A few lawyers have recently called asking me how to best value a home in a strong real estate market with scarcity of inventory driving prices upward on a near daily basis. And, I don’t see this trend slowing down any time soon because even higher interests rates didn’t seem to change things much. Fortunately, […]
Often spouses don’t know that they are married to someone with a personality disorder. They know the marriage is problematic, the household is generally dysfunctional, and the disordered spouse always seems to escape responsibility at every turn. Sometimes the disorder can be on the narcissistic scale, or more dangerous, are spouses with borderline personality disorders […]
With Pat Robertson’s passing today, it reminded me of a 2011 story when he said on the “700 Club” that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease was justified. Robertson, then the Chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network and former Republican presidential candidate, said he wouldn’t “put a guilt trip” on someone for divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s […]
It’s widely accepted that spouses in a divorce can ask for the other to help pay for their lawyer. There’s all sort of reasons why that should or shouldn’t happen. But more recent litigation has finally put to bed the issue if unmarried parents could get the other parent to help in the payment of […]
Oswald case just dropped from the appellate court. Here is the case, if you want to read it yourself: IRMO Oswald. This was a Will County case where the husband was successful at reducing his alimony obligation from $2,500 per month down to zero. Nada. None. How does this happen? I typically advise my clients […]
Often after a client had previously hired another lawyer and later coming to me by referral complained that they had no idea how to pick their divorce lawyer. So, I thought maybe I need to share this information with world. Here is how a seasoned divorce lawyer would pick a lawyer for their own divorce […]
All too often, spouses are surprised by a Divorce Decree that doesn’t have the prearranged terms that they negotiated with their spouse. More often than not, this happens when people try to represent themselves, which is never a good idea. One spouse files the case, and the other spouse is just along for the ride […]
The Right of First Refusal in Arizona is not automatic by statute “the law” but such a provision appears in some parenting plans agreed upon by the parents or ordered by the court. A Right of First Refusal provision simply defines the rights of parents when the other parent is not available to care for […]
I’ve seen several divorce lawyers over the years simply fail with their attempt to write and sell a book about divorce. I know the lure of wanting to write a divorce book because that siren has tempted me over and over again over the years. Heck, I even have a 300+ page book in complete […]
Often I field calls from spouses and parents that indicate their belief that they married a narcissist. This with a plethora of other disorders often cause a divorce. And while divorce lawyers are usually not trained psychologists, the more experienced divorce lawyers have been involved with cases touching on personality disorders, and we are able […]
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