Imagine this sad, but all too possible, situation. You are married with four, five, six kids. You have a will — that you and your spouse created a decade and three kids ago! Your younger children’s names are nowhere on your will. They would get left out of anything should something happen to you or…
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…
We deal in change. Almost all of our clients come to us to effect a significant change in their lives – adoption, separation, divorce, and more. These changes are almost always positive – regardless of how it seems at the time. But changes like those we work on everyday necessitate other changes. The most important…
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…
Lucy Langhanke – you’d have to be into movies in a pretty unhealthily obsessive way to know that that’s the real name of the great ’30’s- ’40’s actress Mary Astor. Mary Astor is best remembered for a handful of things – playing Brigid O’Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon, winning an Academy award for The Great…
Ever have a conversation like this: Of course you have. We all have. When it’s a private conversation or a couple of minutes of a fake documentary for a fake heavy metal band it can be amusing or a bit frustrating, not much more. Incomprehensible logic is funny when it’s Christopher Guest and Rob Reiner and…