Decide which assets to pursue in your divorce settlement
Divorce is an emotional event in a person’s life. Some people display their baser natures when going through a divorce. Especially if the divorce was unwanted or sprung on them out of the blue, spouses may attempt to retaliate via the divorce process. This is almost universally unwise, but perhaps not for the reasons you
Read MoreDivorce and the empty nest
Empty Nest Syndrome is when the last child leaves home and parents suddenly find that they are once again alone in the house. For many, it’s something they may not have experienced for 20 or 30 years. Parents with a house full of rowdy children may think it sounds great to have this empty nest
Read MoreHow are qualified retirement accounts transferred during divorce?
Adults who are going through a divorce will have a lot of factors to work through. One is how to divide the property. While it might be easy to decide what happens to smaller assets, larger ones can often be more challenging. One type of asset that can lead to significant problems is a retirement
Read MoreGet your groove back after your Texas divorce
Divorce has a way of taking the wind out of even the most resilient of people’s sails. When you pledged to love and honor your spouse until death, you meant those words sincerely. Later, when things changed irrevocably, you were brokenhearted over the failure of your marriage. That is, indeed, understandable, and you have every
Read MoreCommon law, same-sex marriages under Texas law
Long before the legality of same-sex marriages became the law of the land here in the United States, heterosexual and same-sex couples had been shacking up and sharing their lives just as if they had walked down the aisle together. At some point after same-sex marriage was legalized, many of these couples wed. As such,
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