In today’s mobile society, it is becoming increasingly common for individuals to have two or more residences – often in more than one state. Many people work in one state – spending their week days and night in one city – then go “home” to another state for the weekend. In other cases, one spouse...
Property
Although marriage may be a matter of the heart, divorce is very much a legal matter. Like any legal matter, it involves lots of paperwork. The type and amount of paperwork depends on where you live, as divorce is a matter of state law. This means every state handles the particulars of divorce a little different....
Simply put, spouses do not always share the dirty details of their purchases or finances with one another. Sometimes, an omission is a genuine oversight, and sometimes, it is done intentionally in an effort to avoid a fight over an expense one spouse may not consider worthwhile. While hiding assets is sometimes done innocently, it may be...