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How to Alleviate Stress During a Divorce

Divorce is just as much an emotional process as it is a legal one. While ending a marriage can be stressful and overwhelming, it’s essential to take time out to care for your mental health. Importantly, there are a number of ways you can combat str… Read More
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What is a Kinship Adoption?

There may be many reasons why a child cannot return to their birth parents — it could be due to death, incapacity, substance abuse, or the parents’ inability to care for the child. Kinship adoption is a way to provide a child with a stable and lo… Read More
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3 Practical Strategies for Prevention of Parenting Plan Problems

A parenting plan is a vital document for co-parents. It outlines how parents will share responsibilities and helps ensure the best interests of the child are being met. However, since it’s often difficult to streamline the schedules of two househol… Read More
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Common High Asset Divorce Issues

High-asset divorces are often much more complex than standard divorce cases. Not only can it be more difficult to divide a larger marital estate, but there are typically many complicated issues that must be resolved when one or both spouses are high-… Read More
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3 Tips for Protecting Your Credit in a Divorce

Everyone knows that divorce can be expensive. But when most people think of the costs involved in divorce, they are imagining legal fees or marital property that has to be divided with the other spouse. And while those may be significant, it’s impo… Read More
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Process of a Divorce Modification in New York

Divorce is one of the most significant life changes most people ever experience, but of course, that doesn’t mean life stops changing once a divorce is final. When you make your divorce settlement agreement, or present your evidence at a divorce tr… Read More
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3 Grounds for Seeking Modification of Child Support

If you have a court order for child support, that order could be in effect for many years, depending on your child’s age. And as every parent knows, when you have children, life rarely stays the same for very long. It only makes sense, then, that a… Read More
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New York Adoption Requirements

Adoption can be a wonderful way to start or expand your family. There are many ways to adopt, including through stepparent adoption, relative/kinship adoption, or private adoption with an attorney’s help. However you plan to adopt, you might be app… Read More
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A Guide to Co-Parenting After Divorce

Conflict is an unfortunate reality during the divorce process for most spouses who share children. However, the way in which you and your ex choose to move forward and parent will have a significant impact on your children’s lives. Although there i… Read More
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Differences Between Contested vs. Uncontested Divorce

If you’re thinking about parting ways with your spouse, you may be wondering what the differences are between a contested vs. uncontested divorce. The type of divorce will determine how your case moves forward and who decides the outcome. Criticall… Read More
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