Divorce

Spouses often agree about every aspect of a divorce, including whether one is actually necessary or not. One spouse may have decided that the marriage is beyond repair, while the other would prefer to maintain the status quo. The spouse frustrated with the current...

Your children are inevitably going to find out about the divorce no matter how much you might wish you could shield them from it. As such, you should consider talking to them early and often. Divorce is often an evolving process, and kids need to be aware both of what...

You may have been told one or two things about keeping your marriage happy – because everybody seems to have some advice. However, people often don’t realize that many beliefs about what it takes to make a marriage work are misconceptions.  Here’s what you should...

As a general rule, divorce is becoming less common. Most age brackets have seen a reduction in divorce rates over the last few decades. It is true that there was, at one point, a significant rise in divorce rates, closely correlating to the switch to no-fault divorce...

If you’re in your 50s or older and considering divorce, you’ve got a lot of company. Many more empty-nester couples are deciding that they want to go into the “second act” of their lives on their own. That means that a lot of adults are dealing with parental divorce...

Married couples often share almost everything. They pool their income and share a residence, making almost all of their belongings marital property. Even if you bought it yourself without involving your spouse, both of you have an interest in your marital income and...

For automobile collisions, you need to know if you live in a fault or no-fault state. Kentucky falls into the no-fault category, which means that each driver’s personal injury protection coverage, or PIP, pays out to them after a crash regardless of fault. The...

In Kentucky, alimony, also known as spousal support, is the money that one spouse will pay to another due to a court-ordered agreement. This support isn’t always granted, but if you are in a position where you need financial support from your ex-spouse in the future,...

You want a divorce. Your marriage simply isn’t what you expected. You want to end it and start your life over, and you’ve discussed it briefly with your spouse.   However, they told you in no uncertain terms that they did not want a divorce. Perhaps they were against...

For most people getting divorced, it is their first time encountering Kentucky's divorce system. Even if some of your friends and relatives have gotten divorced before, you cannot really understand what it is like until you go through it yourself. This leads to myths...