It is often said that a divorce is 95% emotional and only 5% legal. A divorce is a life crisis, with intense emotional reactions, such as anger, fear, guilt, and despair. In the midst of this emotional soup, you must make huge decisions regarding your finances and...
You’ve heard the horror stories about people who spend their retirement and college funds getting divorced. And you don’t want to be that person. But maybe you haven’t heard the other kind of horror story: the people who, out of fear, refuse to get essential...
Federal Social Security benefits are very important to individuals and to those who have paid into the Social Security system, and by extension to their family members. When spouses divorce it is critical to understand the underlying rules and assumptions for the...
Many people recognize that if they “lawyer up” by hiring the most litigious attorneys that they are asking to have a very expensive adversarial divorce. Saving money is one of the reasons (but hopefully not the only reason) people often choose to do a collaborative...
Well. It’s done. The Collaborative paperwork is signed; the dissolution is complete. You can now safely say the words, “I’m divorced.” My guess is, this outcome is not exactly what you had in mind when you married your spouse all those years ago. The clinking of the...