What does one spouse owe another after a marriage ends? An Ohio spouse may be ordered to pay temporary or extended alimony to a former husband or wife. Financial need is the deciding factor, not gender, although ex-wives rather than ex-husbands traditionally have made...
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Month: July 2014
Columbus divorce marital home headaches and solutions
Homes provide a landscape for a marriage, where the majority of a couple's good and bad times play out. Some Columbus spouses feel holding out for a marital home is a way to preserve the best of a fading relationship during divorce. Sometimes spouses simply want to...
Ohio lawmaker fights for military parents’ child custody rights
No conflict with an ex over parental rights is easy, but some Columbus parents have a more difficult time than others. Try to imagine resolving a child custody or visitation dispute from a place from halfway around the world. That's a reality for some U.S. parents...
Rethinking retirement during a later-age Ohio divorce
Just as child-welfare concerns often dominate broken relationships of unhappy, young married couples, so do financial issues plague older divorcing spouses. Couples in the 50-plus age group are seeking divorce at twice the rate they were in 1990, according to an Ohio...