If you’ve reached the point of knowing there’s no hope of mending a broken marriage, then now is the time to begin planning for a divorce, and for a life separate from your spouse. Read on for several tips on what to do before filing for divorce to make the process...
Year: 2016
Study Finds that Majority of Families Avoid Discussing End-of-Life Financial Subjects
No one relishes discussing what will happen when they or their parents become too feeble to manage money. If you’re entering old age, or are an adult child of elderly parents, time is of the essence to discuss these matters. The longer you put off having these...
Kentucky Supreme Court Issues Opinion on Grandparents’ Rights
In an opinion addressing the visitation rights of grandparents, the Supreme Court of Kentucky denied a grandmother’s request for visitation with her grandson who was under the care of his aunt and uncle. In its opinion, the court emphasized the importance of parental...
Prevent Divorce from Leaving a Negative Impact on Your Credit
Not only can divorce leave you in rough shape emotionally, it can also exact a substantial toll on your financial health. Many of those recently divorced find that their credit score took a major hit during and after their divorce. Unfortunately, this tends to come at...
Find a Custody-Splitting Schedule that Helps Your Kids Thrive
After the upheaval of a divorce, it’s so important to help return your children’s lives and schedules to something stable and regular. While splitting your children’s time between two homes comes with its own aspects of upheaval, there are things you and your...
Don’t Allow Your Divorce to Become More Expensive than It Needs to Be
Divorce is sometimes a heated, painful process. Finding yourself in the midst of a battle with someone you thought you’d be spending the rest of your life with can sometimes rob you of your better judgment, and lead you to want to cause them as much discomfort and...
Questions to Ask Before Fighting to Keep the House in a Divorce
When you’re getting divorced, so much changes at once that you may be tempted to hold onto your home for one bastion of stability. The choice to try and retain a house in a split is often driven by emotion, however, and may not be in your best interest financially....
Is My Marriage Eligible for Annulment?
If you are considering ending your marriage, perhaps for social or religious reasons you may be considering an annulment. Unlike divorce, annulment makes it as though the marriage never occurred. However, while divorces can be obtained on a no-fault basis in Kentucky,...