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When you get married, there are well-known websites like TheKnot.com to guide you through the planning process. When you have a baby, you’ll probably get three copies of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting”. What about when you get divorced? Sure, you’ll have plenty of family members, friends, and other concerned parties clamoring to offer up their two cents when ...

No sane person wants to spend years or even months muddling through an extended divorce — but not many people are terribly clear on what can be done to speed things up. Here’s the best advice Gucciardo Family Law has for people who want an expedited divorce in a state that doesn’t have those laws. Investigative Cynicism The single biggest ...

A December article in the ABA Journal came to a fascinating and dangerous conclusion recently: they determined that spying on your spouse by putting an auto-forward on their email account (so that you automatically receive copies of emails sent to them) is a violation of the Federal Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act. The idea that spying on your spouse is ...

Divorce is a large, scary subject that intimidates most people who have to experience it. But while every divorce is complicated and some are downright frightening, it’s often more a matter of facing the unknown than anything else. So we at Gucciardo Family Law thought it might help if we offered a short summary of the divorce process at a ...

Sometimes, a divorce filing comes out of the clear blue sky, and the only warning you have is the phrase “you’ve been served.” But more often than not, you know. You might not want to admit it, but you know. Unfortunately for many, that desire to avoid admitting the end is near keeps them from taking important steps that can ...

According to an extensive study by Alexandra Killewald of the University of Michigan, for couples who married before 1975, the leading factor that led to divorce was a wife who was burdened with too much housework. Since 1975, however, the leading factor has been a downward shift in the husband’s earning ability. The leads to an interesting question: how exactly ...

Contract law is a fascinatingly complicated thing, with hundreds of rules that dictate what is allowed and what isn’t. There are several rules devoted entirely to determining which of your rights you are allowed to waive. For example, you  cannot waive your Constitutional right to free speech, and thus give the government permission to censor you. When two private entities ...

In a statistical sense, there is a correlation between age and wealth. In other words, the tendency is that people who are wealthier are older, and people who are older are wealthier. It makes sense: people who have had more time to save up…will tend to have more saved up. But there’s a specific time in a person’s life when ...

Buying property is generally a fairly stressful prospect even when everything goes as well as can be expected. Buying property while you’re in the middle of a divorce is kind of like deciding, while your plane is spiraling out of control toward the treeline, that it’s the right time to tell your boyfriend that it’s not his baby. Sure, you ...

Today’s Infrequently Asked Question is straightforward: “Do I have to go through all of the rigmarole with the Friend of the Court?” The answer, some of you may be relieved to hear, is “No,” but of course in the legal world, it’s never that  simple. Why Opt Out of the Friend of the Court’s Services? The Friend of the Court ...