If you are still paying off federal student loans and you have a low income job, there is good news. A new law has changed to help married couples have lower monthly payments for student debt. The Income Based Repayment Program helps out people with student loans who also have lower paying jobs. The old version of the law, which…
If you and your spouse are considering divorce or separation, you might want to start monitoring your online activities. Increasingly, divorce attorneys, in-laws, and spouses are using online social networking sites to gather evidence. Don’t post compromising pictures. This is a good rule to follow in general, but is especially important during a divorce. If you have a new girlfriend…
1. Having high expectation’s for your spouses behavior. Just because your spouse was normally a fair and rational person does not mean that he or she will be during a divorce. 2. Expecting that you will get everything you want. There are probably many things which you and your spouse both have emotional ties to, and there are probably many…
A recent study entitled “Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too: Social Network Effects on Divorce in a Longitudinal Sample Followed for 32 Years” by social scientists at Harvard, Brown, and UC San Diego has found that divorce is “contagious.” In this context, contagious means that if you have a sibling who has undergone…