In our past divorce law post, we started a conversation about when business meets divorce. Some couples not only join together in a marital union, but they also collaborate professionally. Maybe they even started their own family business. It is important to divorced parties future stability for them to try to get out of their marriage with the best business
When some couples get together, they are joined at the hip. They have a home together. They are parents together. And some couples are even business owners together. All of that togetherness during a marriage can make for complications during a divorce. Among the above collaborations often shared by spouses, the business collaboration can be the most complicated after getting
Men and women will say the darndest things when a marriage goes south. Words — or threats — that they may have never even thought were in their rhetorical repertoire might come out and make a stressful divorce situation even more stressful. Money and the goal of financial security can be driving factors that impact the decisions made during a
The streets and businesses of Boston are filled with women with impressive educations, careers and career goals. Those professional women’s goals might be no different from the men standing next to them. So what happens when two professionals get married and have children? A recent New York Times piece follows the lives of a few families with untraditional lifestyles. Their
Not even movie stars are immune to the hardships of marriage. An unhappy marriage is an unhappy marriage, whether someone is a stay-at-home mom, accountant, hair stylist or mega movie star and director. Clint Eastwood and his wife Dina are calling it quits after almost 20 years of marriage. Clint and Dina have one minor child together, so their divorce
Love them or hate them, the Kardashian family and those who have married into the famous clan manage to stay in the headlines. Usually, the limelight is on Kim and her current love life. Lately, Khloe and her marriage to Lamar Odom has been under a microscope. Now, the elder woman of the famous reality family, Kris Jenner, is facing
Residents here in Massachusetts who are familiar with celebrity gossip are likely aware of the recent news floating around the internet this month concerning actors Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. They recently announced that they would be taking a break from their marriage in an attempt to evaluate it better. Some are now speculating that this could mean that divorce
Back in 2010, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Lynch was at the height of her fame. She was also in love, and in June of that year she and her girlfriend, a clinical psychologist, were married here in Massachusetts. The couple then registered as domestic partners in California, their main state of residence. To many of her fans’ dismay,
Generally speaking, celebrity and other high-asset divorce cases aren’t all that different from those of ordinary people, except that there are often complex financial issues that must be considered during the division of assets and debts. In the cases of some celebrities, however, another difference can arise: the possibility that public interest in the case could affect its outcome. That
In 2012, Massachusetts family law changed. The legislature ended the practice of awarding permanent alimony in virtually all cases. Instead, the new law sets up a number of factors to be considered when courts weigh alimony requests. Under the previous law, courts often ordered permanent alimony in long-term marriages as a matter of course. Now, our family courts are to take into
In our past divorce law post, we started a conversation about when business meets divorce. Some couples not only join together in a marital union, but they also collaborate professionally. Maybe they even started their own family business. It is important to divorced parties future stability for them to try to get out of their marriage with the best business
When some couples get together, they are joined at the hip. They have a home together. They are parents together. And some couples are even business owners together. All of that togetherness during a marriage can make for complications during a divorce. Among the above collaborations often shared by spouses, the business collaboration can be the most complicated after getting
Men and women will say the darndest things when a marriage goes south. Words — or threats — that they may have never even thought were in their rhetorical repertoire might come out and make a stressful divorce situation even more stressful. Money and the goal of financial security can be driving factors that impact the decisions made during a
The streets and businesses of Boston are filled with women with impressive educations, careers and career goals. Those professional women’s goals might be no different from the men standing next to them. So what happens when two professionals get married and have children? A recent New York Times piece follows the lives of a few families with untraditional lifestyles. Their
Not even movie stars are immune to the hardships of marriage. An unhappy marriage is an unhappy marriage, whether someone is a stay-at-home mom, accountant, hair stylist or mega movie star and director. Clint Eastwood and his wife Dina are calling it quits after almost 20 years of marriage. Clint and Dina have one minor child together, so their divorce
Love them or hate them, the Kardashian family and those who have married into the famous clan manage to stay in the headlines. Usually, the limelight is on Kim and her current love life. Lately, Khloe and her marriage to Lamar Odom has been under a microscope. Now, the elder woman of the famous reality family, Kris Jenner, is facing
Residents here in Massachusetts who are familiar with celebrity gossip are likely aware of the recent news floating around the internet this month concerning actors Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas. They recently announced that they would be taking a break from their marriage in an attempt to evaluate it better. Some are now speculating that this could mean that divorce
Back in 2010, Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Lynch was at the height of her fame. She was also in love, and in June of that year she and her girlfriend, a clinical psychologist, were married here in Massachusetts. The couple then registered as domestic partners in California, their main state of residence. To many of her fans’ dismay,
Generally speaking, celebrity and other high-asset divorce cases aren’t all that different from those of ordinary people, except that there are often complex financial issues that must be considered during the division of assets and debts. In the cases of some celebrities, however, another difference can arise: the possibility that public interest in the case could affect its outcome. That
In 2012, Massachusetts family law changed. The legislature ended the practice of awarding permanent alimony in virtually all cases. Instead, the new law sets up a number of factors to be considered when courts weigh alimony requests. Under the previous law, courts often ordered permanent alimony in long-term marriages as a matter of course. Now, our family courts are to take into
