Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” I’m not getting along with my husband. We’ve been married two weeks and it was a mistake. Can’t I just get an annulment?” Last Tuesday, men who had divorced their wives provided, via the online…
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Polygamy ban upheld, but “Sister Wives” can still cohabit, call themselves “married”
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “Does adultery affect my divorce case?” Stars of the TLC reality show “Sister Wives” can return to their home state of Utah and live together without the fear of prosecution by the State for polygamy. Stars…
Elder law clinic confirms spike in elder divorces, explores causes
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” I’m considering separating from my spouse; what actions should I refrain from doing?” Larry Weiser, the director of Gonzaga University’s Elder Law Clinic, says all of the sudden, he is seeing older people wanting to…
Special considerations for couples older than 50 divorcing
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” Is there some property that the judge cannot divide?” It used to be that if a couple made it far enough down the road of marriage, they’d be especially likely to stick it out, literally,…
Most marriages are happy and divorce rate is closer to 20 percent, says author
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” I’m not getting along with my husband. We’ve been married two weeks and it was a mistake. Can’t I just get an annulment?” Sometimes what “they” say is not good enough because “they”—whoever “they” are–don’t…
19-year-old says she is remarrying her 54-year-old ex-husband
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “What does uncontested divorce mean?” Consenting to your wife’s divorce so that she can go “experience other men” may not seem like a normal thing to do, but little in the now-rekindled romance between 19-year-old Courtney…
Study tries to explain why marriages with first-born daughters more often end in divorce
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “My wife and I are not getting along If I leave the house, can she get me for abandonment?” The least complicated—and least controversial—aspect of a new study of possible causes of divorce is the recitation…
Correlation found between social media usage and divorce; causation not established
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” I’m not getting along with my husband. We’ve been married two weeks and it was a mistake. Can’t I just get an annulment?” Users have known for months—maybe longer—that Facebook lets you see if any…
Not all divorces are forever—Lebron remarries his hometown team
Matthew R. Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question “How can an attorney help me with my Divorce or Separation in North Carolina?” When Lebron James announced on live television that he was taking his talents to South Beach, he set off a very public and very intense…
Second time around not sweeter for Pamela Anderson, Rick Salomon
Board Certified Family Law Specialist Matt Arnold of Arnold & Smith, PLLC answers the question ” I’m considering separating from my spouse; what actions should I refrain from doing?” Unlike the singer in Shalamar’s 1979 hit “Second time around,” Rick Salomon couldn’t make his second marriage to Pamela Anderson “so much…