An article titled, “Breaking up is hard to do because of the economy,” describes how many couples although wanting to file for divorce are stuck in their marriages because of financial woe’s. The article describes a couple who made the decision to end their marriage in the fall of 2008,…
A new North Dakota bill is getting a lot of attention in the North Dakota legislature, as it is proposing mandatory marriage counseling in all divorce cases. The drafters of the bill want all married couples, with the exemption of cases with substantiated allegations of domestic abuse, to wait one…
Florida has adopted what is known as Equitable Distribution. Under the Equitable Distribution scheme, marital property is fairly (equitably) divided between the parties of a divorce. The current Fla. Statutes require a court to begin the process of dividing assets and liabilities by setting aside those assets that are defined…