Prenuptial Agreements are Not Just for the Wealthy Prenuptial agreements are not only for wealthy individuals. While a prenuptial agreement may not seem necessary or relevant to someone with average income and wealth or to a young bride or groom to be, anyone can benefit from having a prenuptial agreement in place prior to getting […]
A Woman’s Professional Success May Increase Chance of Divorce In Sweden, Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne, a political scientist from Uppsala Universaity and an economist from Stockholm University, found that there is a higher rate of divorce where women who were not working at the start of a marriage, or who earned less than their […]
A Gift with Strings Attached: How Courts Address Gifts between Spouses in Divorce Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain and singer Courtney Love, has recently been in the news for her divorce from singer Isaiah Silva. The divorce was very contentious and proceedings were pending for several years. The parties […]
You’re Not Megan Markle and He’s Not Prince Harry (or Vice Versa): Even Though They Did Not, You Should Think About a Pre-Nuptial Agreement And not to put too fine a point on it, but this is not the United Kingdom, either. Pre-nuptial agreements are still relatively new to the UK, only recently enforced by […]
Declaratory Judgments in Family Law There are many ways to bring an issue before the court in a family law matter. When seeking to have a contract validated or to determine a legal right, then filing a motion for a declaratory judgment is one of those options. The Declaratory Judgment Act states “Courts of record, […]
Putting your financial cards on the table in a divorce I recently came across an old news story from 2001 about a divorce in California in which a wife won the lottery for 1.3 million dollars and filed for divorce eleven days later. During the divorce process, she never disclosed her lottery winnings to her […]
What happens to the engagement ring? When it comes that time for a couple to begin the path towards marriage, the first step is the engagement ring. Depending on a person’s wealth, the ring can cost anywhere from a few months salary or less to the price of an entire house. Traditionally, an engagement ring […]
Treatment of Pets in Divorce: Family or Furniture? When a marriage ends, many people are confronted with the uncomfortable situation of deciding what to do with family pets. Even though many pet owners view their pet as a member of the family, animals are generally considered property under the law. As a result, judges can […]
Social Media Prenuptial Agreements In the age of technology, prenuptial agreements are evolving to address concerns surrounding social media use and what is posted and available for public consumption. The “social media prenup” is becoming more common as couples choose to address what obligations one spouse has to the other with regard to what is […]
Getting married can be one of the most exciting times in a person’s life. One component of wedding planning that is often overlooked is consideration of what will happen if the parties get divorced. People are rarely thinking about divorce as they are preparing to get married. The reality is, however, that over half of […]
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