Category: Divorce

Last updated on April 8, 2021

A recent financial article from CNN addresses an area that is of concern for many divorcing parties, especially those who have been married for decades and are now severing ties as they approach their retirement years. The topic is the obvious affect that divorce can have on a couple’s retirements savings — that is, the […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

For many couples and romantics, the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day in Georgia and across the country are filled with excitement, planning and anticipating the sweethearts’ holiday. Spouses look forward to intimate dinners, romantic getaways and gifts. Everything about February seems geared toward romance, but it’s actually the busiest month of the year for […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

When it comes to alcohol consumption and divorce, couples that drink together, stay together. A study that analyzed divorce among nearly 20,000 married couples in Norway found that compatibility as drinkers may keep couples together. Given the size and scope of the analysis, the study findings might likely be of interest and relevance throughout the […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Have you heard of the online dating sites Match.com or eHarmony? Do you perhaps peruse them occasionally or even have an account and active profile on one, both or some other Internet entity? For many persons who do, such sites are valuable tools for social interaction. They save time, energy and provide an important function […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Research findings increasingly indicate that, for many couples, financial strain is the predominant catalyst for marital difficulties and, ultimately, divorce. That might not strike all that many people as surprising, although a number of other factors — lifestyle incompatibility, religious differences, disparate views regarding child rearing, education and related family issues — typically come up […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Every year around this time, newly divorced persons across the country, including in Georgia, confront a novel and, for some, frustratingly complex, experience: filing taxes for the first time in many years as an individual and not in tandem with another person as a married couple. Divorce, as noted by virtually every commentator who has […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Jeff Landers, an author on divorce, recently wrote an article for Forbes in which he discussed some of the special considerations relating to divorce in instances when one or both of the spouses have dual citizenship. His advice at the very outset: Secure a qualified divorce team that will know the answers to or help […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

You might want to pity the plight of Veronica Lario, the estranged wife of Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s former prime minister. Per the terms of a just-reached divorce settlement between the couple, Lario will have only $132,000 to live on. Every day of the year. Such are the lifestyles of the rich and famous. In the […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

Much space is devoted these days in media articles to the growing divorce rate among people in their 50s and beyond. Although such a happening is often termed a “phenomenon” by columnists and pundits who write on social themes, relationships, family law and related matters, it is truly anything but that. Hard statistics from wide-ranging […]

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Last updated on April 8, 2021

After many months of speculation, media reports from late last week indicate that actor Ashton Kutcher and actress Demi Moore have finally proceeded to the next stage of their divorce-related saga, an actual filing of a divorce petition by Kutcher. Kutcher filed for divorce on December 21 in Los Angeles Superior Court. The couple was […]

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