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Category Archives: Child Support
February 3, 2018
Should Your Spousal Support Increase with the Cost of Living?
Spousal support that lasts more than a couple years may be subject to cost of living adjustments (COLAs). This is negotiated as part of your divorce settlement. As the cost of living goes up, spousal support can increase as well, Continue reading…
September 21, 2015
The Collaborative “Team”: The Role of the Financial Neutral
Categories:
Alimony • Budgeting • Child Support • Divorce • Family Law • Finances and Divorce • Money and Divorce • Money and Finances • Taxes and Divorce
1The Financial Neutral often plays an invaluable role for the divorcing couple. Usually a Certified Financial Planner, and often also someone with the additional certification of Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, the Financial Neutral also has training specifically in the collaborative Continue reading…
September 15, 2014
The Collaborative Approach to Child Support
Categories:
Child Support • Children in Divorce • Collaborative Law • Divorce • Family Law • Money and Finances • Parents
How to provide financially for children after divorce has been a much-discussed topic for decades. Courts have traditionally used child support guidelines established by state government to calculate a monthly payment from one parent to the other. The Minnesota guideline Continue reading…
August 12, 2014
The Uncertainty of Paternity
Paternity matters in Minnesota courts are still treated as quasi-criminal. Reviewing the legal forms reveals that the parties are usually referred to as Plaintiff and Defendant, rather than Petitioner and Respondent, as is now used in divorce matters. Fathers are Continue reading…
December 19, 2013
How Do I Tell My Kids About Our Divorce?
Categories:
Child Support • Children in Divorce • Collaborative Law • Divorce • Family Law • Money and Finances • Parents
When parents think about divorce, thoughts often go to their children. How do we tell them? Will they adjust to having two homes instead of one? How will we pay their expenses? Will my ex and I be able to Continue reading…
August 15, 2013
3 Tips for How and When to Tell Your Spouse You Want a Divorce
Categories:
Child Support • Children in Divorce • Collaborative Law • Divorce • Money and Finances • Parents
Professionals who work with divorcing couples know that it is rare for couples to be at the same place in terms of deciding whether the marriage needs to end. In almost every case, there is one spouse who has taken Continue reading…
July 22, 2013
Top 5 Divorce Myths and Their Impact
Categories:
Child Support • Children in Divorce • Divorce • Domestic Violence • Family Law • Money and Finances • Separation
The myths and misunderstandings about divorce could make you act in ways that would hurt you in your divorce. Here are some of the most common myths and how actions based on those myths could impact the final divorce terms. Continue reading…
July 19, 2013
Deciding the Terms of Your Divorce
Marriage is a contract. Once you get married you have either wittingly or unwittingly agreed to a host of legal terms of a contract. The terms of this contract can even change because the laws change or even because people Continue reading…
June 17, 2013
Post-graduation Parental Support
Divorced or uncoupled parents of graduates will have a few extra issues to deal with. We hope they can plan the graduation party together and agree on who hosts it, who is invited, how the costs will be covered, etc., Continue reading…
