THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH By Alison Patton As a divorce lawyer, I saw it all the time: the disillusionment, the end of the dream, the realization that your spouse is flawed (and for the more enlightened, an awareness of your own …
Parents of girls are 5 percent more likely to divorce than parents of boys. Economists first analyzed the data that way in 2003, when Gordon Dahl at the University of Rochester and Enrico Moretti at U.C.L.A., identified that gap, and …
Six years after two young Reston boys were taken to Germany by their mother, the father of the boys still is fighting to have them returned. Gregory Gardner, 38, who married a German national living in the U.S. only two …
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One by one, Michiko walked through the legal steps of finalizing her divorce: dividing property, determining child custody and arranging her daughter's college fund. But when it came to settling the heartache over the end of her eight-year marriage to …
Divorce ceremonies give Japanese couples a new way to untie the knot Read more »
A state appeals court in Dallas has rejected a lower court's decision that two gay men who married in Massachusetts had the right to divorce in Texas. In October, state District Judge Tena Callahan ruled that the men could legally …
Dallas judge's ruling saying gay couple could divorce in Texas rejected on appeal Read more »
No one wants to think that their family requires family counseling and therapy, but sometimes it really is necessary. A family that is having trouble will benefit from having outside help. Sometimes it just isn’t possible to solve everything yourself …
Family Counseling and Therapy Can Help Your Family Read more »
Deciding what you should or should not tell the children you have custody of is very simple. It requires you to keep in mind what is healthy for your kids. Reasons for the separation and divorce of their parents is …
What custodial parents should and should not tell their children Read more »
As more and more grandparents take on some or all of the responsibility of caring for their grandchildren — more than 80,000 in Pennsylvania, according to census data — family and divorce lawyers say they are seeing more grandparents fighting …
More grandparents fighting to stay in grandchildren's lives Read more »
(This article presents a good argument for why litigants should seek mediation over litigation) Billy Williams already had spent $7,000 on attorney fees getting a divorce when he decided to act as his own lawyer for a custody dispute involving …
When we look at exuberant wedding photos, we never think, “Oh, good! Now those two can get divorced!” But in fact, the right to a divorce is just as important as the right to marry. In a charming, poignant essay …
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