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...
Divorce is challenging for any family. It often brings up questions about how children will be cared for. When a child is adopted, the situation can feel even more sensitive. You may wonder how the law views adopted children and whether the process will be different...
Dividing the marital estate during a divorce generally means that people experience a reduction in their personal holdings. Those who have saved for retirement may need to split those assets in addition to their other personal holdings. Many working professionals have...
It can feel like a second heartbreak for gray divorcees when their grown children take sides. You may have expected the conflict to stay between you and your spouse. Instead, a family divide begins to form. One child might pull away, while another seems to echo the...
Welcoming a new child should be a cause for celebration, but unresolved issues can sometimes cloud what should be a happy occasion. Paternity testing is sometimes looked upon negatively, especially if it’s used in a way that disparages the mother. The truth is that...
Parents preparing for divorce often worry about their future relationship with their children. Sometimes, children take sides when their parents divorce. Particularly when they are older, they may have opinions about who they blame for the changes to the family unit....
