Getting a divorce can take several months, even longer than a year, depending on your situation. During this challenging time, you need a divorce attorney well-versed in family legal matters to help you navigate the process. If you do not already have an attorney you...
Hiring a qualified attorney is no small undertaking when considering dissolution or divorce. The decisions you make during this stage will impact the rest of your life. Securing the best legal representation can be confusing if you do not know what qualities to look for...
Divorce is not easy, but it does not need to be brutal or treacherous. Here are ten steps you can take to prepare yourself.. Get Your Paperwork Together As any family law attorney will tell you, you will need to disclose all of your finances....
There are a few ways in which Ohio is different from neighboring states with regards to divorce. Some states are either no-fault or fault-based. In a no-fault state like Indiana, Kentucky, California, or Florida, a person wanting a divorce is not able to declare grounds...
Your divorce may be expensive. Chances are, though, that it will not be as pricey as these four particular splits. They are among the heftiest divorce settlements in U.S. history. Neil Diamond and Marcia Murphey – $150 million Diamond was quoted as saying “She deserves...
Josh Mandel, the former treasurer for the State of Ohio, is running in the Republican primary for Rob Portman’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat. A Republican judge, Ronald Forsthoefel, had sealed the records about Mandel’s divorce records. Mandel and his former spouse had filed for divorce in...
Divorce is never easy. Relationship experts debate the steps people take before separating. These experts do not always agree, but there are a few classic queries that most will acknowledge. Here are some of the questions that marriage therapists and couples’ counselors most commonly agree...
Second marriages are different in a multitude of ways. Goals have changed. Parenting conditions have often switched. The needs covered in estate documents have shifted. With a first marriage, usually the estate planning documents were simple in their directives. Take care of whichever spouse survives,...
Divorce rates continue to be high across the United States, and recent polls have shown that marital separation rates are increasing in 2020 due to coronavirus-related stresses. How many divorcees remarry? And, if and when they do, what does this mean for their estate planning?...
A great deal of press and chatter has been spent on the notion of baby booms after times of stress or crisis. For example, if a blackout takes out electricity in a major city for an extended period, newspapers will sometimes check to see if...
