Monthly Archives: October 2024
Does The Duration Of Your Marriage Affect Equitable Distribution?
If you go to a consultation with a divorce lawyer after receiving a surprising divorce petition from your spouse and anxiously asking the lawyer whether your ex will keep half of your marital property, it is hardly comforting if the lawyer says, “it depends,” but it is the truth. Alabama is an equitable distribution… Read More »
And Now Some Optimism About Your Finances After Divorce
Here is an exercise in Southern charm for you. Try to find something nice to say about how divorce has affected your finances. Remember that joke about the Southern Belle who bragged that her Daddy sent her to charm school so she could say, “That’s nice” instead of a string of expletives? If you… Read More »
Restoring Your Parenting Time After A Long Absence
Alabama’s laws on parenting time, which state that the children’s best interests are the main concern in parenting plan decisions, imply that children thrive on routine and stability. When judges set parenting plans, which they only do when the parents cannot reach an agreement during mediation, they choose a schedule that disrupts the children’s… Read More »
Does Health Insurance Coverage Count As Alimony?
One of the marriage trends the younger generation is embracing is the prenuptial agreement. It used to be that people only signed prenups if they were wealthy or if one or both parties had children from a previous marriage. These days, an increasing number of couples realize that prenups are an effective way to… Read More »