To decide the division of marital property owned
by divorcing couples, and whether any property held by one of the parties should be included in the marital estate, the Court will consider several factors for the purpose of making an equitable distribution.
Extramarital affairs are up, prompting a huge rise in the use of private investigators
by divorcing couples to confirm fears that their other half was cheating on them, family lawyers report.
Child custody was once thought of as an issue dealt with only
by divorcing couples, but that is no longer the case.
Two kinds of alternative dispute resolution models, often used
by divorcing couples, include collaborative divorce and divorce mediation.
Collaborative Divorce offers a safe, respectful, and private process for shared decision - making
by divorcing couples.
Accordingly, the parties in a mediation - which is ordinarily attended
by the divorcing couple without their attorneys - often need coaching from their respective lawyers between mediation sessions.
Divorce by default is also a procedure employed
by divorcing couples who agree on all terms of their separation and find this the easiest route to take.
A common method used
by divorcing couples is mediation, which may be court - ordered or voluntary.
In divorce cases that were filed prior to October 1, 2006, a court has limited authority over a home owned
by a divorcing couple that is used as their primary residence.
I now specialize, as a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA), in the financial issues faced
by divorcing couples.
Mediated agreements bargained for
by a divorcing couple or other separated parents are less likely to result in future impasses leading to litigation.
Collaborative divorce should be considered
by every divorcing couple.
Created
by a divorced couple looking for a better way to communicate and exchange information about their kids, Our Family Wizard provides visitation and child custody schedules, calendars, parenting plans, and other co-parenting tools.
Stephen is the creator of the «Children's Checkbook» an innovative method of child support sharing that has been embraced
by divorcing couples and that many professional mediators, including Lori herself, now successfully use in their own mediation practices.
No court appearance
by the divorcing couple is necessary.
Through their therapeutic background, Family Professionals recognize the strong emotions experienced
by divorcing couples that can often get in the way of effective collaboration on the legal and parenting issues.
Not exact matches
According to research
by Jeffrey Dew, a faculty fellow with the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project,
couples who fight about finances once a week are 30 % more likely to
divorce than those who disagree on the topic a few times per month.
By 2006, the
couple had
divorced.
I'm also quite capable of debating with him about whether or not government marriage in New York should allow no - fault
divorce or whether married
couples (as defined
by the state!)
Divorce is decided
by the law, not the Church, although a
couple who's marriage is in distress will be urged to get counseling and try to save the marriage.
A proposal has recently been made to have engaged
couples commit to mechanisms that would impose penalties or delay on
divorce — a way of discouraging
divorce by making it a costly and less impulsive procedure.
In my own pastoral counseling experiences, I have found that most
divorcing couples are realistic enough not to want superficial, cheap attempts on the counselor's part to heal their wounds lightly
by telling them, in effect, that their
divorce and their prior marriage are unimportant.
1) same gender
couples being legally covered
by their spouses benefits i.e. insurance coverage 2) them having to endure
divorce proceedings like the rest of us?
If we add to this the sexual activity of young men of the same age, of gay men and lesbian women at a later stage of life, and that of unmarried and
divorced heterosexual
couples, it becomes clear that the sexual practice of people in our society is quite different from that held to be normative
by the traditional teaching of the churches.
The overwhelming majority reject and ignore Humanae Vitae, and most Catholics in the UK and the rest of Europe, and the US are also known (from research evidence) to disagree that sexual relations before marriage, [
by] masturbation, after
divorce, or between same sex
couples are morally wrong».
Consider that
divorced and remarried
couples do not, trembling, ask God for forgiveness every time they make love or kiss their spouse, even though some would accuse them of «living in sin»
by entering into an «adulterous» union.
The average age of
couples when they
divorce is 30 years old, but a 2015 study
by the University of Utah states that after the age of 32 the likelihood of
divorce goes up 5 percent per year.
One can not overlook in this regard the much discussed Footnote 351, which many — including the Bishops of Argentina — have cited to support the reception of communion
by divorced and remarried
couples who have not accepted sexual continence.
Black makes some essential distinctions: childless marriages being terminated
by young
couples are different from long - term marriages in which one spouse has been a homemaker, and both are different from
divorces in which minor children are present.
Winner does a masterful job of providing images and stories with which to understand «the middle» — a face jug lost in the
divorce, a pie social at church, a protest at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, an elderly
couple sharing communion, a Purim celebration, a prayer, a poem, a bookstore in Machester -
by - the - Sea.
So I'm heartened
by that as well as the rise in
couples seeking mediation or collaborative
divorce, and more dads sharing joint custody.
You said: My comment above on FB was prompted
by friends whose kid is SO entirely dependent on his parents to sleep at night, that he is depriving them of their
couple time and their desperately needed sleep, and as a result, they are constantly frustrated, at odds with each other, and left feeling helpless and misunderstood and «joke» about
divorce.
Which is why studies such as the latest
by the Institute for Family Studies, which touts the benefit of marriage over cohabitation when it comes to family instability, bother me: there's no way to know if the
couples who cohabit would end up
divorced if they wed or if their kids would be worse off if they stayed together — and perhaps subjected their kids to abuse, conflict, addiction or other dysfunctions.
Judges have sometimes made it happen, but nowadays, with more
couples interested in a kinder, gentler way of
divorcing (even if not quite conscious uncoupling), evidenced
by the rise of the
divorce selfie, some
couples are choosing it themselves.
Ressa:
Couples can always DIY; most
divorces are resolved
by litigants who are self - represented.
• High take up of parental leave
by Swedish fathers is linked to lower rates of separation /
divorce, as is more equitable sharing
by a
couple of earning and caring roles.
help reduce the conflict in
divorce by allowing
couples to create their own ideas of fairness when they still have each other's best interests at heart
With
divorce mediation, our goal is to create an environment that is more collaborative
by working together toward solutions to ensure
divorcing couples end up with an arrangement that works for them, their kids if applicable, and their budgets.
Collaborative
divorce is one method
by which
couples can navigate the
divorce process.
As Stephanie Coontz explains,
by the Middle Ages, the combination of the
couple's economic interdependence and the Catholic Church's success in limiting
divorce had created the tradition of getting married to one person and staying that way until death do us part.
«Some
divorced people continue to parent
by themselves and end up doing what's called «parallel parenting,» where the
couple has two different schedules and rules.»
Separated, widowed,
divorced, single
by choice, and same sex
couples living apart, can Read More
The mediation process enables the
couple to reach a lasting agreement and avoids the polarization and hostility often caused
by the
divorce / separation.
The early leader in the state pro-marriage movement, Louisiana set off a national debate in August 1997
by enacting a law that permits «covenant marriages, «26 whereby
couples promise to stay married for life and renounce their legal right to a no - fault
divorce.
Ministers are now under pressure from the legal profession and its law reform advisory body, the Law Commission, to legislate to give full legal force to pre-nup deals
by which
couples agree how to divide their property when they
divorce even before the wedding.
This seems like a hypothesis that can be demonstrated
by interviewing a representative sample set of
divorced couples to find out how long they were separated /
divorced before they met their future spouse.
For unmarried parents involved in a custody dispute, options for the custody decision are largely the same as those for
divorcing couples — child custody and visitation will be resolved either through agreement between the child's parents, or
by a family court judge's decision.
New York has officially become the last state in the nation to adopt no - fault
divorce following the governor's signature of a measure that will permit
couples to separate
by mutual consent, signaling a major policy shift that has far - reaching implications for both families and attorneys.
Far from the narrative that emerged later during their tabloid - fodder separation, that the split was fueled
by infidelity, Shnayerson's report says that the
couple had little in common and knew it early on — they were talking openly about
divorce as early as 1997, shortly after the birth of their third child, Michaela.
Although Gulliver isn't sure how to explain the gender differences, she does see resiliency as a buffer against the kind of life stress caused
by a dangerous job, the kind of stress that can lead some
couples to
divorce.