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Preparing for Discovery During Your Divorce Process
After the initial petition for a divorce has been filed, information needs to be exchanged between the parties. This is to ensure that one party is not being cheated. To make sure that the requests made by each party are as reasonable as possible, discovery needs to...
Getting Your Spouse to Leave the Marital Home: Best Practices and Guidelines
Ending a marriage is rarely an easy decision to make and things can get a little heated during a divorce. This is due to the type of emotions involved in a divorce which can range from guilt, to hurt, and anger. Living together with your spouse while going through a...
Essential Attorney Considerations for a Successful Joint Venture
Having an idea is one thing but executing that idea all alone can be difficult to pull off. A joint venture allows you to merge resources with another party for a particular project. You get to share the risks involved in pulling the idea off with someone else so you...
Dealing With Independent Contractors and Vendors? Read This
Most business owners will have to work with an independent contractor at some point. However, people often mistake independent contractors for employees. Independent contractors have more freedom than employees and as such, your relationship with them should be...
Can I Modify the Court’s Spousal Support Order?
Spousal support or alimony is not a punishment paid by the spouse who ‘caused’ the breakdown of the marriage like a lot of people think. Instead, it is paid by the spouse who earns more to ensure that both spouses are financially stable after a divorce. These orders...
Six Reasons You Need a Patent
Picture this: you have worked on an idea for months, spending your energy and money and you finally manage to launch this idea. The next day, someone else executes your idea and starts making more money than you have from it. That sounds like an absolute nightmare,...
How do Appeals Really Work?
When the decision of a lower court is unsatisfactory or you believe that something might have gone wrong during the litigation process, you have the option of getting the case reviewed by a higher court. The court of appeal may or may not reverse the decision,...
Co-Parenting Strategies To Ensure a Peaceful Divorce Process
Breaking the news of a divorce is always difficult for spouses who have children together. The separation is not an easy thing for children to come to terms with and this often affects the smoothness of the divorce process. Children with divorced parents are more...
DIY Divorces: Can You Really Do It Yourself?
Divorce is often challenging and emotional, and you might wonder if it is something to handle independently. A DIY divorce, or a "pro se" divorce, is one the parties handle without an attorney's assistance. While it is possible to file for divorce independently, it is...
Protecting Your intellectual property as a Business
As a business owner, protecting your intellectual property is crucial to the success of your business. Your intellectual property may include trademarks, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and other valuable assets that distinguish your business from others in the...