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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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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Divorce in Alabama is part law and part logistics, and the people who come out of it in decent shape are usually the ones who avoided a handful of predictable errors. Most of the damage in a divorce is not caused by the other spouse or even by the judge. It is self-inflicted. A client …

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Posted by Steven A. Harris | Divorce

Divorce is one of the hardest things a person goes through, and nobody hands you a manual for the emotional side of it. The paperwork has deadlines. Your feelings do not. At The Harris Firm LLC, we have sat across the desk from thousands of Alabama clients over the years, and the pattern is almost …

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