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A case earlier this year in Texas highlights a little-known immigration clause when it comes to divorce, according to Fox News. When Evangelina Zapata married Steve Summers, he signed an affidavit “vowing to support her so that she would not become a ‘public charge,’” Fox reports. Zapata was born in Mexico, and Summers needed to sign the affidavit as part…
In the midst of all the tumultuous emotions connected to divorce, there’s also the anxiety about breaking the news of your divorce to family, friends, and members of the community who might need to know. At a bare minimum, without know how to broach this situation, you might find yourself in some awkward situations. Knowing how to prepare yourself for…
Often, the question of how a divorce differs from an annulment arises. Put simply, a divorce is a legal process that results in the marital bonds being severed. An annulment, on the other hand, is a legal process that results in the marriage being invalidated, as though it never existed in the eyes of the law. In today’s society, divorces are by…
A new study has found that those individuals with more brothers and sisters are less likely to divorce when compared with children who have only one or two siblings. The research explores whether the number of siblings a child has influences their likelihood of divorce in adulthood. The results of the study are certainly an advertisement for larger families that…
Going through a divorce is a hard enough thing to do on its own, throw children into the mix and it can become an extremely stressful situation. Many people give advice on what to say to your kids when telling them about your divorce, “I will always love you”, etc. However, not many people know what you should not say…
The cost of divorce doesn’t always just refer to the price tag for an attorney’s services. Especially for marriages in which one spouse was the primary earner, the process of sorting out the financials is difficult and sometimes complicated. Oftentimes women get stuck with a financial burden that’s too much to bear. Knowing what to do before a divorce is…
There are several reasons to get divorced. There are money issues, varying degrees of interest in starting a family, arguments about lifestyles and social events, and differences regarding where to live and what expectations are of a spouse. And yet there’s one disagreement in which it’s more difficult to find compromise than the rest—regarding each other’s sexual preferences. According to…
Divorced parents may wonder whether their adolescent children behave the way they do because they are just at that age or because of the divorce. The truth is that it may be both, according to an article in the Huffington Post. The teen years are a time when many kids start to become independent and establish an identity for themselves.…
One of the biggest happenings in the news this year is the Supreme Court addressing the issue of same sex marriages. However, according to My FOX Houston, states that do not support same sex marriage are having to address issues of same sex divorce. When different states across the nation were passing laws making same sex marriage legal, same sex…
While it’s a common fact that divorce rates have been on the rise since the 1950s, it’s been several decades, according to the Huffington Post, since Americans have done much to curb the consequences of divorce on families. It was for the reason, reports the Huffington Post, that in 2001 interested parties “launched the Coalition for Divorce Reform (CDR), a…