01/ 20
2015 is officially upon us and every New Year brings about many changes. In Michigan those changes include several new laws that will have a direct impact on the state's child support system and how things operate in the future. The Michigan Child Support System/Program is a vast operation which collects at least a billion dollars in child support every…
01/ 15
Anyone in the Macomb County area who is contemplating divorce has probably considered how their property will be divided if they were to actually file. Divorce cases are complex and make take unexpected turns during the course of litigation, especially relative to child custody and division of property, even more so when the financial estate being divided is large in…
01/ 06
The nuclear family, which consisted of a husband, wife, 2.5 kids, a dog, and a house with a white picket fence in the suburbs, is a distant memory for many. There are an estimated 46,523 divorces filed every week in the United States. While this may seem shocking, it should come as no surprise considering first marriages ending in divorce…
12/ 30
Divorce has become commonplace, so much so that people are often surprised if you've never been married as it is highly likely that at least 31% of your friends between the ages of 35 and 54 who are married, engaged, or cohabiting have previously gone through a divorce. Young couples marrying for the first time face a lifetime divorce risk…
12/ 23
No one, especially young newlyweds -- whose lifetime divorce risk is approximately 40% -- wants to consider the possibility of divorce. While divorce was once a sensitive subject, it has become increasingly commonplace in the United States, so much so that the shock factor has all but disappeared. Divorce, it seems, is reflective of the rapidly changing dynamics of blended…
12/ 18
Separation with children, be it legal or through divorce, is an increasingly common phenomenon in the modern world. About 13.7 million parents identified in the 2011 U.S. Census had custody of 22.0 million children under the age of 21, while the second parent lived elsewhere. The top five reasons for divorce in the U.S. are communication problems, financial problems, abuse,…
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