Blog Posts in June, 2014

• Posted By Demetria Graves 30-Jun-2014

  Waiting To Get Divorced? At Least Prepare These Four Things.

  Humans are creatures of habit. When they get into a groove, it's hard to get them to change. Unfortunately, that even goes for people unhappy in marriages. There are so many scary variables in the real world that sometimes it feels safer to stay, ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 30-Jun-2014

  Dwyane Wade's Ex Claims Cop Conspiracy

  The divorce proceedings between NBA star Dwyane Wade and his ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade are done, but that hasn't stopped Funches-Wade from going out and trying to right what she feels were wrongs during the episode. Specifically, she's ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 16-Jun-2014

  Halle Berry to Pay $16k in Child Support

  Halle Berry is many things — beautiful, Oscar-winning; model. Now, we can add child-support payer to the resume after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that she has to pay over $16,000 in child support each month to her ex, Gabriel ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 9-Jun-2014

  Domestic Abuse Now Grounds From Automatic Divorce in Louisiana

  For years, many women were too afraid or too overwhelmed to seek a divorce from abusive partners. Louisiana is one of the latest states —Arizona and Utah are the other two, with Oklahoma and Alabama laws being worked on now — to help ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 9-Jun-2014

  Frankie Valli Divorce Ruling Strengthens Calif. Community Property System

  California is one of the nine states that deems all property bought from a joint bank account during marriage, other than small personal items like clothing or jewelry, becomes community property. That rule was strengthened recently when singer ...

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• Posted By Demetria Graves 9-Jun-2014

  Divorce Takes Tolls Well After It Happens

  We've discussed on this blog the long-term ramifications of divorce: to finances, to young children and more. But what about the fall-out from a type of divorce that has been growing at an exponential rate — mature divorces? It seems like ...

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