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One of the most often combative issues in a divorce is separating assets – who gets what? If you can provide a current and complete list of the assets and other financial information for you both, your attorney will have a huge leverage negotiating issues such as alimony, child support, and division of property in your settlement.

ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) is a method of settling civil disputes without the need for a courtroom. Several advantages are available to disputing parties who can utilize ADR. First is the cost. Anytime two parties can settle any dispute out of court, the costs are substantially less.

Almost all divorces (but certainly not all!) end with some bitterness, sense of loss, sense of failure and regret. There is not much good that comes after the divorce is final. If you have been married for many years, you are in certain habits, and used to living a certain way – like which side of the bed you sleep on!

So you have had a car accident, or you are arguing with your neighbor, or maybe you are working on your estate planning – how do you know when you need a lawyer to help?

In a previous article, we provided a definition of collaborative divorce as an agreement between the spouses and their lawyers that they will all meet to discuss and work through the any divorce issues thus saving the costs and issues with a court.

In the simplest terms, a collaborative divorce is an agreement between the spouses and their lawyers that they will all meet to discuss and work through the any divorce issues thus saving the costs and issues with a court.

So you caught your spouse cheating and now you want to file for divorce. In the eyes of the laws, a spouse having a sexual relationship outside the marriage is adultery. At New Mexico Financial Law, we have helped in many of these cases.

Collaborative Law is designed to resolve family and other disputes, without the aid of the courts, in a fair and respectable manner. Both parties hire their own Family Lawyers to advise and assist in negotiating an agreement.

If there in one thing essential to businesses it is contracts. Contracts are the glue that hold together deals, agreements, and understandings between partners, other businesses. Contracts hold people accountable and when they are breached, real damage can be done.

The divorce judgment, made by the court, and also referred to as the divorce decree, is a legal court order and must be followed by all parties involved. Unfortunately for whatever reasons, these orders are not always as strictly adhered to as one of the parties would like. In fact, some are ignored altogether.