The process of going through a divorce can be traumatic for everyone involved.  If you are faced with divorcing your spouse, you should take your situation seriously and make sure you understand any family law guidelines that apply.

Custody of the Children

One of the most painful aspects of a divorce is the division of the family and children.  Whether there is a long drawn out custody battle for the children or if it is amicably agreed on in the beginning, there...

"Children are the worlds most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), 35th American President.

Unfortunately, this valuable resource is often compromised during a divorce, especially if they are the subject of a custody battle. As someone said, "Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression" , the effects of a hostile battle for custody can leave permanent scars on a childs...

One of the aspects of divorce that take some getting used to is this entire concept of alimony. To learn the ropes of how alimony spousal support law works, there are a few tricks of the trade to be aware of.  Sometimes the one who has to pay the alimony required after a divorce feels that the laws are there to victimize him. But the rules are there to protect both spouses so both are financially supported but neither is driven into bankruptcy by divorce spousal support.

Once...

The old saying that divorce is hardest on the kids is not just an empty phrase. For children, the home and the daily strong presence of mom and dad is their whole reality.  That home is all they have known since birth and when it is suddenly torn apart by divorce, that can turn into the biggest trauma of that child's life. So it is a good idea for both parents to think through how they will help the kids come out of the divorce process with a little negative impact as...

Those who can't take any longer their spouses due to some valid reasons may resort to filing a divorce to make things totally legal. The court of law will definitely honour those married people to be legitimately separated when they are officially divorced. It is indeed a sad thing to happen, yet it has to be done to avoid experiencing the worst between the couple. In connection to this, the government is tasked to make an up-to-date documentation on the Public Divorce Records for the...

When it is you that is going through a divorce, it seems like you are the only one to have ever faced this difficult time of life.  But experts tell us that the most common reasons for divorce are often the same from couple to couple.  If you go by the things people state in their official divorce papers as the top ten reasons people get divorced, that isn't very detailed information.  "Irreconcilable differences" covers a lot of ground.  But marriage...

Divorce is never easy on anyone. But if you can go the route of a cheap uncontested divorce, that cuts out a lot of the difficulty from the process.  It also cuts out a lot of the expense.  And when a couple finds that going their separate ways is the right thing for them, keeping the process simple and inexpensive makes it much less of an ordeal for both parties.  One way to do that is to take advantage of online divorce services. Two of the best of this type of online...

Texas law presumes that a standard visitation schedule will be followed in most cases for children age 3 and over. A judge can deviate from the standard schedule with good cause, and special allowances can be made for religious holidays.

Of course, parents can agree on custody arrangements that differ from the standard visitation schedule, and judges will almost always go along with their agreement.

Regardless of the visitation schedule written into the divorce decree,...

He'd been through a lot: defamation, death threats, harassment—civil and judicial. His children had been stolen from him, and he was an island. He's gone without gas and electricity and food, and people constantly took, took, took. But through thick and thin, he could never forget his daughters, and he always had their picture—the two of them. They were his kids. He'd seen them born, changed their diapers, fed them in the middle of the night, and had taken them on countless...

Among the states, California is said to be the biggest as far as population is concerned. Does that mean that it also has the most number of divorce cases? Well, that no one is sure of because unlike any other states, this particular state is not keeping track of its statistics on divorce cases. However, because of the imposed policy of the Freedom of Information Act, the state of California has its own storage of public records. One of the important public documents that can be found...