Prenups a Growing Trend for Baby Boomers

As this story on the Today Show explains, more and more Baby Boomers entering a second or third marriage are considering prenuptial agreements, aka “prenups”.  The goal is to protect assets that the parties have worked their whole lives to build and...

Gray Divorce

As a recent article in the August edition of Money Magazine points out, the Tipper and Al Gore split up has highlighted the issues of “gray” divorces.  Gray divorce is the label given to divorces of couples that have been married 20 years or more. The...

What Is the Law?

When confronted with an oncoming divorce or separation, most clients instinctively and anxiously want to know “what the law is” in their case.  There are actually two answers to that question, one of which is rarely ever addressed by family law...

Hidden Damage of Divorce: Losing a Child’s Therapist

Some of the destruction of an ugly adversarial divorce is obvious:  tens of thousands in legal fees for each party, annihilation of the family finances, arguments, personal attacks, stress on the parents and kids, etc…We can all readily identify these known...