Michigan's statutes generally classify all income earned during a marriage as a couple's shared marital property. If an individual has reason to believe that a soon-to-be ex-spouse has hidden assets, the divorce process could uncover them. As reported by CNBC, a...
Divorce
How can social media posts complicate a divorce?
The end of any marriage is rarely easy, as both spouses must deal with some type of emotional fallout. While posting photos or messages to social media may be an easy way to find support or even to blow off steam, you must be careful not to allow your online presence...
What should you know about hidden assets?
As a person going through a divorce, you will soon have to deal with asset division. This is the combination and then division of your assets, which can include your annual income, side hustles and physical items or properties. Due to the high stakes during asset...
Will parallel parenting work for you?
Parallel parenting is one of many potential parenting options that you can take a look at when handling your post-divorce situation. It can provide you with a good transfer point between your marital life and your life after divorce. What is parallel parenting,...
Tips for maintaining privacy during divorce litigation
Michigan divorce proceedings encompass a variety of processes. They often include issues such as child support, custody and dividing property equitably. Working out the details can become frustrating if you or your spouse have ownership in a business and both of you...
Business buyouts and divorce
Divorce is a complicated legal process. For a couple lacking business partnership, the process is relatively straightforward. What happens for couples who are also business partners? What happens to their business during or after the divorce? While there aren’t laws...
Post-divorce relocation with children: some focal points
It’s quite possible that the execution of your Michigan divorce decree spelled the end of a contentious and highly negotiated process. That would not be a rarity. Indeed, contested divorce is the norm in Michigan; legions of splitting couples have one or multiple...
Some considerations re divorce process duration
What is divorce like for Michigan couples involved in the process? That is a question that defies easy answers. Impending exes in some instances work through the details without much ado, managing to secure a post-divorce fresh start without much angst or contention....
Michigan divorce factors often multiple, varied
Here’s a straightforward query concerning marital dissolution in Michigan and nationally: What causes divorce? That’s a simple question, right? Yet it hardly invites a tailored response with across-the-board applicability. The truth is, very divorce is flat-out...
What is Michigan’s take on divorce-linked asset division?
Impending Michigan exes engaged in the divorce process run a broad and varied gamut of concerns. For many of them, negotiation focuses centrally on property. To wit: What are all the sources of marital wealth? How can assets be fully identified, accurately valued and...