Courts can employ all kinds of tricks to ensure that parents pay their child support on time. First, they can take the money straight from a parent’s paycheck each month. If that does not work, they can take the money out of their tax return. If the parent still is not getting the message, courts…
DetailsFor legal professionals who handle divorces, January can be a busy month. But why is there such a surge of divorce filings when the new year rolls around? Many factors may be to blame, and marriages often end due to a combination of things. However, the increased number of divorce filings in January is clearly…
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When most of us get divorced, we run the risk of losing the family home, the car, and perhaps the dog. When billionaires get divorced, they run the risk of losing assets equal to that of a small nation. Such is the case with Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, the second-richest man in all of Mother…
DetailsDivorce proceedings can become incredibly heated as all kinds of wild accusations fly across the courtroom. But can a divorce trial actually send people to prison? While this is always technically a possibility, the reality is that spouses rarely see the inside of a jail cell due to the outcome of divorce proceedings. If they…
DetailsWe have all heard the horror stories of parents being bankrupted by unreasonably high child support payments. Stories of fathers living in one-room apartments while their former spouse lives in a mansion with the kids. Tales of dads just barely scraping by and working three jobs to make their child support payments for their three…
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