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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

When people call our office about getting divorced in Alabama, one of the first questions they ask is how long it will take and how much it will cost. The honest answer is that it depends almost entirely on one thing: whether the divorce is contested or uncontested. Those two words decide the timeline, the …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

When a marriage ends, the law has clear answers for the two spouses and, usually, for the children’s legal parents. The person the law tends to forget is the stepparent. You may have been the one who packed lunches, sat in the carpool line, coached the ball team, and showed up to every parent-teacher conference …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Divorce is one of the most private things that can happen to a person, and yet in Alabama it plays out in a system built to be open to the public. Your financial accounts, your arguments, the reasons the marriage fell apart, sometimes things about your children, all of it can end up in a …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Divorce ends a marriage. It does not, on its own, rewrite your estate plan. That gap is where people get hurt. An Alabama divorce changes some of your estate documents automatically the moment the judge signs the decree, leaves other documents exactly as they were, and does nothing at all during the months your case …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Divorce changes your taxes. Not someday, not in the abstract, but on the very next return you file. The filing status you use, who claims the children, how the house gets handled, what happens to a 401(k) you split with your spouse, and whether alimony moves money across tax brackets are all decided, in large …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Every parent wants to send their kid to college. When you are divorcing, that hope collides with a hard legal reality that surprises most people: in Alabama, a judge cannot order your ex to help pay for it. Not tuition, not the dorm, not books. The law changed in 2013, and a lot of what …

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