Category: Divorce

Parenting Plans  Whenever a matter is before the court involving the parent(s) of a minor child with respect to the care, custody, education and upbringing of the child, the parents must file a Parental Responsibility Plan (Parenting Plan). At a minimum a proposed Parenting Plan must include: A schedule of the physical residence of the … Read More

Joint Petition for Non-Adversarial Divorce Parties with limited assets who have been married for no more than 8 years and have no children may take advantage of a streamlined non-adversarial approach to divorce by filing a joint petition, which can be granted within 30 days. The joint petition must be notarized and contain the following … Read More

Property Transfer in Divorce – It’s Complicated At the time of granting a divorce or legal separation the court can assign to either spouse all or any part of the property of the other. If the court judges it necessary to carry out the terms of its divorce decree, it may convey title to real … Read More

Streamlining the Divorce Process – Non-Adversarial Divorce In an attempt to make the divorce process more accessible and more streamlined for parties with a relatively short marriage, a simple asset picture and no children, and who agree on all aspects of the divorce, the court has adopted a Non-Adversarial Divorce procedure.  Parties seeking a Non-Adversarial … Read More

Common Traits of Happy People “Happy” according to Dictionary.com, one of the many meanings of this word is “characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy.” Among the various definitions in Merriam Webster: “effective, or well adapted; enjoying or characterized by well-being and contentment.”  The word has been in the English lexicon since the … Read More