Category Archives: Divorce
Are Insurance Payouts a Marital or Nonmarital Asset?
One of the most difficult hurdles to clear early in the divorce process is that almost all the assets you acquired during your marriage are marital property. In your marital settlement agreement, you can decide that you keep certain assets and your spouse keeps others, but if that would leave one spouse financially dependent… Read More »
Can You Stop a Divorce Case Once It Starts?
You and your spouse hurt each other and got on each other’s nerves for years, and then one day it all boiled over. After one big fight or one too many broken promises, you called a divorce lawyer and said everything that was on your mind. Once you got started, it was easy to… Read More »
What Is the Difference Between Divorce Lawyers and Mediators?
Financial hardship in marriage is plenty stressful, but financial hardship during and immediately after divorce is much worse. Your goal is to avoid unnecessary delays and unnecessary expenses so that you can finalize your divorce and rebuild your life, financially and otherwise. When the spouses have vastly unequal incomes, then the higher income spouse… Read More »
Discovery in Florida Divorce Cases
In order to get divorced, you must file a divorce petition, and your spouse should respond to it. You must attend divorce mediation. Your case probably will not go to trial, but if it does, then this will only happen after mediation. By the time your divorce is final, you will have a marital… Read More »
Country Club Memberships: Yet Another Hassle of High Net Worth Divorce
Your jealous friends might call it a first world problem, but being a member of a country club is a hassle. Sure, it is nice to have a place to host your daughter’s wedding to take guests to dinner when they visit from out of town, but country club dues are so expensive that… Read More »
Is The Money You Earn While Your Divorce Case Is Pending Marital Property?
Figuring out what will happen to your finances after you get divorced is enough of a challenge. Most couples are able to accomplish this during mediation, but only through the help and expertise of their divorce lawyers. If your divorce is contentious enough that it goes to trial, then the judge might have to… Read More »
Best Summer Projects For People Who Are Considering Divorce
Divorce Monday, the first business Monday of the year, when the courts receive more divorce petitions than they get on any other day, is still more than half a year away, but most people who file for divorce on that day have been preparing for it for months. The instances where one spouse is… Read More »
Kindness, The Missing Ingredient In Your Divorce
No one wants an ugly divorce, but even if you are wealthy enough that the top Google results for all the divorce-related questions you Google include the words “high net worth divorce,” you do not inhabit the celebrity stratosphere where Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin ended their marriage with a “conscious uncoupling” or where… Read More »
Assembling Your Divorce Team
Being in an unhappy marriage can be lonely, but it has nothing on how lost and alone you feel when you are going through a divorce. You have to relearn how to do all the things for which you had developed a system, from home maintenance to filing taxes to navigating holidays with your… Read More »
The Family Law Court Recognizes The Invisible Labor Of Wives, But Not Of Girlfriends
You have a legal right to sue anyone whose negligence or intentional actions caused you to suffer financial losses, but the burden of proof is on you as a plaintiff to show that it was the other party’s responsibility to prevent those financial losses. If it is a breach of contract dispute, you must… Read More »
