Actress Tori Spelling, the famous daughter of TV legend Aaron Spelling, has been beset by financial problems for years due to a combination of a lavish lifestyle, a chronically unemployed spouse, five young children under the age of 11 and a variety of failed...
International child abductions happen for a very simple reason. Foreign courts can be very favorable to the estranged spouses of U.S. residents when there's a child involved. If a child's parents can remove the child from the United States and get the court of his or...
Nonpayment of child support is one of the biggest hurdles that a lot of parents face. For those not getting payment, it can be impossible to make ends meet financially. For those not paying the proper amount, there are many looming ramifications, from a potential...
When should you think about divorce? Is it when your marriage has been on the rocks for a year or longer? Should you start thinking about it after only a couple months of trouble? Attorneys have actually long advocated "divorce planning" in the form of prenuptial...
The "Tax Cut and Jobs Act" was signed into law on December 22, 2017. Along with the changes widely reported in the media, the new law changed a few significant income tax credits and deductions that affect divorcing or divorced couples and parents of minor children....
It's been three years since the Supreme Court's historic ruling on same-sex marriage rights. Now, the court is being asked to consider the rights of same-sex parents to custody -- or the lack thereof. Attorneys for the biological mother of a child conceived and born...
A lot of same-sex couples who had been together for a long time celebrated the Supreme Court's declaration that gay marriage was legal by doing what a lot of other couples in love have done. They eloped. While they probably didn't sneak out of their parents' houses in...
Getting a divorce is a lot more complicated than just deciding that your marriage is truly over. You have to start thinking like a single person again. Depending on how long you've been in your relationship, that can be hard to do -- but it's absolutely necessary. In...
More and more people are working as independent contractors -- or significantly supplementing their income through what is becoming known as the "gig" economy. People take all sorts of jobs online and off -- tutoring students for the SATs, giving music lessons,...
Divorce can be a messy, expensive process. The last thing, however, that you want to let your divorce cost you is your job. Unfortunately, that's a real possibility when you can't find a way to draw a division between your personal and professional lives. Here are...