You may have a valuable family heirloom or a down payment gifted by your parents. These assets often feel sacred and untouchable. Yet, Indiana law sees all property owned by either spouse, before or during a marriage, as part of the marital estate. Indiana’s "one pot...
When couples divorce, retirement savings often make up one of the biggest financial issues in the case. Pensions, in particular, can be confusing because they promise a future monthly benefit rather than a clear account balance. To divide a pension fairly, you need to...
When many couples divorce, the tax consequences of their situation quietly influence their long-term financial stability. The choices spouses make during the divorce process—whether about filing status, support arrangements, property transfers or retirement...
What happens when parents can’t agree on custody in Indiana? For parents going through a divorce, working out a custody arrangement can be one of the most difficult parts of the entire process. Disagreements are commonplace, especially when both parents believe they...
Imagine discovering your spouse is wasting the assets you worked so hard to acquire during the marriage simply because divorce is imminent. You may feel confused, frustrated and even betrayed, especially if you've spent years building financial stability together....
If your spouse is a member of the military, you may start thinking that you want to get a divorce while they are deployed. In fact, you may already have been thinking about divorce prior to their deployment, but you decide to take that next step while the two of you...
Divorce is often seen as a painful and difficult process, and it is true that ending a marriage is almost always emotionally and physically hard. Yet for many women, divorce can also open the door to a new chapter of life, marked primarily by growth, greater...
Determining paternity is an important step for parents to take. For fathers, it helps to define their child custody rights so that they get to see their child, make important decisions on the child’s behalf, and much more. For mothers, it can help to divide child...
Marriage is a formal, legal commitment to spend a lifetime with a specific person. Divorce is the often complicated legal process through which people suffer that obligation. Plenty of people go through rough patches in their marriages, but not all couples recover...
The details of a custody order determine an individual's parental rights and responsibilities. Parents usually share parenting time, financial responsibility and decision-making authority even after their relationships end. Frequently, the terms of a custody order are...
