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On divorce, your name, and how to change it
An often overlooked aspect of divorce, you may have taken the last name of your husband or wife when you got married. If this happened, when you divorce you may want to switch your name back. The original name change may have been a complex matter to begin with. So many documents and forms… Read More »
Talk to your significant other about a prenuptial agreement
One question that many couples may ask themselves before they walk down the aisle is “should I be considering a prenuptial agreement?” That thought may immediately be followed by the fear of bringing up such a supposedly controversial topic to your significant other in the months leading up to the happiest moment of your… Read More »
Debt has a huge role to play in divorce
If you and your spouse were to decide after a long discussion — preempted by months, if not years, of unhappiness — that you wanted a divorce, there would be a lot of issues that you would want to talk about. What is going to happen to the property you own? What will happen… Read More »
What to avoid and what to embrace during a divorce
When anyone goes through a divorce, they are going to have a lot of questions — not just about what they are at risk of and what is at stake in their divorce, but also about what exactly they should be doing, legally or otherwise, during the divorce. What behaviors should they avoid? What… Read More »
If you must use social media during divorce, follow these steps
At the beginning of December, we wrote a post about social media and divorce. Using sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram during a divorce is a tricky proposition. Even if you mean well in your posts and status updates, your words could be used out of context to support some legal action by your… Read More »
Why divorce is sometimes the solution and not the problem
Imagine that a married couple has been together for many years, but after a while, they don’t see eye to eye anymore. Those sustained periods of love and agreement have turned to sustained periods of uncomfortable inadequacy and a lack of communication. Sometimes, this happens. But when it becomes a consistent theme in your… Read More »
Business to offer couples wedding money if they stay married
Most of us have heard at some point that the divorce rate in the United States is currently around 50 percent. That number may actually be higher or lower, but the reality is that divorce is all too common. Businesses in the wedding industry certainly benefit from this fact. Interestingly, a Seattle company is… Read More »
Divorced couple tries to undo their divorce, fails
Continuing our legal separation theme from last week, today we have a story about a once-married, now-divorced couple in New Hampshire that was trying to undo their divorce. The couple was married in 1989, and for 24 years they stayed that way. But in 2014, they decided it was time to call it quits…. Read More »
How legal separation can help you decide on a divorce
In our last post, we talked about a report that showed the 25 cities in the United States where divorce had seen the largest increase since 1970. You can refer to that post by clicking here. While we don’t want to rehash what we talked about in that post, there is an important point… Read More »
Report details 25 cities where divorce has increased since 1970
A report was recently released regarding the 25 cities in the United States where divorce has been on the rise since 1970. Many populated areas grace the list, as well as a few cities you wouldn’t expect. What’s maybe the most interesting part of this report, though, is that even though Nevada had the… Read More »