Although it certainly doesn't denote commonplace behavior in most divorces, the actions of a spouse marked by a clear bad-faith impulse to materially hurt a partner financially are far from being aberrational in select marital dissolutions in Massachusetts and...
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Law Offices of Lisa A. Ruggieri
You want to keep your business intact following divorce. Can you?
There is a short and succinct answer to the above-posed headline query for today's blog post.And it is necessarily qualified, as such: maybe. Regular readers of our family law blog at the Wellesley , are frequently reminded that, where...
What promotes marital stability, drives divorce for 50-plus group?
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...
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...
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...
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...
