Your divorce affects everyone in your family, including your children. You may wonder if there is a time in your children's lives when the divorce will have the least effect on them so you can time your filing to coincide with this stage of life. Unfortunately, there...
Year: 2022
These professions have the highest divorce rates
Many different factors help determine if your North Carolina marriage succeeds, and one variable that may play a role in how long your marriage lasts is the profession in which you and your spouse work. Research indicates that individuals who work in certain fields...
What is a small or simple estate?
Large estates will almost always have to go through probate as protection for the estate. Probate allows a judge to oversee the process of closing the estate and matters of the deceased. However, if you have a small or simple estate, then your family may be able to...
Will I have a residuary estate after I die?
The main goal of your estate plan is to ensure that your intended beneficiaries will receive what you want them to inherit from your estate. However, it is possible that you will have assets that might not go to any beneficiary and will create a residuary estate. A...
How can you successfully coparent with a hostile ex?
After a particularly hostile divorce, you may not know how to co-exist with your children's other parent. When co-parenting, you have to figure out a solution quickly to make the arrangement work. According to Psychology Today, your children need to see you and your...
Spousal support in North Carolina: What you should know
If divorce is something on your mind, whether you are the primary income earned in your marriage or not, you have likely considered how spousal support laws could impact you. Each state has its own laws on spousal payments. Here is some information on what courts in...
Will your spouse hide assets digitally?
A spouse may want to hide assets for numerous reasons, ranging from simple spite to genuine fear of one's financial situation. Regardless of the reason, it is still illegal. But that does not tend to stop determined people. In fact, in the age of the digital wallet,...
What can a trust accomplish that a will cannot?
A will is an important part of any North Carolina estate plan, but a will only does so much. While a will gives you a means through which to determine who you want to inherit your assets, you may be able to accomplish other important estate planning objectives by...
Who handles my estate upon my death?
Once you die, everything you own has to transfer ownership, but you will not be here to oversee the process. So, who will handle your estate when you are gone? The North Carolina State Bar explains that you can choose the person to take care of things for you or the...
How does technology help long-distance co-parents?
Technology has come a long way in a short period. These days, it is hard to find anything that does not have some sort of technological augmentation or involves technology in some part of the process. How does it help long-distance co-parents, though? Can it help grow...