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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce, Family Law

Property that is acquired during the marriage is deemed marital property. Marital property includes:  salaries that the spouses earn during the marriage retirement accounts they establish during the marriage property they purchase during the marriage  businesses they start during the marriage, and debts they enter into during the marriage. Separate property is property that a …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce, Family Law

A spouse who wants to get a legal separation or a divorce is not allowed to hide assets. They are required to disclose their assets and debts through a financial disclosure. After the spouses make a full and accurate financial disclosure to one another, they draft a separation agreement if they are getting legally separated. …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce, Family Law

In Alabama, two spouses who get legally separated are still considered to be legally married. The earnings, including retirement benefits, or accumulations of assets of either spouse that they receive after the decree of legal separation are the party’s separate property. The court will not consider these earnings in a later divorce action. A spouse …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce, Family Law

In Alabama, a default divorce is a divorce that the court orders when the responding spouse does not respond to the divorce petition within a specified time limit. Generally, that time limit is thirty days. The plaintiff, through their Birmingham divorce attorney, can request a divorce judgment by default by filing a motion.  In a …

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