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The military divorce rate went down from 3.1% in 2019 to 2.8% in 2020. While that might seem like a good thing at first glance, it’s likely that the decline wasn’t due to an increase in marital harmony among service members and their spouses. A m… Read More

Certain issues are a part of every divorce: division of marital property, and, if there are children, custody of those children. But what happens in marriages in which the marital “property” includes frozen embryos from IVF procedures? Is there s… Read More

Marriage can be hard. In many ways, a marriage in which one or both spouses is in the military can be even harder, with the deployments and other challenges military families face. It is no surprise that military divorce rates are slightly higher tha… Read More

Not so many generations ago, families in this country tended to stay put. Adults often worked for the same company much of their adult lives. People dated and married others in their community and settled down there. Children grew up near grandparent… Read More

As every divorced or separated parent knows, co-parenting between separate households is difficult. Parents often have different routines and rules, not to mention different opinions on larger issues, such as whether the child needs counseling or whi… Read More

Any military spouse can tell you that deployment is hard on a marriage. But if you’re reading this blog post, chances are you don’t need someone else to tell you about the stresses of deployment. Whether you are the spouse keeping the home fires… Read More

In South Carolina, divorced parents are encouraged to maintain a strong relationship with their child and to support the child’s relationship with the other parent. Having a strong connection with both parents is almost always best for a child, and… Read More

Child custody is really two different things: legal custody, which has to do with who makes major decisions for a child, and physical custody, which refers to which adult a child lives with. With either physical custody or legal custody, there are va… Read More