We’ve all likely heard the statistics and studies related to how cheating and infidelity can ruin a marriage. While catching a spouse with another man or woman can certainly be devastating and result in a quick divorce filing, there’s another type of infidelity that is often more difficult to discover, but which may be just as damaging to the relationship
Be it a relationship with a friend, co-worker, parent or sibling; every relationship has it’s challenges that, at times, may leave one feelings as though he or she wants to throw in the towel. In most cases, the most-challenging relationship to maintain and sustain is the one between spouses. As time marches on and changes and stressors associated with jobs,
A recent study helps disprove the notion that love is sweeter the second, or even third, time around. This at least, according to a recent study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, appears to be true when it comes to married couples in the U.S. who are age 50 and older. According to the study, since 1990,
While most people likely have much more romantic definitions of marriage, at its core, marriage is the legal union of two individuals. When two people decide to marry, they essentially enter into a binding legal contract the terms of which, surprisingly, many married individuals aren’t fully aware of until they begin to contemplate filing for divorce. Divorce laws vary by
An individual who is planning to divorce is likely to experience a wide-range of feelings and emotions—some of which may, at times, be conflicting. While thoughts and feelings about certain divorce-related matters may change and evolve, concerns about one’s financial status are likely to be constant. There’s no doubt that divorce can take a major toll on one’s financial security
Fifty or more years ago, couples who were unable to conceive on their own naturally had few options. In most cases, when a husband or wife was diagnosed as having a fertility problem, the couple could either chose to adopt or simply resign to the fact that they weren’t meant to be parents. Today, couples who experience fertility issues have
In some cases, the decision to file for divorce is one reached after months or even years of arguing and unhappiness. In other cases, a divorce filing may seem abrupt and be in reaction to the discovery of an affair or of a spouse’s problems with substance abuse. Whatever the case may be, once an individual has made the decision
Love has been called the universal language. Regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or political ideology; everyone needs love and longs to find someone to both love and love them back. Of course, there are varying ideas of what it means to love and be loved and it’s these differences that often prevent individuals from both finding and staying
In our last blog post, we began discussing the important role that social media is increasingly playing in both contributing to divorce and during divorce proceedings. In this post, we’ll examine how evidence mined from a soon-to-be ex-spouse’s social media account may be useful when negotiating divorce and custody matters. Social media website like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter provide a virtual
Within the last decade, the world of social media has exploded as people of all ages increasingly turn to the Internet to connect and communicate with others. As evidence of social media’s far reach, the Pew Research Center estimates that, today, 71 percent of U.S. adults use Facebook, 26 percent use Instagram and 23 percent, Twitter. People of all ages
We’ve all likely heard the statistics and studies related to how cheating and infidelity can ruin a marriage. While catching a spouse with another man or woman can certainly be devastating and result in a quick divorce filing, there’s another type of infidelity that is often more difficult to discover, but which may be just as damaging to the relationship
Be it a relationship with a friend, co-worker, parent or sibling; every relationship has it’s challenges that, at times, may leave one feelings as though he or she wants to throw in the towel. In most cases, the most-challenging relationship to maintain and sustain is the one between spouses. As time marches on and changes and stressors associated with jobs,
A recent study helps disprove the notion that love is sweeter the second, or even third, time around. This at least, according to a recent study by the National Center for Family and Marriage Research, appears to be true when it comes to married couples in the U.S. who are age 50 and older. According to the study, since 1990,
While most people likely have much more romantic definitions of marriage, at its core, marriage is the legal union of two individuals. When two people decide to marry, they essentially enter into a binding legal contract the terms of which, surprisingly, many married individuals aren’t fully aware of until they begin to contemplate filing for divorce. Divorce laws vary by
An individual who is planning to divorce is likely to experience a wide-range of feelings and emotions—some of which may, at times, be conflicting. While thoughts and feelings about certain divorce-related matters may change and evolve, concerns about one’s financial status are likely to be constant. There’s no doubt that divorce can take a major toll on one’s financial security
Fifty or more years ago, couples who were unable to conceive on their own naturally had few options. In most cases, when a husband or wife was diagnosed as having a fertility problem, the couple could either chose to adopt or simply resign to the fact that they weren’t meant to be parents. Today, couples who experience fertility issues have
In some cases, the decision to file for divorce is one reached after months or even years of arguing and unhappiness. In other cases, a divorce filing may seem abrupt and be in reaction to the discovery of an affair or of a spouse’s problems with substance abuse. Whatever the case may be, once an individual has made the decision
Love has been called the universal language. Regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality or political ideology; everyone needs love and longs to find someone to both love and love them back. Of course, there are varying ideas of what it means to love and be loved and it’s these differences that often prevent individuals from both finding and staying
In our last blog post, we began discussing the important role that social media is increasingly playing in both contributing to divorce and during divorce proceedings. In this post, we’ll examine how evidence mined from a soon-to-be ex-spouse’s social media account may be useful when negotiating divorce and custody matters. Social media website like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter provide a virtual
Within the last decade, the world of social media has exploded as people of all ages increasingly turn to the Internet to connect and communicate with others. As evidence of social media’s far reach, the Pew Research Center estimates that, today, 71 percent of U.S. adults use Facebook, 26 percent use Instagram and 23 percent, Twitter. People of all ages
