Divorce lawyers have to work with people from all walks of life. Sometimes this puts lawyers at risk. A lawyer in Indiana narrowly missed getting tangled in a murder plot thanks to the watchful eye of her husband.
According to the police, a mother and her son had planned to kill a divorce lawyer…
A classic scene from old movies is the private investigator hired to see whether or not a spouse is cheating or not. These days, we carry around our own private investigator in the form of smart phones and social media. According to a survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 97% o…
The pain experienced after a divorce can be quite traumatic. The help of a counselor, a psychologist, or a trusted friend can be essential to moving past all the negativity. Another way to get help is to read books on the subject of surviving divorce, but the divorce book market has many titles, …
You may remember the post we had about the Hague agreement and how Idaho may stop that treaty in its tracks. The agreement was to standardize how child support was handled for people in foreign countries. Critics were afraid that people in foreign countries might override the rights of Idahoans.
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The “taxi king” of New York has been ordered to pay $25,000 a month in child support and must undergo drug testing if he wishes to visit his daughter, a court ruled recently. The man is called the taxi king because he owns more taxi medallions than anyone else in the city.
He has been estranged …
A California software consultant has taken an unusual step to fight his alimony (spousal maintenance) payments. He has written an initiative to end alimony altogether in the State of California, and has received permission from the Secretary of State to start gathering signatures per California l…
Divorce can happen to anyone. Sometimes it can be seen from a mile away. Other times, it’s unexpected. The best thing that anyone can do after a divorce is learn what they can from it and move on. One extraordinary woman says that her second divorce taught her some of the most important lessons o…
Earlier in the week, we wrote about a UK study that showed that social media was a growing cause for marital strife and divorces. Now a woman in Chicago is saying that Facebook ruined her marriage, and she’s not the only one.
She told a local news station that she was a Facebook addict and that …
Social media has added an entirely different spin on divorce proceedings. Social media can reveal a lot of information that a partner doesn’t want revealed. Worse, many of the entries are public. Spouses have caught their partners cheating through looking at Facebook histories.
In the UK, a surv…
Currently, couples have the ability to marry regardless of biological sex in 36 states. The potential impact of a ruling by the Supreme Court would be to normalize the access to legal rights across all states.