Feature Article #1
Collaborative Divorce: A Way Forward
Collaborative divorce offers the confidence that comes along with having a lawyer during divorce and the relief of avoiding confrontational divorce.
Both parties hire lawyers and those divorce lawyers represent just the single client’s interest during the divorce. Most of the time, a collaborative divorce ends in a satisfactory settlement, often accomplished with the help of [...]
Feature Article #2
Our Focus: Divorce (Dissolution of Marriage)
A divorce (called a dissolution of marriage by lawyers and judges) is the legal process for ending a marriage.
Issues that are often addressed during a divorce are: custody of the children of the marriage, parenting time, child support, who pays for health insurance for the children, division of debts, division of property (including retirement [...]
Feature Article #3
Our Focus: Divorce & Retirement Accounts
Either through agreement or decision of the court, your divorce should address the issue of retirement accounts.
In a divorce, the court has broad authority to arrive at a just and proper division of the spouses’ retirement accounts.
Retirement accounts can raise complex issues, including valuation and vesting, and even the process of dividing retirement accounts can [...]
Feature Article #4
Our Focus: Sorting Out Custody in Divorce
Custody is the answer to the question “Who will make major decisions regarding the child?”
These major decisions could include religious training, health care, education, and where the child will live.
Feature Article #5
Our Focus: Divorce & Child Support
In Oregon, the amount of child support is generally set using a series of calculations based on income, parenting time, medical expenses, and childcare expenses. In many cases, spouses will be able to calculate an appropriate child-support amount without the aid of attorneys in cases where earnings are fully reported on payslips and W-2s.
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