Family-focused researchers, demographers, policy makers and academics seem to have an unending fascination with quantifying divorce through data-churned analysis and statistics intent on rendering it ever-more understandable.And predictable. That latter goal is...
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Year: 2017
Many factors can weigh in on divorce, including politics
Our readership is, we note well, the antithesis of an audience that makes snap judgments and is generally uninformed on material matters that broadly affect Americans in fundamentally important ways.We know that Massachusetts residents from across the state who read...
High-asset divorce: not always just a matter of degree
Just as there is typically some commonality featuring among divorces, there are just as assuredly marked differences owing to the organic and unique nature of every relationship.One common misconception held by many people in Massachusetts and elsewhere is that, while...
Divorce and retirement: an introduction to QDROs
Most couples who have been married for long periods of time have invested large amounts of time, effort and expense in their relationship. This process of creating a life together generally combines their emotional and financial assets. However, having large amounts...
Truly, work on that communication if you’re divorced and have kids
Clarion call to all divorced parents who, while loving their kids to an inestimable degree, couldn't stand their former partner in the months prior to dissolution and still feel the same way now: suck it up.It's not about you. Not even remotely. After all, you and...
Court rulings lining up in favor of same-sex couples
To say that progress for same-sex and other so-called "nontraditional" families in Massachusetts and across the country has been steady and problem-free in family law matters would of course be a flatly fantastic statement not remotely grounded in reality.In fact,...
Fair property division in divorce: evaluating claim of “genius”
Massachusetts courts and those in most other American states employ a so-called "equitable property division" scheme when evaluating how marital property should be distributed in a divorce.For myriad reasons (especially in a high-asset decoupling involving multiple...
Phenomenon: reports of spiking marriage applications, prenups
In recent months and in multiple places across the country, city clerks have been noting amped-up numbers relevant to marriage license applications.The Boston Globe reports, for example, an impressive 20-percent jump in license filings between last November and the...
Multiple divorce-related considerations spotlighted in court case
Some divorces in Massachusetts and elsewhere seem to be predominantly focused upon a single matter above all others (say, for example, parenting time/visitation or property division, respectively). Others, conversely, feature multiple and interacting considerations,...
What you were used to: Is that still applicable post-divorce?
We suspect that many of our readers across Massachusetts occasionally see divorce-linked articles in the media that centrally focus upon some opulence-related tangent.That is, tabloid offerings definitely tend to stress what might reasonably strike many people as...
