Minimizing the Impact of a Divorce on Your Children How to Make the Pain of Divorce Less Painful for Your Children Most parents of divorce don’t want their children to suffer because of a divorce, but it happens far too often anyway, often through unintended acts or consequences. Here are some of the things you…
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Study Shows Lower Marriage Rate Tied to Economic Divide Marriage More Likely for Higher Income People In a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, researchers found a consistent trend over the last half century—fewer and fewer people choosing never to marry. In 1960, less than 10 percent of adults never married. Today, that percentage…
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Flight Diverted Because of Custody Dispute Authorities Bring International Flight Back to Stop Child Kidnapping Last September, U.S. government officials took the highly unusual step of requesting that the pilot of an international flight, headed for China, return to the United States. The reason—the FBI had strong evidence that one of the passengers, an American…
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Enforceability Issues Related to Living Wills Enforceability of Person’s Wishes in Living Will in Question across the United States In a high profile case in Pennsylvania, the daughter of a terminally ill man has been hit with criminal charges after she handed him a bottle of morphine (at his request), which he proceeded to drink.…
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Expanding Domestic Violence Protection in NJ A new ruling is likely to expand domestic violence protection in New Jersey, as an appeals court has ruled that a judge who denied a restraining order should have taken into account the divorced husband’s past civil restraint violations. Download Our Free Divorce Guide In the case in question,…
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State of New Jersey: Lowest Rate of Divorce in the US With New Jersey being the object of romantic relationship scuttlebutt (and pop culture jokes) on a regular basis, you would think that the divorce rate might be higher than that of other states in the US; but you’d be wrong. Reality shows like Jersey…
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