Among the various decisions and surprises that you may face as part of your divorce is establishing how much alimony will be paid by one spouse to the other. This can be a vexing problem because where child support is set using a cut-and-dry calculation, alimony is determined using a much more subjective procedure.
Category Archives: Divorce
Lose the Spouse, Sell the House
The easy way out in a divorce is for the two parties to negotiate and agree that the husband will pay certain debts, and the wife will pay certain other debts. The problem is, unless you arrange to have your name removed from joint accounts, you might find yourself responsible for more debt than you bargained for.
How Discovery Can Help Win Your Case
Lawyers use a lot of tools and techniques to build their client’s divorce case, but one of the most useful (and sometimes most feared) is the discovery process. Discovery is so useful that some attorney’s use it as a threat. Find out how discovery can help your case.
Facebook Places and Your Security
Facebook recently launched a new function called Facebook Places. This is a new function (active on your mobile device) that allows you to quickly post not only your location, but you can include the names of those with you.
At first blush, this sounds like a lot of fun. If you’re at a nice club and [...]
The Paramour Provision and Child Custody – Part 2
It’s probably too early to say the paramour provision is dead, but the rules are changing for the better.
The Paramour Provision and Child Custody – Part 1
Divorce can offer the unsuspecting participant some ugly surprises. One of these is what’s called the “paramour provision” in a Tennessee parenting plan.
Marital Property after Spouses Separate, part 2
Suppose the wife of a wealthy lawyer files for divorce in January, and the couple spends several months negotiating a settlement. Eight months later, they still haven’t got the divorce settled, and the lawyer gets awarded a big fee in a case he’s been working on for several years. When I say “big”, I mean a fee in the amount of $17,000,000. It’s been almost a year since the couple split up, is the wife entitled to some of that money?
Dating while Separated
So what’s the problem? The divorce has been filed. The parties are separated. The kids are spending time with each parent. The divorce is so close you can taste it, why not go ahead get out there, have some fun, and re-enter the dating scene?
Alimony, Alimony, and more Alimony!
Divorce procedure in Tennessee is generally fairly straightforward, but certain issues are often sure to cause a fight. The most emotional and violent fights tend to be over the custody of the children, but often not far behind is the prospect of one party paying alimony to the other.
Tennessee law provides four different types of [...]
Marital Property After Spouses Separate
Is the stuff we purchase after the separation marital property or separate property?