Celebrity NASCAR driver Danica Patrick recently announced on Facebook that she was divorcing her husband of seven years. While she said in her announcement that the split was amicable, Patrick — the most successful woman in American racing history — could still potentially face many of the challenges typical of a high asset divorce. One […]
The IRS has some very interesting rules when it comes to reporting the income and assets of divorcing couples. To make it even more complicated, those rules are different in community property states like Wisconsin. The first thing to know before you check the “married” or “single” box on your tax return is that the […]
Many of the decisions and protocol parents need to follow regarding their children are addressed in the divorce decree and child custody/support orders. But there are certainly some events that no one can prepare for. Anger, bitterness, pride and different belief systems often get in the way of sound decisions when divorced parents have arguments about […]
A Wisconsin court recently decided that the ex-wife of a former Milwaukee fireman is entitled to 40 percent of his retirement pension beginning in 2001. The couple divorced after 24 years of marriage back in 1993. During that time, they worked with family law attorneys to draft a marriage settlement agreement. The agreement determined that […]
Society’s view of the “traditional” family — that is, father, mother, children — is of course a hot topic these days in family law, especially in wake of more and more states legalizing same-sex marriages. But another type of nontraditional family is often overlooked: the so-called grand family. More and more children these days are […]
The Wisconsin domestic partnership law has survived a constitutional challenge, at least for now. The law, passed in 2009, allows same-sex couples who share the same residence to register as domestic partners. Shortly after the law took effect, Family Action Wisconsin filed a lawsuit seeking to have domestic partnerships declared unconstitutional. The group argued the […]
Income is a key consideration in any divorce. Under Wisconsin law, both spouses’ incomes are factored into determining how much spousal maintenance or child support one spouse may be required to pay as it is a community property state wherein assets are divided equally. Substantial changes in income may warrant a post-divorce modification in alimony […]
When couples divide property in the process of negotiating a divorce settlement, they may find that one or the other has a life insurance policy with no cash value. In cases in which the family law judge has ordered the couple to divide everything equally, it is often difficult to determine the true value of […]
Newly divorced people in Wisconsin might be frustrated at having to keep up communication with their exes after they have dissolved their marriage. After all, that is part of the reason why some people choose to get a divorce, because they don’t want to be together anymore. However, if there are children or other affairs […]
While most married couples in Wisconsin or elsewhere do not assume that their marriages will end in divorce, same-sex married couples are finding that there may be obstacles in obtaining one. As a result, same-sex couples currently divorce only half as often as do heterosexual couples, but that may change as such marriages become more […]
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