Monthly Archives: October 2020
Don’t Quit Your Job and Sell Your House Until You Are Sure the Court Will Allow You to Relocate
Second marriages are both easier and more difficult than first marriages. First, there is the statistic that people who have been divorced before are more likely to get divorced again, but statistics can’t predict your future. On the one hand, people who are married to their second spouse are more mature and have learned… Read More »
Is Your House Marital Property If Your Spouse Bought It While You Were Engaged?
In order for a divorce court to make an equitable distribution of a couple’s property (equitable means “fair”), it must first determine which assets are marital property and which are separate property. Only the marital property gets divided, but the court looks at factors like earning potential and separate property when deciding whether and… Read More »
The Court Has the Final Say About Whether Your Alimony Agreement Is Fair
Some couples spend years in court arguing about alimony, while others decide about it long before they divorce, or even before they marry. If you and your spouse agreed in a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement about how much one of you will pay the other in alimony in the event of your divorce, then… Read More »
The Purpose of Alimony Is Not to Compensate You for the Pain of Divorce
Anyone who has been through a divorce can tell you that it was one of the most painful things they have ever experienced. Having to disentangle yourself from something you thought would be permanent is never easy, even if you and your ex did not part as enemies and do not have minor children… Read More »