Category Archives: Divorce
Is It a Crime for Your Spouse to Mishandle Your Money?
Almost every couple disagrees about money during their marriage. If the marriage ends in divorce, most couples are able to reach an agreement about the division of their marital property through mediation, but sometimes the disagreements are so entrenched that a judge must decide at trial. For the most part, the judge only cares… Read More »
3 Divorce Lawyers to Dump and 3 to Hire Instead
If you are going through a divorce, you already have enough stress and drama in your life. Even if you and your spouse started the divorce process determined to keep things amicable, the long-unspoken resentments are starting to bubble to the surface. As much as it may have bugged you that your spouse undermined… Read More »
Lifestyle Choices After Gray Divorce: Retire Modestly or Return to the Workforce for a Second Career?
People over 50 account for the largest percentage of divorce cases filed in recent years. The media stereotype about gray divorce is that both spouses have separate incomes and can comfortably retire without each other, so once their children have grown up, they give up on trying to resolve their differences and instead go… Read More »
Can Being a Daddy’s Girl Affect Your Eligibility for Alimony?
In-laws are a major source of marital discord; they rank up there with jealousy and money-related disagreements as a source of conflict between spouses. Almost every aspect of your life becomes more stressful when one of your spouse’s parents insists on being a third wheel in your marriage. Things that are supposed to be… Read More »
Moving Out of Your Ex-Spouse’s House Can Be Such a Mess That the Courts Have to Get Involved
Moving into a new house is never easy. The best-case scenario is that everything is packed up by the time the movers arrive, and once you are in your new place, you know that all your stuff is there, even though you don’t have time to unpack it. Still having stuff in boxes more… Read More »
Does It Really Take Two to Divorce?
You might have heard people complain that they want to divorce, but their spouse refuses to go along with the process. Divorcing a stubborn spouse is no fun, but it is no worse than being married to a stubborn spouse. At least two reality TV stars from Florida have publicly commented that their estranged… Read More »
Simplified Dissolution and Uncontested Divorce in Florida
Most divorces do not go to trial. Meanwhile, most divorce cases involve lawyers, and the cases where the parties start out representing themselves without hiring lawyers are often the ugliest of all; they are at least as likely to go to trial as the cases where the parties worked with lawyers from the beginning. … Read More »
Does Divorce Affect Your Permanent Residency Status?
Here in South Florida, a substantial percentage of children and young adults have at least one parent born outside the United States; at least one parent is a naturalized U.S. citizen, and one parent might have gotten permanent residency status upon marrying the other parent. Despite stereotypes about opportunistic singles who just want to… Read More »
Concealing Marital Assets Can Cause Problems Well Beyond the Divorce Case
Gray divorce, in which the parties are above the age of 50, is becoming increasingly prevalent. In the early days of no-fault divorce, many divorces took place among couples who realized rather quickly that they were not cut out for marriage, but the ones who made it past the ten-year mark were in it… Read More »
Can the Divorce Court Enter a Default Judgment Even If You Have Children?
Most divorce cases do not involve the court ruling for one party and against the other. In fact, in most cases, the parties reach an agreement about property division and parenting time during mediation. When the case goes to trial and the judge must issue a decision about the points on which the parties… Read More »
