You Could Get Stuck With Your Spouse’s Debt in Divorce Between credit cards, mortgage loans, car loans, and student loans, Americans are in a whole lot of debt. Owing money can be hard to cope with under the best of circumstances, and when your debts get tangled up with marital issues during a divorce, things…
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11 Rules for Helping Your Child Deal With Divorce The scene plays out all too often. Sandy’s 9-year-old daughter eagerly waits by the window, bags packed. But after 20 minutes, maybe an hour, it becomes obvious her father is not showing up — again. She begins to cry. “He’s not here because he doesn’t love…
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Visitation Rights for Parents Denied Child Custody Parents who are denied child custody in court are often granted generous visitation rights. In most cases, the courts strongly support and encourage the involvement of both parents, even when they determine that living in one consistent location would be in the child’s best interests. Therefore, if you recently…
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5 factors that May Predict Divorce, According to Psychology Like the break-ups themselves, divorce rates are a complicated subject to study. Questions abound: Should we really want divorce rates to go down? Is it true that about half of American marriages end in splitsville? And why are so many baby boomers ending things all of a sudden? Then there are the questions…
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Can Divorce Affect Your Student Loans? Going through a divorce can get messy, especially when there are a lot of assets to divide and financial matters to take care of. Even worse, couples often forget that debts — and not just assets — must often be split. And student loan debt can be especially hairy.…
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Can Divorce Destroy Your Retirement? If you’re getting a divorce, you probably don’t spend a lot of time thinking about how it will impact your retirement — but it’s a valid concern. A study by the Insured Retirement Institute found that 24% of divorced baby boomers said they’d be worse off in retirement due to…
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