Missouri Divorce & Family Law Blog

Certified Divorce Financial Analysts™ offer their best tips to help you avoid some of the most common mistakes made by divorcing people.Edited by Diana Shepherd, CDFA Understand your financial and emotional limits. When you understand yourself,… Read More

Editor: John W. Dennis, Jr. , Esquire Remand is necessary for the trial court to enter the statutorily appropriate nomenclature in describing the type of custody being awarded to the parents in this matter. Shane M. Granger, Respondent v. Tina M. Gra… Read More

Wife Concedes Ambiguous Term In Agreement; Prevails On Appeal Separation agreement provided non-modifiable maintenance to Wife, and Circuit Court found no basis for modification, so it had no power to modify maintenance. Husband’s points, all r… Read More

Recently from the Georgia Family Law Blog WHAT IS PATERNITY? Paternity means fatherhood, the quality or state of being a father. WHAT IS A PATERNITY TEST? A Paternity Test is a DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) or genetic test that determines whether a giv… Read More

NEW YORK (AP) — By the numbers, divorce just isn’t what it used to be. Despite the common notion that America remains plagued by a divorce epidemic, the national per capita divorce rate has declined steadily since its peak in 1981 and is… Read More

Divorce & Social Security Benefits Thanks to the Oklahoma Family Law Blog for the following recent post regarding divorce and social security benefits: If you are divorced after at least 10 years of marriage, you can collect retirement benefits o… Read More

Just over two years ago, President George W. Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005, which became effective Oct. 17, 2005. If you are getting divorced, this new bankruptcy law could concern you. Reaso… Read More

Child-rearing is often a sensitive and complicated issue for couples, and many argue about just how to properly raise their young. But for children, major parental disagreement is a source of mixed messages and confusion that may undermine the attitu… Read More