Divorce can be a difficult and painful experience for everyone involved, especially for children. Children may feel confused, angry, sad or guilty when their parents decide to end their marriage. They may also face changes in their living arrangements, routines,...
Heading into your divorce, there’s a lot that you’re going to have to steel yourself for. You might end up in a fight with your spouse over child custody and visitation arrangements, but if your children are older and you have a high net worth, then your focus is...
Engaged couples can prepare for their legal and financial future by entering a prenuptial agreement. After marriage, couples can also prepare for asset division if they ever divorce and engage in financial planning by discussing and entering postnuptial agreements....
Ohio’s Child Support Guidelines help to ensure that the judges in this state issue child support orders fairly and consistently. The guidelines provide a detailed formula for courts to use to calculate support. Basically, the formula looks at each parent’s income, the...
While divorce can be a difficult and stressful process for anyone, it can have particularly negative consequences for older adults who are planning to retire soon. In this blog post, we will discuss some of the ways that a gray divorce can affect retirement plans for...
When a couple decides to end their marriage, the best interests of their children should come first. They are enduring equally challenging and traumatic times. For many kids facing a life-changing event, the stability they once knew is now in question. The U.S. has...
The Ohio House of Representatives is considering a bill that would make equal parenting time the default in a divorce involving children. The aim of the bill is to protect the best interests of both the parents and their child by avoiding win/lose custody battles. The...
Property division is one of the most complicated aspects of nearly every Ohio divorce. One of the first steps in the property division process is classifying your assets as marital property or separate property. The definitions of marital and separate property are...
Many business owners pay themselves a regular salary. This is not only a good business practice, but it is useful should they need to ascertain the value of their business in a divorce. The income approach is a popular method of business valuation when a business...
Many couple going through divorce turn to mediation to help them work through difficult issues. In some cases, mediation may even be mandatory. So what is mediation and how does it work? Mediation Mediation is a process in which a specially trained mediator helps...