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Divorcing? Break the news to your car insurer, too

Question: When a married couple gets divorced, do they have to report the divorce to the car insurance company? Also, does it change the rates they pay? Answer: Yes, if you and your spouse have divorced you need to inform y [...]

Posted On : Apr, 04 2012 | Comments : 0

Divorcing Women: Don't Make These Five Costly Mistakes

Over the past year, my blog posts here have been devoted to helping women better understand the steps they need to take so they can emerge from divorce in the best financial shape possible. Today, I want to take a different tack and discu [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

11% rise in divorcing couples sharing pensions

Sweet & Maxwell, the legal publisher, says there was an 11 per cent rise in the number of pension-sharing orders made by courts in the past year alone. In total, more than one in 10 financial settlements ordered by judges after spouses sp [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Italian Man, 99, Divorcing Wife of 77 Years Over 60-Year-Old...

This year has been filled with its share of sudden and surprising divorces in the entertainment and political world, but this split may take the cake. A 99-year-old Italian man filed for divorce from his 96-year-old wife of 77 years [...]

Posted On : Dec, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

How Can a Divorcing Woman Get the Child Support, Alimony She...

Even though child support and alimony payments are spelled out in explicit detail as part of divorce settlement agreements, most divorced women and children don’t receive the money they are owed. In fact, according to the most re [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

End-of-the-Year Checklist for Divorcing Women

Most women wait until after the holidays to move forward with their divorces –and that’s completely understandable. Many don’t want to disrupt family traditions for their children. Some welcome the distraction offered by [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Divorcing the rabbinate

Whenen Leah and Omer Katz got married last month, they signed an agreement for mutual respect as an addendum to their ketubah, or marriage contract. It says that if they choose to divorce, they will not apply to a state-sanctioned rabbini [...]

Posted On : Nov, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Why I (and, I suspect, many separated women) regret divorcin...

Last weekend, at a family wedding in the country, I was overwhelmed by an emotion that has, in the last year, become only too familiar to me. Sitting in a stifling marquee, listening to my cousin Sally's husband making the tradition [...]

Posted On : Jul, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Video offers advice to divorcing parents

A new video created by the state's Judicial Branch is urging divorcing parents to set aside their own concerns and settle their disputes out of court for the benefit of their children.Two Superior Court judges got tired of wielding Solomon' [...]