Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Thursday, August 4, 2016. When a person notices that a friend or someone in their family is going through a general type of life experience they have also gone through, like a divorce, one of their first inclinations might be to provide advice based on their own experience. So, one thing divorcing individuals may get a lot of over the course of their divorce is advice from friends and family members who have gone through a divorce. Such advice can sometimes be of great help. Other times though, such advice could create a

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Monday, August 1, 2016. A person’s employment situation can affect many things. According to a recent study, one of the things it may impact for men is their divorce likelihood. In the study, which looked at well over 6,000 heterosexual couples, the divorce chances (for the following year) of men who were employed full-time were compared with those of men who were not. The study found that the estimated divorce likelihood of the men who did not have full-time employment exceeded that of the men who had such employment by around a third.

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Thursday, July 28, 2016. Who wants what property-wise can play an enormous role in divorce negotiations/proceedings. Sometimes, both spouses will strongly desire to keep a certain piece of marital property. For some types of property, one option that might be available in such a situation is to physically split the property, so each person gets some of it. Other types of property though generally can’t be physically split. Houses fall into this category. However, a new housing design that has come up in Europe seeks to change this. The design is referred to as “Prenuptial

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Friday, July 22, 2016. Most readers are probably aware that, when it comes to property division, different states have different rules. A small group of states utilize an approach to property division known as “community property,” which generally involves an equal division of marital assets. Most states, including Missouri, use an approach generally referred to as equitable distribution. Under the language of Missouri’s property division statute, courts “divide the marital property and marital debts in such proportions as the court deems just after considering all relevant factors.” There are a variety of factors listed

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Divorce on Thursday, July 14, 2016. A divorce is a major time of transition in a person’s life. All sorts of big and key things can be in flux and shifting during the course of ending a marriage. In this time of great change, mistakes can have ramifications that are very long-lasting in nature. This includes financial mistakes. Financial missteps in the time right after one split’s from a spouse can put a person in a tough spot money-wise as they are trying to get their life off to a new start. A rough financial