Divorce “is a difficult thing.” The complexity of most divorces is often due to multiple factors that feature during the dissolution process, having to do with issues involving children, income and property. Divorce concerns often coalesce around a couple’s finances...
Bloomfield Hills Michigan Family Law Blog
Gossip-laden, sure, but some celebrity splits are also instructive
You have perhaps heard some of the stories, especially if you routinely scour online social media sites and television entertainment shows for celebrity-linked news and updates. Here’s one: Kanye ran for president. Here’s another: Kim and Kanye reportedly own...
Perhaps your best weapon in divorce: civility
The Michigan divorce process is not always tinged with amicability and good will between spouses, of course. After all, it is something less than matrimonial bliss that spurs a couple to end their marriage in the first place. Soon-to-be exes often – and, candidly,...
Opinion: Prenups are overdue for positive consideration
If you can’t adequately explain why you are a strong proponent of prenuptial agreements (candidly, those contracts do have an enduring image problem across a swath of the general public), you might just want to hand the baton off to Erin Lowry. Lowry is a financial...
Divorce factors can be many and diverse: plan accordingly
Nobody who has ever contemplated or gone through a divorce views that life event as a casual endeavor. Indeed, the marital dissolution process spells for many people a journey and life passage that is notably complex and challenging. We prominently note that reality...
Always relevant, certainly in 2021: divorce-tied tax considerations
The financial publication Kiplinger notes in a recent article that “divorce rates are expected to rise sharply in 2021.” We don’t imagine at the established Oakland County family law firm of Hauer & Snover in Bloomfield Hills that a declaration like that surprises...
Spotlighting the scourge of asset concealment in divorce
About 83% of American couples reportedly endorse the view – and understandably so, of course – that financial honesty with their spouse or significant other is a good idea. Yet approximately one-third of thousands of respondents in a recent survey on relationships...
Your spouse piled up credit card debt: Are you on the hook for it?
Following is a divorce scenario that rings true for some impending exes in Michigan and elsewhere. To wit: Your spouse consistently racked up purchases on a credit card during marriage in keeping with someone who won a national lottery. Alas, no winning ticket every...
It’s often real: the post-divorce “fresh start”
There is a veritable avalanche of cascading articles and reports on divorce in the United States. Sources providing advice and would-be takeaways range from pure celebrity fodder to notably reasoned pieces that objectively seek to convey what marital dissolution is...
Interplay between custody/visitation and parental substance abuse
It has literally been intoned a million times, with its utterance underscoring what judges in Michigan and across the county view as a bedrock legal principle where children are concerned. That is this: Any outcome affecting children in a family law matter must...
