Archives: Divorce

Occasionally, someone abuses the legal system by filing numerous motions, affidavits and other pleadings

A film I won’t be seeing anytime soon is a new documentary called “Divorce Corp,” billed as an “expose” on the divorce “industry.”

The skill in lawyering is knowing when to be aggressive – and when not to be.

It appears this documentary takes a few outrageous examples and extrapolates to those being the rule rather than the exception. It may make good hype for the news media, but it is poor logic and not reality.

My friend Sandy Swartzberg and I thought it might be interesting to co-write an article on the business divorce.

A contempt finding against the husband in a divorce case who quit his job and stopped making all court-ordered payments.

Valuing a marital estate and determining property division and spousal support in a divorce requires extra care when one of the spouses owns a business. Extra care is needed to protect the livelihood of the business owner and to ensure the non-business-owning spouse receives a fair share.

Excellent suggestions on how to survive the holidays if you are going through a divorce.

The tricky issue of where parents can live with their children before a divorce is granted.

Watching others survive the process is therefore a catalyst for certain other people contemplating it to pull the trigger.