One of the problematic issues of divorce is that it affect so many aspects of your life. You may have to change where you live, the type of car you drive, your relationship with your children, your economic lifestyle, and your future economic situation including your retirement. It even can affect your Social Security benefits.
Divorce can alter your Social Security retirement benefits
Understanding divorce and your car loans, pt.2
In our last post, we were discussing how you could be forced to pay a for a car that your former spouse had been assigned in your divorce.
Understanding divorce and your car loans, pt.1
During a divorce, you can become rather fo
cused on your goal of separating yourself and your finances from your spouse. If you don't have children and won't have a child custody agreement or visitation issues to deal with, you may be able to make a fairly clean break from your former spouse.
Domestic violence and divorce
There are few issues more difficult than dealing with allegations of domestic violence during a divorce case. If there is violence going on in a marriage, the already difficult of emotional and psychological challenges of a divorce will be all the greater. If you are accused of domestic violence, preventing those issues from overwhelming the entire proceeding may be difficult.
Insurance issues with divorce
Divorce requires the examination of many things you may not really deal with much in your daily life. Insurance is one very important area that needs to be dealt with during your divorce. From life insurance to health insurance, you need to understand how your divorce will change how these policies work and the types of insurance policies you may need.
How to avoid disaster when going through a divorce
If you have told your friends and family that you are getting a divorce, it is likely that you are going to be peppered with advice about what you should do and how you should feel. Indeed, they probably have best interests in mind, but their advice may not really help you when it comes to making sure the process works for you and is within your budget.
It's the conflict, not the divorce
There is always a great deal of concern for parents when it comes to divorce and their children. Many parents worry that their children will be "harmed" by divorce. There are many things that they may consider harm, from doing poorly in school to having a divorce of their own in the far distant future.
Too much texting leads to divorce
A report from Saudi Arabia describes the latest problem caused by technology. In this instance, it was texting. A bride and groom returned to their hotel room on their wedding night. The wife was responding to texts congratulating the new couple. The newly-minted husband asked her to stop and after becoming frustrated asked if the friends she was texting were more important than he was. She, annoyed by his question, said they were. Yelling and escalated arguments followed.
How to tell your children you are divorcing
Divorce is full of emotional events. From the first time the thought crossed your mind that you want to end your marriage, to the day you contacted a divorce attorney, until the day you receive the final order in your case from the Missouri family court, you will have to deal with various types of emotional tumult.
Does no-fault divorce need to be changed?
No-fault divorce is the standard method of obtaining a divorce. In Missouri, you can proceed with either a fault or a no-fault divorce. No-fault is often criticized for a range of societal problems from lowering the economic status of women to the fall of Western Civilization. Part of the problem may be that people tend to have short memories and see incidents with no-fault occurring today as somehow being uniquely troubled.
