May 12, 2018 | Advice, Divorce
First of all, consider whose children they are. They are not yours. Therefore, it seems that if anyone is going to explain your divorce to someone else’s kids it ought to be those kids’ parents. Certainly, at the very least you must ask the parents if they...
May 11, 2018 | Advice, Divorce
As difficult as divorce can be for the spouses, it may be as difficult, or more so, for the children. Many entire books and articles have been written on the subject by psychological and sociological experts. We lawyers are neither of those. We may have experienced...
Apr 16, 2018 | Advice, Cheap Divorce, Divorce, Uncontested Divorce
For a divorce to be low cost, everything about it must be simple and involve very little work for the lawyer. That can only be the case if both parties are and remain available and fully cooperative and both give written consent to the divorce, no matter how the...
Apr 15, 2018 | Advice, Divorce
It is an unfortunate fact that half of all marriages end in divorce (and three out of four ends whenever stepchildren are part of the picture). It is all but impossible for both people to decide at the same time that they want the divorce. One may see it coming, but...
Apr 12, 2018 | Advice, Divorce, Uncontested Divorce
Believe it or not, someone who gets divorced may remarry before the ink is dry on the divorce decree. There is a 30 day period that begins with the date on the decree during which either party to the divorce may file something called “exceptions” to the...
Dec 22, 2017 | Advice, Cheap Divorce, Divorce, Uncontested Divorce
First, one may think that I should have used “may I” instead of “can I” in the title. In this instance, “can I” is correct. Under our law, a person “may” represent him or herself in our Courts of Common Pleas where divorces...
