Category Archives: Divorce
Selling The Marital Home After Divorce Is As Unpleasant As It Sounds
Listing your house for sale and preparing to move out is stressful no matter the circumstances, even if you are doing it so that you can move on to a happy new chapter of your life, such as a spacious house where each of your children can have his or her own bedroom, or… Read More »
Which Financial Transactions Are Off-Limits While Your Divorce Case Is Pending?
Divorce can be an escape from a marriage plagued by conflicts about money. Unfortunately, things sometimes get worse before they get better. In the simpler cases, you can resolve the problem through a few frank discussions with your divorce lawyer, followed by mediation sessions where your lawyer negotiates with your spouse’s lawyer, since it… Read More »
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 »
Does The Court Order Alimony If Both Spouses Are Broke?
The Alabama courts may award alimony when this is necessary to enable both spouses to continue to live at the same standard as they lived during the marriage. Often, it takes the form of rehabilitative alimony, which lasts five years or less, and the purpose of which is to enable the recipient spouse to… Read More »
Why It Is Worthwhile To Finalize Your Divorce In Mediation
When you summon the courage to file for divorce, you might go into it with the mindset that you are ready to fight to win. You imagine the judge awarding you possession of the marital home and paying your ex a lump sum for the refinance, so that you never half to think about… Read More »
How To Avoid Oversharing Your Divorce
One of the best things about living in Alabama is that everyone seems to have the gift of gab. If you strike up a conversation with the person in front of you in line at the supermarket every time you go shopping, by the end of a month you will have found out which… Read More »
How Does Pregnancy Affect Your Alabama Divorce?
One might expect that welcoming a child into the world together is when couples feel the greatest commitment to each other, but things do not work out this way for every couple. Taking care of a baby is a new level of stress and responsibility that causes conflict even among couples who are emotionally… Read More »
Rented Apartments And Divorce
Some people’s main source of stress relates to the marital home after divorce. It makes their blood boil that their ex got to keep the house they renovated with the work of their own hands. Someone out there is stressing about whether she will qualify for a refinance, even if her mother agrees to… Read More »
Can Your Ex-Spouse Disqualify Your Divorce Lawyer?
When you file for divorce, your ex-spouse might try to disrupt aspects of your life that you take for granted, just to mess with you. For example, provided that you have not changed the locks, your ex might come to your house when you are not home and remove furniture that you did not… Read More »