They say that money can’t buy happiness. While that is probably true, many people daydream about what it would be like to try to purchase bliss. Media outlets around the world, including here in Bethesda, carried the news that Bill and Melinda Gates had announced...
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Month: May 2021
Dating during divorce is a good idea . . . right?
Marriages often end with a lengthy period in which communication is difficult or strained or even nonexistent. Intimacy is gone and those pure feelings of joy and excitement that were so alive in courtship are so distant and faint that they feel like memories from a...
Is mediation right for you and your family?
When people think of legal disputes, they often picture those disagreements being resolved in court. However, resolving disagreements in divorce over child custody, property division, spousal support and other issues in court can be costly, time-consuming, acrimonious...
Methods of dividing a business in divorce
A married couple that owns and operates a successful Maryland business typically puts in long hours of difficult work. A divorce ends not only their marriage, but it can put an end to the business they worked so hard on. In a divorce that involves co-ownership of a...
Maryland’s two types of divorce
While there is a virtually unlimited number of reasons why relationships stop working and marriages come to an end, there are only two types of divorce in Maryland. Absolute divorce When most people think of divorce, they think of what the state of Maryland calls...