How a Business Owner’s Assets Are Divided During Divorce
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, the world’s richest person, is getting divorced from his wife, MacKenzie Bezos, of 25 years. There is much speculation about how the couple’s immense assets, totaling $135.6 billion, will be divided. Whenever a married couple gets divorced, asset division is [...]
Divorced Parents with Difference of Opinion Regarding Vaccinations
Vaccinations have been around for a long time. They protect against a variety of illnesses ranging from deadly, such as measles, to moderate, such as the flu virus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that 21 million hospitalizations and three-quarters of [...]
Can Child Support be Increased to Pay for Private School?
Education is taken very seriously in San Jose. Over 40 percent of San Jose residents have a bachelor's degree or higher, and over 25 percent have some college or an associate’s degree. Some parents believe that private school is a better option for their [...]
Is Your Wealthy Spouse Fighting Your Fair Alimony Request?
After years of supporting your wealthy spouse with their business or career, by taking care of the children, or by homemaking, by initially paying for their education or providing them the capital necessary to get started, or by doing all of the above and [...]
How Health Insurance Is Affected by Divorce
The status of healthcare in America is such that many divorcing couples are actually postponing their divorce plans in order to allow one of the spouses continuing access to the other’s employee group health care plan, as reported by Time. While pre-existing conditions no [...]
New California Pet Custody Law
In a recent study, researchers asked participants who they would save if a runaway bus was hurtling out of control towards their dog or another human being, as reported by Psychology Today. The majority of participants chose to save their dog over a “foreign [...]
New Restrictions for Minors Marrying
There is no age limit to marry in the state of California. However, there are new restrictions that have been put in place to help reduce the number of unwanted underage marriages that have been forced upon the minors by their parents or others. [...]
Reasons to Have a Marriage Annulled
Regardless of certain cultural and religious backgrounds, marriages do not always work out, even if a religion forbids or strongly discourages divorce. In these circumstances, having the marriage annulled (essentially erased) may be more desirable than a divorce. The benefits of an annulment include [...]