Tweet Share What about now? I rarely see a home with equity. Most homes are upside-down, often having a first mortgage and a second mortgage or a home equity loan with the value of the house being much less than what is owed. What do we do in this situation? I have told clients in …
Monthly Archive: August 2011
Aug
31
Lee Block: Hello, My Name is Divorce
Tweet Share It’s a new school year, which means seeing lots of new faces and faces that I might not have seen in a long time. One such face walked up to me and said the prerequisite “Hello,” and before I could even say hello back, she went on to say, “I am divorced.” Not …
Aug
31
WATCH: Couple Split Up To Save Marriage
Tweet Share Tuesday’s “Today Show” featured a couple who split to save their marriage. Jeanine and Mark Earnhart separated after 35 years or marriage, only to reconcile shortly thereafter. Their time apart taught them how to better communicate, and they gradually began dating again. Now, after 42 years of marriage and one almost-divorce, the Earnharts …
Aug
31
China Reinterprets Divorce with Negative Impacts for Women
Tweet Share (Reuters) – After Jia Lin divorced twenty years ago, his wife got both house and son, leaving the Beijing cook with little more than a fresh start. Stepping into the divorce registration office two decades later to retrieve his records, the stooped 51-year-old said the fate of his house could be very different …
Aug
30
How To Avoid Back-To-School Blow-Ups: 11 Essentials From Our Divorce Experts
Tweet Share Co-parenting during the summer can be hellish (ever tried coordinating vacation schedules with your ex? It can require strategic abilities Napoleon would have admired). But if there’s anything more crazy-making for divorced parents, it’s sending kids back to school post-split. Whether the divorce happened long ago or since the school year wrapped last …
Aug
30
Rafael Nadal Talks Parents’ Divorce In New Book
Tweet Share In our darkest and loneliest moments, our families are what should keep us going. When they are out of reach, memory takes us back to the beautiful moments we have shared. In that instant, life proceeds. Our families are our places of safety. So divorce can have a crippling effect on family dynamics. …
Aug
30
What Happens When An Empty Nest Triggers Divorce?
Tweet Share NEW YORK (MainStreet) — The overall divorce rate in the U.S. may be dropping, but according to a study by Bowling Green University, the divorce rate for those 50 and over has doubled in the past two decades.
Aug
29
Divorce no longer greatest threat
Tweet Share According to research just released by the National Marriage Project, divorce is no longer the greatest threat to family stability and child well-being.
Aug
28
King 5 TV Reports Trish Conlon Case
Tweet Share On August 25th, King 5 TV reports on the Trish Conlon Case. Trish is trying to keep her kids away from a woman who killed her own children. Tsai Law Company’s Todd DeVallance talks about how he would like to have an evaluation done and how an investigation should be conducted to make …
Aug
28
Local Pet Custody Case Left to the Kids
Tweet Share A local Kirkland man Paul Wu found himself in the middle of a local pet custody case when he found an small dog wandering in his yard with an anonymous heartfelt note from a child around his neck. Please take care (or find him a new home?) of Mr. B. He is a King …