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...
Bloomfield Hills Michigan Family Law Blog
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...
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,...
Protecting your business as a divorcing Michigan spouse
You’ve unquestionably got some valid concerns if you are a divorcing Michigan spouse who just happens to own a successful business. We prominently note those concerns at the established Michigan family law firm of Hauer & Snover in Bloomfield Hills. We underscore...
Relevant considerations for older divorcing couples
“Until death do us part” is still uttered as a vows-ending mantra in legions of Michigan marriages and other betrothals across the country. But it doesn’t command quite the clout and “never deviate from this directive” force it once had, does it? Readers need do...
Key points concerning Michigan spousal support (alimony)
It is of course not uniformly the case that divorcing Michigan spouses exit their marriages on a financially equal footing. Notwithstanding that state law mandates a fair division of assets between splitting partners, one divorcing spouse sometimes has a financial...

