Washington’s law about spousal maintenance (which people sometimes call “alimony”) is written without respect to gender. Sometimes men will pay spousal maintenance to their ex-wives and sometimes women will pay spousal maintenance to their ex-husbands.
So, high-earning ladies, if you’re thinking about getting married: Choose wisely. In life after divorce, it could be that you [...]
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Pets are property, sad but true.
Posted in Divorce on Aug 14th, 2008
In Washington, pets are considered personal property. Even though we get really emotionally attached to them, the law doesn’t deal with deciding who should get a dog or a cat any differently than it would deal with who should get the forks, the lamps or the couches.
But, just because the court isn’t required to [...]