During a divorce, most spouses tend to focus on retirement accounts associated with employment or IRAs opened during the marriage. Too often, spouses tend to…
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Divorce can be a costly endeavor. Whether you initiate the proceedings or not, you will need to retain the services of an attorney. Further, it…
One of the most stressful aspects of divorce involves the financial uncertainty of the process. What property will I receive? Will I receive any maintenance?…
Many people have retirement benefits, like a 401(k), through their employment. Others have individual retirement accounts (IRAs). What happens to these accounts in the event…
The holidays are over, the new year has begun, and many people think—time to get divorced?! As these articles in the New York Times and…
How does Missouri handle calculating child support when a parent may be unemployed or underemployed? In Missouri, courts must calculate child support using a worksheet…
Missouri has a public policy that favors joint legal and joint physical custody. However, at the moment it is not the default legal position, only…
When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect at the end of 2017, it contained some significant changes to the child tax credit….
Before the current Uniform Dissolution of Marriage Act adopted by Missouri in the late 1970s, Missouri law clearly favored women as custodians of younger children…
It is that time of year when kids finish school and winter break begins. Holidays can be stressful for all families, but for kids in…