When a couple “lawyer up” during a divorce or custody dispute, it may seem that they’re about to go to war. But you don’t have to re-enact Gettysburg to resolve a domestic dispute. A growing number of ...

Parties unfamiliar with the legal system shudder at the thought of seeing their life in its most personal context, displayed on a witness stand before a judge and a courtroom full of peering ...

COVID-19 has put pressure on everyone, especially couples who have problems in their relationship. The stress of being forced to live in a limited space and losing a job, income and possibly a home ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made the backlog of family court worse, with some jurisdictions being shut down completely for months. Many divorcing couples rely on the courts to settle disputes without ...

South Florida is famously litigious, but a new family law firm in the region aims to use a recently established form of alternative dispute resolution to resolve family matters outside the courtroom.

FARGO - A couple's split can be messy and contentious, but some Fargo-Moorhead attorneys, mental health professionals and financial advisers are bringing a different way to divorce to the area.

The start of the year is a popular time for couples to meet with lawyers as they contemplate divorce. Rather than opt for costly and drawn-out litigation, many are turning to alternatives such as ...

Last month, Womble Bond Dickinson launched “Doing Well by Doing Good,” a thought leadership series focused on ways in which environmental and social governance impact business. The following article ...

Mississippi became the 25th state this year to adopt rules of collaborative law, which allows people to sit together at the table to work through their differences in hopes of avoiding what could ...

A lot of people contemplating the end of their marriage think there’s only one way to go about it: in a messy, scorched-earth, expensive divorce. If the divorcing couple is very wealthy and co-owns ...

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