As a child, watching helplessly as the fabric of her family unraveled with each bang of the gavel, Ashley-Nicole Russell decided that she would change the way divorce was handled in America.   Present day, Russell has over a decade of ...

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The North Carolina Judicial Branch has published its first statewide “self-help packet” for couples who want a simple divorce. The new divorce packet is accessible online and provides guidance for people who want a divorce without claims for equitable distribution ...

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Attorneys working in matrimonial law have to deal with the equitable distribution of various properties, both real and personal. Sometimes working out the distribution is not too involved, but sometimes there can be a hitch in determining which party gets ...

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This is the third in a series of articles looking at how the aging of America’s population is affecting the practice of law. Divorce rates in the United States have been on a steady decline for decades, but one group ...

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    The ground rules for how trial courts should handle disputes over 529 Savings Plans in equitable distribution divorce proceedings were established in a North Carolina Court of Appeals opinion handed down Aug. 7. In a matter of first ...

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The massive new tax law passed by Congress contains a potentially nasty surprise for divorcing couples that could set off a race to get separation agreements finalized by the end of the year. Under current law, alimony payments count as ...

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Divorces can be bruising—not least of all for the attorneys involved. Frustration with the scorched-earth mentalities that often engulf them helped spur the development of collaborative law, a process in which lawyers seek to sap some of the emotional venom ...

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A contingency fee that an attorney earned from a case that settled after he had separated from his wife was neither deferred compensation nor divisible property, and thus not subject to equitable distribution in the attorney’s divorce, the North Carolina ...

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Miller v. Miller (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-115-17, 40 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Chatham County District Court (Lunsford Long, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Although the wife filed her complaint for a divorce from bed and board – which included ...

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Here’s a typical scenario: A spouse who owns a business walks into a family law attorney’s office looking for legal assistance for a divorce. The atmosphere is charged with emotion – mostly anger – and the discussion inevitably works its ...

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