You and your spouse have decided that you no longer can live together, but you are unsure about the way forward. Legal separation? Divorce? You do not know what the difference is or how to do either. In this article, we briefly talk about each of them and help you better understand the way forward....
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If you and your spouse are going to file for divorce and you have children, one of the most important things to do first is to create a mutually agreeable parenting plan. You may be unsure of how to create a parenting plan prior to a divorce. This article will give you some guidance and...
Getting divorced will likely be very emotional and stressful. Even if you are only considering it, the stress of finding a good divorce lawyer to help and advise you can be daunting. Obviously, trust and discretion are important factors, but so are results. How do you choose a divorce lawyer when there are so many...
Written with my friend and colleague, Jenny Bradley of Triangle Smart Divorce in Cary, North Carolina. As family law attorneys, we’re asked a lot about ‘what sort of person don’t we want as a client’. There’s a few potential answers, of course, but one type of personality is almost always at the top of the...
A little over a week ago we published a blog piece about a great David Bowie song, Putting Out the Fire. We included a clip from Inglorious Basterds where it was used to memorable effect. Right away we posted it, something else hit us. Inglorious Basterds featured one of Brad Pitt’s best roles, Aldo Raine,...
A little while back there were a series of movies that explored unintended consequences. Films like Crash, Magnolia, Traffic, Babylon, all somewhat based on the theme that a series of random events come together over time to seamlessly intersect and effect, profoundly, the protagonists’ lives. These films were critically acclaimed for the most part and certainly...
You might remember that just before Thanksgiving we published a blog piece about HBO’s new show Divorce. We wrote that they really seemed to be getting a lot right – from the emotions, to counseling, to, well, the mechanics of the whole process. That was after three episodes. Now we’re deeper into the series and...
There may be a spoiler or two below if you’re concerned at all with the narrative arc of HBO’s new show, Divorce. I’m in it more for the feel, the emotions, and the occasional right-on little detail that I see almost every day in my practice. I started watching HBO’s Divorce a week or so...