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What Should I Wear to Court (and why does it matter)?
The clothes you wear say a lot about who you are. By simply observing a person’s clothing, consciously or unconsciously, we form impressions about that person’s attitude, lifestyle, social status,...
Post-Divorce Steps You Should Take to Protect Your Assets And Financial Interests
If you have signed your separation agreement or a judge has entered a Judgment of Equitable Distribution dividing your marital property and debts, you are probably feeling relieved that this...
Can I Make the Other Parent Pay for Private School Tuition As Part of a Child Support Obligation?
The North Carolina Child Support Guidelines provide a formula for determining the presumptive child support obligation for parties’ whose combined adjusted gross income is $300,000 per year or less. The...
How Is Property Valued for Purposes of Equitable Distribution?
In North Carolina, the court ordered or agreed-upon division of assets and debts that occurs when spouses separate is called equitable distribution. For purposes of equitable distribution, the parties’ marital...
10 Tips to Minimize the Impact of Divorce on Your Child
Divorce can be a sad, scary and stressful experience for any child. Not surprisingly, a large part of a child’s reaction to divorce has to do with how the parents...
What is Alternative Dispute Resolution?
It is becoming very common for our clients to ask about alternative dispute resolution (ADR). In fact, in many judicial districts in North Carolina, the district court has adopted rules...
