Are you feeling relieved after divorce or cheated? After many divorces people feel happy while in many rather more cases they feel cheated. Why? Divorce it self is a very painful process and the times that lead to divorce are more painful. The question is why get the sense of feeling cheated after getting divorce? Let us talk about this.

Relationship demands giving- People give a lot to their marriage; most of them do it except few. Right from the development of relationship, a...

Now you’re lonely. Probably this is unusual and very painful for you. Your loved has recently been together with you. But break up has led to the end of your relationship. Now you have more “physical” freedom but have lost the happiness and the joy of your life after break up.

So you want to figure out how to get over a breakup. This event has been sad and sudden for you both. Now you’re in deep despair, feel confused and hopeless. You want only one...

Moving on after a relationship break up is not easy for some. Psychologists say that going through a relationship breakup, is like going through the grieving process. Well if you compare the two, you can see a number of similarities. In both cases, you are loosing someone you loved and psychologically, your mind is not willing to let them go. So you can get over a bad break up using similar principles like grieving.

It’s important to learn how relationships turn sour, and...

Statistics from the United Nations show a trend of rising divorce rates in many countries in recent years. The divorce rate has been high in many European countries and America, but now many Asian countries are catching up. The divorce rate in Korea, for example, is ranked third in the world.

Many factors influence the decision to divorce or separate. Some reasons commonly discussed in the literature include individual preferences, age, gender, cultural norms and social customs,...

A dad's' visitation rights in California, and in most other states for that matter, depend largely on whether they are married. Married fathers tend to have an easier time in exercising visitation rights than do unmarried fathers who may have to go through various legal processes to prove paternity and obtain a Court order granting them visitation rights.

Unless they obtain a Court order for visitation rights, a father to a child born out of wedlock has no rights to visitation. To...

Last week, I discussed low cost options for collecting past due child support, including filing a wage assignment with the Circuit Clerk where the only cost is a certified letter, or working with Missouri's Child Support Enforcement program (CSE), which charges a nominal $10/year.

A wage assignment is a great first step for anyone with a delinquent "ex", particularly one that's steadily employed for someone else. And, for the person with limited means needing...

It's 9:00 PM Sunday and your two girls were due back from their weekend with your "ex" three hours earlier. You've called and your former spouse says he/she will bring them back when he/she is "good and ready". You ask when that might be and the reply is "maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe never".

What should you do?

Although child abduction by a parent is rare, I always urge clients to be immediately proactive at the first sign that one...

Last week's column outlined what to do if your "ex" doesn't return your children at the time identified in your court order. In many cases, these delays are neither intentional nor malicious, but the product of poor time management. However, some ex-mates remain angry long after the divorce, venting their displeasure at every opportunity, and the weekly "hand-off" is an easy venue for making your life miserable.

As pointed out last week, you have a remedy if...

"I think my wife is having an affair. What should I do?" The man asking is in my office and thinking about a divorce. His wife's possible affair is one of several reasons.

I get this question frequently, from both men and women suspicious of how their spouse is spending their extramarital time. It is an important one to answer, but for far different reasons today than 25 years ago.

Back in the late 1970s, when I first began representing divorce clients, proving...

What is meant by the term "sole physical custody"? In this article I am going to:
- Define the term in detail.
- Ensure you're clued up as to how this term comes about in real court proceedings.
- Summarise all related court rulings and terminology that can arise in the dispute of sole physical custody between parents.

Naturally, the term relates to the broader theme of child custody. It is usually demanded when there's a dispute between the parents...