Kenneth loved Cindy deeply. Yet, his self-doubt brought her great pain. Cindy could not keep any male friends. Kenneth eavesdropped on her calls and followed her around town. As time went by, Kenneth became more controlling. Cindy loved him but his love was fatal. Cindy was trapped in a suffocating relationship.

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Are you in a suffocating relationship? Do you exist in a jealous relationship? Your husband? Boyfriend? Girlfriend? Do you find yourself being...

We know from long experience that only collaborative divorce -- not old-style adversarial legal representation, and not a single mediator working with or without lawyers in the picture -- views divorce as a complex experience requiring advice and counsel from multiple perspectives if it is to be navigated well. Collaborative divorce prepares you to deal with the emotional challenges and changes associated with divorce and provides the resources that can best help you make a healthy...

If you think Your spouse is attempting to hide assets, what should you do?

The most important thing is to act, and become somewhat of a detective.  You should immediately start to gather documents, such as bank and brokerage statements, tax returns, escrow statements, even credit card and other :_Interview_with_David_Seror" target="_top" loan statements, all of which will show the pattern of income and expenses.

You should particularly be cognizant of documents that...

If you are a victim of domestic violence or if you know someone who is a victim of domestic violence you may not know what to do in this situation. If it is an emergency you may want to consider calling 911. If you feel trapped in an abusive relationship that involves domestic violence, know that there are many ways to get away from domestic violence. Here are some ideas for victims of domestic violence that are worth exploring.

First you may want to consider a way to get...

Unfortunately, the people who typically read my articles or visit my blog are not in the best or happiest of marital situations. Usually, they have or will be faced with talks of divorce and they're often the spouse who wants to save the marriage while the other wants to end it. I know from experience that this is a very difficult situation to be in – one in which you feel that you are constantly walking on egg shells and petrified of doing the wrong thing.

Often, your head...

Military divorce laws are definitely more complicated than a normal divorce.  Think about it.  The nature of the military is structured and regimented and to be a member of the military staff or married to one, you can have issues that are very complicated.  As a military member, you travel quite a bit and jurisdiction plays a major role.  Quite a few areas of law affect the military family that is divorcing more so than a regular civilian divorce.  Given the...

I realize that there are situations where both people are completely on board and ready to move forward with a divorce. But, these are not the situations about which I'm commonly approached. Instead, I'm usually contacted by wives whose husbands have indicated that they want to divorce (and some have even filed / served the papers), but the wives want to save the marriage.

They will often ask things like: "Do I have to go through with the divorce if I don't want to? Is there...

I often write about avoiding a divorce and saving your marriage instead. I often get emails from folks asking for what really is legal advice or strategies meant to thwart, slow, or cease the divorce. I'm talking about things like dodging being served, being late on answering legal documents, or "contesting" the divorce to ensure that the whole ordeal is a drawn out, slow process.

I understand that this strategy is meant to buy time in the hopes that your spouse changes...

Child law is different.By this I mean that the skills and attitude required in dealing with legal matters in a child custody battle require different skills than those required for a debt collection or litigation or road traffic accident might require.For this reason you will need to ensure that your child support attorney has..

1.Experience
Your child support attorney will need to be experienced in the whole area of matrimonial dispute, child custody and divorce. There...

Fathers visitations rightswill arise in circumstances where they do not win custody of the child and these visitation rights can be agreed with the custodial parent or arise as a result of a court ruling in circumstances where the parents have been unable to agree a parenting plan and access rights for the non custodial parent.

The first thing to recognize is that the court may prevent visitation right altogether for the father where the court decides that it is not in the...