Do I Have to Pay Alimony? Understanding Spousal Support

Financial incompatibility is one of the top reasons couples find themselves considering divorce. This incompatibility doesn’t mean the couple is fighting about a lack of money. Instead, they have different approaches to spending money. Those approaches can feel impossible to reconcile. That’s when divorce becomes an option. But that doesn’t mean that every couple who thinks about…

How to Bring Up Divorce With Your Spouse Responsibly

Wanting a divorce from your spouse doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. If anything, divorce is becoming more common. Even though 90% of couples marry before age 50, between 40 and 50% of couples end up divorced. Approaching the idea of divorce isn’t easy. To ensure the process runs smoothly, it’s best to mention the…

Parental Alienation Syndrome: What It Is and How to Identify It

  Approximately 50% of children in America will witness their parents’ marriage break up.  And divorce has the second biggest impact on long-term stress. The only thing more stressful is the death of a loved one.  That’s a lot of children experiencing high levels of stress.  Unfortunately, 11-15% of children also experience Parental Alienation Syndrome during their parents’…

Your Guide to Understanding Legal Separation vs Divorce

You walk down the aisle with dreams of you and your new spouse laughing together in slow motion behind a white picket fence. Then life happens. No one gets married expecting to get a divorce, but circumstances change and people change. If you’re at a point when your marital relationship is over, the next step…

Top Tips for Winning a Child Custody Battle

Are you about to enter a custody battle? If so, read on to learn about the top tips for winning a child custody battle. Every year, more than 800,000 divorces take place in the United States, and many of these divorces involve some kind of battle over which parent will have custody over the children.…

Adopting a Child: What You Need to Know

Are you thinking about adopting a child? If so, read on to learn what you need to know about adopting a child. The population of the Earth is rapidly expanding. Early models of prediction trace the human population growth to the size of some 9.8 billion by the year 2050. This wide-spread growth is causing…

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Father’s Rights

Fathers have a lot of rights that many people don’t know about. Read on to learn what you don’t know about fathers’ rights. There are more than five million domestic disputes that hit the courts every year; yet of these, only 14% of the parents granted custody of their children are fathers. Fathers have certain…

How to Divide Property in a Divorce

Divorce is complicated enough, and when property is involved, things can get even more complicated. 40-50% of couples in the United States get divorced, making the issue of how to divide property a common one. Since most married couples purchase property together, it can be hard to determine who owns what. Understanding marital property laws…