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In a high asset divorce, one spouse often has more financial resources at the beginning of the process, which is a significant advantage. The spouse with fewer resources is sometimes forced to accept less in a divorce settlement than they are entitled to, because he...

Colorado music fans who were around in the 1970s will remember Fleetwood Mac. The group's drummer, Mick Fleetwood, was back in the news recently with reports that he has filed for legal separation from his wife of 17 years. The papers were filed in court in...

No two marriage dissolutions are alike. But in all divorces one basic fact is a constant: one of the parties has to move out of the family home. In many cases one spouse will continue to live in the home. But in many others, it makes more economic sense to put it on...

Oil billionaire Harold Hamm has an estimated net worth of $11.3 billion. He is ranked number 35 on the Forbes 400, the business magazine's list of the 400 wealthiest Americans. The Oklahoma mogul may be about to move down in the rankings, though. His second wife filed...

There are a lot of reasons to get married. In our culture, most people get married because they fall in love. Other factors that motivate people to get married are religious traditions, societal expectations and for some, financial security. But one advantage of...

Colorado courts will give effect to a valid prenuptial agreement. It is uncommon for a court to declare a prenuptial agreement unenforceable. Yet it happened in a recent New York divorce case, in which the attorney for the wife persuaded the court that the husband...

In Boulder County, as in many other jurisdictions, collecting past due child support payments is often a frustrating task. Now a county in Michigan is trying a new tactic: instead of locking parents up in the county jail for failure to pay child support, sheriff's...

Colorado movie fans may know Diane Lane from her Oscar-nominated performance in 2002's "Unfaithful." Lane was in the news again recently when it was announced she had filed for divorce from actor Josh Brolin, to whom she was married for eight and a half years. Brolin...

It's no secret that adultery is the cause of many divorces in Colorado. But once a couple makes the decision to get a divorce, allegations of adultery have no bearing on custody or property determinations. Colorado is a "no-fault" divorce state, meaning that a...

When Colorado voters legalized the personal use of marijuana last November, they also unleashed a multitude of legal issues that have yet to be resolved. Among these issues are how state and local authorities should regulate the cultivation and sale of marijuana, how...