If you are divorced or are going through a divorce, you might assume that receiving alimony and/or child support payments will qualify as income to refinance your current mortgage or get a new one. Unfortunately, you may discover that is not necessarily true. What you and others might consider income and what mortgage lenders consider qualified income may be two very different things.
Preparing for Divorce
Does Your Marriage Qualify for an Annulment?
In the simplest of terms, the difference between an annulment and divorce is that a divorce ends a marriage, while an annulment erases the existence of the marriage as if it never existed.
What Does it Mean When a Marriage Is Irretrievably Broken?
An irretrievably broken marriage means that one or both parties are claiming the relationship can’t be fixed and must end in divorce.
Protecting and Improving Your Credit Before, During and After Divorce
Your financial future depends on good credit scores and clean credit reports with no derogatory items. In this article, I review the steps and offer some tips for handling your credit reports, joint credit cards, and other debts, so your credit will be protected before, during, and after divorce.
How to Tell Your Adult Children That You’re Getting a Divorce
Possibly one of the hardest conversations you might have when it comes to sharing the news about your divorce will be with your adult kids.
Telling Friends, Family, and Co-Workers About Your Divorce
First and foremost, give yourself a little time to process your own feelings. When you feel ready, recognize that in telling friends about divorce, many of the same rules that applied to your children will overlap.
10 Tips for a Peaceful Divorce (Even from a Narcissistic Spouse)
Ten helpful tips to keep your divorce peaceful even if you are dealing with a high-conflict or narcissistic spouse. You may not achieve the perfect “conscious uncoupling” but you may just save some sanity and real money on legal bills.
Legal Information vs. Good Legal Advice: What’s the Difference?
Good legal advice broadly illustrates the law and the legal system and doesn’t suggest a course of action for somebody. Only a licensed lawyer can give legal advice, which forms an agreement between a lawyer and their client. Read on to learn more.
Top 10 Signs You Are the Victim of Gaslighting
Due to the various techniques the abuser has used, you may initially doubt that you are being abused at all. Instead, you may try to convince yourself that “it isn’t that bad,” or perhaps that you are “just too sensitive.”
Creating a Divorce Settlement Agreement That Lasts
Follow these 6 tips to devise a divorce settlement agreement that will stand the test of time as well as changing circumstances.
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