PRACTICING FAMILY LAW
In Massachusetts For Over 30 Years
PRACTICING FAMILY LAW
In Massachusetts For Over 30 Years
Mediation offers a less contentious avenue for resolving your divorce. When you and your spouse maintain enough mutual respect to negotiate together, you might find that mediation is more affordable, less stressful and faster than litigating your settlement in court....
If you are like many Massachusetts couples facing divorce, you and your spouse may want to separate while minimizing personal conflict and extraordinary expense as well as emotional stress on your children. Both mediation and collaboration offer important alternatives...
After a long and arduous process to decide to start divorce proceedings, you may worry that the divorce itself will be just as frustrating. Choosing mediation during divorce can benefit both you and your ex-spouse. Using this technique successfully can help your...
Before you initiate a divorce in Massachusetts, it is important that you familiarize yourself with the state’s rules and options for the process. Doing so could save you significant time and headache in the coming months. In many states, mediation is mandatory first...
Choosing divorce mediation can help you to save time and money, but it also requires a different approach than if you were going through litigation. You will still need to prepare for entering mediation, but you will go into it with an attitude that focuses on...
There is more than one way to have a divorce. While the most popular version is still a trial divorce, more and more divorcing couples are choosing alternate means of a legal split. The two most common alternative divorces are "mediated divorce" and "collaborative...
While you and your current spouse agree that the two of you should divorce, you may find it difficult to sow seeds of peace during the process. Raw emotions could bring complex feelings to the surface, causing unintended stress and hardship for both of you. For a bit...
People move through different life changes after a divorce. One person might get into a serious relationship or remarry. Exes may change careers or start a new family. All of these may have some bearing on whether the payer can afford to keep distributing the same...
When your Massachusetts marriage comes to an end, you are undoubtedly going to need to take certain steps to untangle your life from that of your former spouse. You do not, however, have to engage in a knock-down, drag-out fight with your former partner to accomplish...
If you are going to court for any civil matter, which includes divorce and personal injury cases, you have alternative dispute resolution options in Massachusetts. This means that you have options outside of just going before a judge and having the judge decide your...