Category: Divorce
Hopefully, you started the divorce process correctly and hired a great attorney who has experience and with whom you formed a great working relationship that allows you to ask questions and allows your attorney to fully learn your intentions. Besides this most important first step, here are some considerations before you sign that Judgment of Divorce. 1. Get […]
If you are considering filing for divorce or were served with divorce papers, the immediate concern is often ‘how much will this cost’? And any competent attorney who can provide you with good results will tell you ‘it depends’.’ So, let’s consider what that phrase means. What Will You Pay the Divorce Attorney? An attorney is paid for […]
A former police officer whose role in the death of a man while being arrested in Minnesota sparked outrage across the country is facing questions about whether his recent divorce is an elaborate scheme to escape the long arm of the law. A judge in Minneapolis recently rejected a proposed divorce settlement between Derek Chauvin and his […]
Our Domestic Violence Attorneys Are Here to Help You Escape Your Bad Situation Kent County Circuit Court records reflect that the court issued 2,400 Personal Protection Orders, sometimes called Restraining Orders, in 2017. That’s the number of people who felt threatened or harassed or were attacked by someone. For abuse to be ongoing, the abuser […]
You were in love, and then you married. You bought a house together because your first child was on the way. Life became busy, and suddenly you realize that you have had a lot of conflicts, and those conflicts are not being resolved. Eventually, conflicts turn into fights, and here you are: reading a divorce attorney’s blog on […]
The average American owns four credit cards with an average credit card debt of about $6,000. When couples divorce, their assets and debts must be divided equitably. This property division must be equitable. Equitable means fair; not necessarily equal; although for many divorcing couples, the division of assets and debts is equal or close to equal. During the divorce process, […]
On June 11, 2020, the Michigan Court of Appeals issued a published opinion in the matter of Stavale v Stavale. David Stavale and his attorney emailed each other about the case, and those emails included confidential information. Michigan law provides that whatever an attorney discusses with his or her client is considered attorney-client privileged information, and these conversations, either […]
Divorce among Muslim couples is on the rise. Studies show this and we have noticed this in our firm as well. Regardless of your religious or cultural background, a divorce will be one of the more challenging periods in your life. For Muslim men and women, they are faced with additional challenges of their faith and tradition. Muslim families […]
Before You Call a Michigan Divorce Lawyer… People usually take a year to plan a wedding when they have limited assets and no kids. And then after a big fight over the weekend, people call us on Monday morning and plan to file for divorce. By now, they have substantial assets to divide, custody to decide […]
During our decades of representing spouses and parents in their divorces and custody cases, our lawyers have learned that alcohol abuse often is a factor for the breakup of the relationship. This is perhaps not a surprise, as Alcoholism-Statistics.com reports that an estimated 6.6 million children live in homes with at least one alcoholic parent. These statistics […]