Every time you and your co-parent hand off your child to the other one, you seem to get into an ugly fight. Your child witnesses it, your neighbors hear it and it leaves everyone – particularly your child – anxious or depressed. Supervised custody exchanges may be the...
You may think that your teen's graffiti is simply an artistic expression. If they're bored, there are worse things they could be doing, right? The problem is that if their graffiti is on property that doesn't belong to you or on property they don't have the owner's...
The conventional wisdom about "children of divorce" is that they're more likely to get divorced themselves. Indeed, studies have found that divorce rates are higher for people with divorced parents than for those with married parents. Why is this? Speculation looks at...
People who are going through a divorce have to split up the property they've amassed during the marriage. This might seem like a straightforward process, but there are instances in which one person tries to hide assets from the other in an effort to walk away with a...
If you want to avoid getting into a car accident, the first step is to understand why these accidents happen. You can then avoid behaviors proven to lead to them. Often, you can identify risky behavior long before it actually causes a crash. For instance, one of the...
You have probably heard that gray divorce -- people who are 50 and older getting a divorce -- is on the rise. The reason given is often that it's a fairly new phenomenon, so the rate is increasing when other age groups have seen their rates level off. But is this...
If the police show up at your house with a warrant to search it, they will likely knock on the door, inform you of the warrant and tell you to open up. You are legally obligated to do so since they got the warrant from a judge, and police can, in many cases, force...
If you are a teacher by profession, you'll be used to prioritizing the needs of your students, and always looking after their well-being. A teaching career means that you always need to be present at your job and you'll need to effectively separate your private life...
It seems like just about every Fourth of July we hear about a massive fireworks display somewhere in the country that went horribly wrong and caused multiple serious injuries and even fatalities. In fact, these catastrophic incidents are rare. Multiple...
If you're getting divorced, you need to carefully consider all of the assets to which you have a right. One of the assets that is easiest to forget and yet potentially very valuable is your ex's pension or work-sponsored retirement fund. In cases where your ex earned...