According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorces and annulments were provisionally counted in the United States at 672,502 for the year 2023, which translates ...

A complicated divorce situation is raising questions about property rights, financial dependency, and what really happens when a couple separates but still shares a home. Even when one spouse owned ...

Many people think divorce means they each can take half and walk away. But it doesn’t work like that. When a marriage ends in divorce, it is complicated to divide the property that the couple owned ...

MP McQueen is a veteran journalist who has covered national and metro news, and has written and edited articles for legal and financial publications. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading ...

Once married, spouses acquire a number of rights in and to the estate of the other spouse. Marital estate rights create the potential for catastrophic consequences should a spouse pass away at a time ...

In a community property state, the community assets and income of the non-debtor spouse can be liable for the judgments of the debtor spouse. This liability continues during the length of the marriage ...

Property division in a divorce depends on whether the state follows community property or common law rules. In community property states, most assets acquired during the marriage belong equally to ...