As she failed under the title
of former spouse due to the consent order, her claim failed altogether.
A divorce often results in harsh financial consequences for
former spouses who once had two incomes to make ends meet, but now must contend with one.
The enormous costs are born
by former spouses, and their children, friends and families.
One of the hardest things about divorce litigation is that
former spouses don't always feel like they have any control in the outcome.
An experienced family law attorney can best
help former spouses determine an arrangement that works for each individual.
After separation, many
former spouses want to make lifestyle changes or purchase big - ticket items, such as a new car.
It also includes buyers whose spouse owns a home, single parents whose
former spouses owned a home and those who have previously owned motor homes.
Financial payments made to help support a spouse or
former spouse during a separation or following a divorce.
As well as having to pay legal costs,
former spouses now find themselves paying for the cost of two households instead of one, all on the same income.
Although former spouses would likely prefer to move on after a divorce, each person's living arrangements may become relevant to ongoing legal issues between the two parties.
Some people have mental / physical challenges that make full - time work hard; how do
former spouses handle that?
And even when the drama dies, for
many former spouses, bitterness and resentment lives on, long after the kids themselves are grown and gone.
The word «divorce» brings a number of unpleasant images to mind: people crying, court rooms with lawyers and
screaming former spouses.
Sometimes
former spouses try to use bankruptcy to get around living up to the demands of a property settlement agreement.
You might even consider setting up a fraud alert to protect yourself from an angry
former spouse who has access to all of your personal information.
Joint decision - making requires extensive communication and cooperation between parents, and
sometimes former spouses can not accomplish that without fighting.
Most child custody cases end amicably,
with former spouses agreeing to visitation schedules and support payments from the non-custodial parent.
Add to that baggage is the realization that there are often a lot more players in a second marriage — such as children
from former spouses, step - children, and sometimes even new children from this marriage.
Moving past anger, blame, shame and guilt is essential
if former spouses are to effectively co-parent
Not re-establishing yourself with the life insurance company as beneficiary on life insurance (or having it stated clearly in your separation agreement) since there is an automatic revocation of
former spouse as beneficiary under Colorado Law.
I have friends who cheated
on former spouses and haven't said a peep to their new love interests nor do they plan to — and their partners asked them not to tell them anything.
by Kathryn Dickerson and Alan Plevy - from the Huffington Post Divorce Tensions can run high
when former spouses have to work together and oftentimes, divorced couples feel like they are no longer allies.
As advocates for victims of domestic violence, they must acknowledge that some men exact revenge
against former spouses by poisoning the children's affections for their mother.
Maintenance payments in respect of a child, spouse or
former spouse made under a separation agreement or a court order
A formal agreement, which is made when things are going well, can benefit everyone involved when issues arise or when one
former spouse takes on new responsibilities — or enters into a co-habitation situation with a new partner.
From time to time,
former spouses remarry each other, even though statistics are against them (and second marriages in general).
Some couples prefer long term legal separation over divorce to allow spouses to receive Uniformed
Services Former Spouse Protection Act and Social Security benefits.
Further, spouses typically must stay married for at least ten years to be eligible for benefits under the Uniformed Services
Former Spouse Protection Act, and the same requirements apply to eligibility for certain Social Security benefits.
Marital breakdown means
former spouses go separate ways and reconstruct their lives in distant places.
It can absorb bumps and conflicts along the way because the vision is there at the beginning that the process will end with agreement and a good plan for the spouses» new separate lives as they
become former spouses.
Former spouses need to be helped to give up as finished the hopes and dreams invested in their marriage and begin reinvesting in their own future course.
According to Colorado Divorce and Family Law Guide, maintenance ends when one
former spouse dies or when the one recipient spouse remarries.