Five Things to Know About Divorce and Taxes
The holidays are over, and the next season is upon us…tax season. Separating your financial life because of divorce is challenging and often complex. It is especially difficult to deal with the financial aspects, including tax filing. Avoiding tax traps and other...
How Does Divorce Affect Your Debts?
We all recognize that divorce is challenging for a host of reasons. Divorce isn’t just emotionally costly. With the requirement to divide your estate in a fair way, we concentrate on the division of both your assets and debts – that can be financially expensive! I...
Sole and Separate vs. Community Property
Most people want to join their lives when they get married and never gave a second thought to what belonged to whom on your wedding day. All the gifts you receive on your wedding day are intended for both of you and nobody thinks anything more about it. Most likely,...
Financial Mistakes to Avoid when Divorcing
No one gets married with the expectation of getting divorced someday. Regrettably, though, divorce rates are expected to continue climbing and it important to plan in advance if you can. Divorce affects all areas of your life, including your financial health, and can...
Equal Rights in Same Sex Marriage and Divorce
In 2014 Arizona legalized same-sex marriage and the nation followed in 2015. Before and since then, there has been a plethora of legislation passed to protect LBGTQ couples from discrimination seeking equal rights in both marriage and divorce. While a same-sex divorce...
Holiday Co-Parenting can be Frightful 👻
The holiday is season is here now, commencing with Halloween! A childhood favorite, this holiday may incite passionate arguments with co-parents who really wanted to trick or treat with their children or take them to their school or neighborhood Halloween party. Even...
What is a Collaborative Divorce?
The progressive and wholistic Collaborative Divorce Process can trace its start to the genius of a Minnesota attorney, Stu Webb in 1990. Since the initial inception of collaborative divorce at the end of the 20th century, the concept and practice has spread across the...
How to Survive a Divorce with Your Finances Intact
Divorce is often more crippling, both emotionally and financially than people realize at the onset. In fact, it may take years to see the full impact to you and your family and your estate. Because it is such a delicate time, often people “die on their sword” fighting...
Six Facts About “Gray Divorce” You Need to Understand
The divorce rate among people over the age of 50 has been increasing significantly. The divorce rate for people over 65 has spiked upward even more dramatically. Between 1990 to 2015, the divorce rate among people over the age 50 doubled, according to Pew Research...
Can child support be increased after the divorce is finalized?
Once you are divorced, we have found that people continue to have many major life changes for two to three years. It is very common to change homes, jobs, relationships and of course, all of that effects your financial life. In fact, all these events can mean that...
Designer Divorces: Can You Keep the Dirty Laundry Private?
You've read the tabloids...the salacious divorce details of the world's rich and famous. Yet, somehow other equally powerful people manage to dissolve their unions with virtually no disclosure to the public, and maintaining a modicum of a relationship. How is this...
COVID Impact on Courts, Attorneys, Family
It’s been about a year since the coronavirus pandemic affected every area of daily life and our Arizona court system was no exception. If you’ve been involved in any legal proceeding in the last 12 months, you have undoubtedly been impacted by significant changes and...
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