You've been working your entire adult life and have a well-funded pension account with your employer. Maybe you are getting close to retirement age, or perhaps you intend to work for another decade or more. Unfortunately, it looks like your marriage is about to end,...
Conventional wisdom says that raising children is best left to the young. Unfortunately, that's not always the way things work out. If you're a grandparent who has taken on the responsibility of raising your grandchildren for an absent parent, you need to plan a few...
When an adult child divorces, the situation can send shock waves throughout the entire family. As your child's parent, you naturally want to be supportive -- but you may have a lot of conflicted feelings about the situation. It's normal to feel shocked, sad,...
A new study released by researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is providing insight into the role opioid abuse plays in deadly accidents on Maryland's highways. The "Heroin Highway" cuts right through the western part of the state, along the...
Asking for a modification to a custody agreement -- when you don't have the agreement of your ex-spouse -- is a very big deal. The court generally hates to make changes to an existing agreement without a good reason. If you're headed into court with a modification...
When a teenager heads away to a cheerleading competition, the worst news parents expect to hear is that someone broke an arm or a leg in a bad fall -- not that their child has been injured or killed in an accident on the road. Unfortunately, that's what happened after...
People going through a divorce may be willing to do things they would usually find immoral or inappropriate. Even someone who has always had an egalitarian approach toward parenting may change when it is their family going through a divorce. Someone you thought you...
The government shutdown that started in late 2018 and carried over in 2019 is now officially the longest in the history of the United States. That's bad news for a lot of people. Could it also affect your divorce? Possibly. Whether you're (hopefully) reading this...
Years ago, custody arrangements between divorced couples pretty much looked alike from one family to the next. The divorced mom had primary custody (and all the headaches of raising children mostly alone). The divorced dad was relegated to seeing his kids only on a...
Couples that have recently ended their marriages or who are still in that process need to know how to handle one major obligation: their taxes. Here are some basics about taxes after divorce you should know: 1. According to the IRS, your marital status on Dec. 31...