It sounds like you are at the beginning stages of determining whether or not your marriage is worth salvaging, or if it is better for you to move on. You are correct in that the most important issue to your children and to you is your safety, both physically and financially. In order to prepare […]
For most registered domestic partnerships, the Family Court has exclusive jurisdiction over proceedings relating to the dissolution of the partnership. The procedures are equivalent to those involving married persons. Thus, all rights and obligations that attach in marital status proceedings will apply to domestic partnership status proceedings, including equal division of community property, debt liability, […]
Question: “I’ve been looking at Divorce/Separation websites but haven’t been able to come up with any information on joint child custody/division of assets. I’m attempting to prepare my two children and myself in the event that this becomes necessary. My husband will not see a marriage counselor, and he’s verbally abusive toward the children and […]
Question: “I’m 37 years old and have been married for 11 years. We have a two-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter. When my daughter was born, my husband and I decided that he would quit his job, which he hated, and I would support the family, while he went back to school to earn his […]
It’s best that you set your goals and use your lawyer to develop a long-term strategy to achieve them. Often, it’s difficult to determine your goals in the beginning because you don’t have enough information to know what goals are possible, given your unique facts and circumstances. It’s the lawyer’s job to add clarity to […]
Now that you are legally divorced, you are in a new stage of your life, and it is very important to do new estate planning to protect your loved ones. Any estate planning you may have already done is now revoked in whole or in part due to the divorce. Just a few critical reasons […]
