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...
The divorce process is seldom easy, especially for high-net-worth couples. For these couples, the asset division process complicates the divorce process generally because of the number of assets that need to be split. When one spouse hides Cincinnati, Ohio, assets, it...
When one home become two, parents rightfully worry about how it will affect their children. Children often feel torn between these two new places, but both should feel like their home. But, how do you make them both feel like home? Emotional and physical stability...
Upon the dissolution of a marriage, child custody questions are a paramount concern. Who gets custody of the children? How is this determined? People may wonder if the courts in Ohio are gender biased. As in most states in the union, in Ohio, neither mother nor father...
Couples will often fight over spousal support in a divorce. One spouse argues it should be paid, while the other spouse argues they should pay nothing. But spousal support is often necessary to keep both spouses on even financial footing after their divorce....
Figuring out how to deal with your divorce can be enormously stressful. After all, you probably don’t want the details of your marriage to be broadcast to everyone in open court. Yet, unless you can settle your marriage dissolution through settlement negotiations,...