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Earning Potential Impacts Divorce
In a divorce, the financial aspects of your ex spouse will have a bearing upon multiple factors such as spousal support and child...

James Chau
May 28, 20081 min read
Credit cards and Divorce
It appears the PRLog is reporting what many people in the divorce business know already, financial strain is the primary cause of divorce...

James Chau
Apr 7, 20081 min read
Britain Marriage Rates all time Low
The Times Online is reporting that in Britain the marriage rates are at an all time low. The paper is reporting that, with the tax...

James Chau
Mar 27, 20081 min read
For Custody Judges Now Consider Childrens Preferences
It appears that the new idea of having children being listened to in family matters is becoming more common globally. In Israel as,...

James Chau
Mar 14, 20081 min read
More and More Courts Upholding Prenuptial Agreements
The times of UK is reporting that, prenuptial agreements are being widely upheld. Prenuptial agreements while previously thought of as...

James Chau
Feb 17, 20081 min read
New Year and New Divorces
The National Post is reporting that, with the coming new year, many married couples choose to proceed with a divorce after the holidays....

James Chau
Jan 15, 20081 min read
Divorce in 20 Minutes?
Apparently in Cuba, Divorce can be completed in a matter of 20 minutes. The Associated Press is reporting that in communist Cuba, where...

James Chau
Jan 4, 20081 min read
No Divorce in Rhode Island for Same Sex Couples
So the legal limbo that started when Massachusetts became the only state in the union to legalize same sex marriage is continuing to...

James Chau
Dec 9, 20071 min read
International Child Support
It’s a shame that laws have to be in place forcing people to pay for the support and maintenance of their children. As a news story is...

James Chau
Nov 28, 20071 min read
A New Tort for Parental Alienation
I just read this from the AP Press New Jersey. Apparently a man is attempting to create precedent in the Civil Courts, by filing a civil...

James Chau
Nov 9, 20071 min read
Divorce in Ireland - Not so easy.
For as much as people complain about how slow the bureaucracy is here in the U.S. and how long a divorce proceeding takes, thank goodness...

James Chau
Oct 30, 20072 min read
No Longer the 7 Year Itch. How bout 5 Years?
Apparently as our faced paced society goes faster, and faster towards what we know not. Was it inevitable that the classic cliche of the...

James Chau
Oct 29, 20071 min read
Should Alimony Stop when Former Spouse enteres a Domestic Partnership?
So inevitably, this would happen, because of California’s difficulty with treating same sex couples as separate but equal, the...

James Chau
Oct 25, 20072 min read
Domestic Violence and the Koran
In an unexplicable case of cultural sensitivity gone awry, a German family court judge has cited passages from the Koran, which uphold a...

James Chau
Oct 24, 20071 min read
Real Life War of the Roses
So I read in the New York Post, that a real life version of the war of the roses is ocurring in Brooklyn New York. The former couple went...

James Chau
Oct 20, 20071 min read
Child Support Arrears and Passports
The associated press is reporting that. In another method the US government is employing to get parents to pay child support, the US...

James Chau
Oct 16, 20071 min read
Alimony / Spousal Support after Sex Reassignment
Apparently, recent case law in Ohio, regarding alimony at least, has ruled that a sex change does not alter an agreement to pay spousal...

James Chau
Oct 15, 20071 min read
Bad Marriage Bad For Health
A New York Times article is stating that a bad marriage may raise your heart disease risk. This seems in line with previous reports which...

James Chau
Oct 12, 20071 min read
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