When community money is used to improve or invest in the separate real property of one spouse, the community will have a constructive “lien” against that separate property in the divorce. What this means is that the community will likely be entitled to a reimbursement for monies invested in the separate property as well as
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Qualifying for Spousal Maintenance in Arizona
An award of spousal maintenance or alimony is not automatically given to one of the parties in every divorce case filed in Arizona just because it has been requested. First, the Court is required to examine the facts and circumstances in each case to see if the requesting party is even eligible to receive spousal
Can This Marriage Be Saved if You Are Married to a “Control Freak”?
One of the major causes of divorces is when one of the spouses is a control freak. If you don’t know what that term means, you are blessed. In short, a control freak attempts to dictate how everything is done around them. They try to control people, situations and outcomes. A lot of you –
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Can this Marriage Be Saved Even with Admitted Infidelity
This may the toughest subject in this series regarding “Can This Marriage Be Saved.” Infidelity is a direct breach of the fundamental concept of marriage. Your soulmate for life and with whom you may have children admits that he or she has had an affair with someone else. You, no doubt, would not recognize that
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Saving Your Marriage When Domestic Violence is Involved
The marriage cannot be saved, of course, unless both the Husband and the Wife want to do it. And – that will require a big change if one of you brought domestic violence to the divorce table. If there are children, a decision to try to save the marriage, i.e., your family, requires both parents
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Saving Your Marriage When Drugs Or Alcohol Are Involved
One of the greatest needs in family matters is for everybody involved, i.e., the parties, grandparents, attorneys, etc., to just stop – cease and desist – and back away from all the turmoil and anger – and think! If there are kids involved, they are the ones who are really going to be hurt. If you
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How To Keep Your Financial Accounts And Personal Property Your Sole And Separate Property
In second, third and subsequent marriages, it often becomes important to the person that has their own savings, financial accounts or expensive personal property items to keep them as their own separate property, even though Arizona is a community property state. Younger people just starting out together typically don’t run into these issues as many
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