Divorce

If you have children, divorce is merely the first step in your new living arrangement. It is likely that you will be in a joint custody situation with your ex-spouse after you finalize the divorce.  Traditionally, the children move between households after a divorce....

If you have a life insurance policy and you are going through a divorce, it may be easy to forget to remove his or her name from your policy afterward. In some states, this can have devastating effects if you pass away and your ex-spouse is still a beneficiary on your...

If you are like most married people, you and your spouse have some amount of joint debt. This might be in the form of a mortgage, a vehicle loan, a credit card or something else. When you plan to get divorced, you'll need to figure out what to do with this joint debt....

People in Texas spend years planning for their retirement, all the time assuming that their spouses will spend those years with them. It goes without saying that divorce impacts those plans significantly. Yet that impact may go beyond one's companionship during their...

The end of a marriage will always produce some feelings of loss as it was an important relationship. If you find it especially difficult, it can help to look at the process of moving on and getting past it as you would any other significant loss.  Money Crashers...

Anyone who has ever been in a marriage that seems to be coming toward an end knows the feeling of having more questions than answers about the entire experience. After all, a divorce is one of the most life-altering events a person will likely ever go through. A...

Same-sex marriage has been legal in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it as a constitutional right in 2015. With the legalization of same-sex marriage came the reality of same-sex divorce. Like many heterosexual married couples, couples in a...