real Estate Agent to Sell Their Marital Home
If you and your spouse agree on when to invest your own labor in something and when to spend money paying someone else to do it, you have saved yourselves a lot of discord. For example, you might be willing to pay a cleaning service to clean your house every week, but your spouse… Read More »
Getting Through Your Divorce With Dignity After an Ill-Advised Business Decision
People divorce for many reasons, but financial stress plays a role in the breakdown of many marriages. In most cases, it is easy to see that it was unfair of your spouse to blame you for financial problems that, as almost anyone else can see, were outside your control. You stayed out of the… Read More »
Marital Debts Can Include Loans Owed to Your Former In-Laws
In-laws can be a source of marital stress; some divorced people cite conflict with their spouse’s family as a factor that led to their divorce. On the other hand, couples who stay together only cite the support of their extended families as a source of strength. If your children are at the age where… Read More »
Misconduct in Florida Divorce Cases
“Misconduct” is a vague term. It encompasses everything from annoying behavior that breaks rules set in place to minimize disruptions, such as when children talk out of turn in class or leave the classroom without permission, to violent crimes punishable by incarceration. Divorce rarely happens without something that could count as misconduct. The couples… Read More »