Posts Tagged ‘divorce’

My friend and spouse have decided to get a divorce. They will be doing it themselves as there is no disagreement about how to divide the property and no children. Does anyone know approximately how much this will cost them?

I’m wondering how to deal with (on my resume and in person) some issues. I’m in my early 30s and was divorced five years ago. The divorce and some health issues caused me to go bankrupt a couple years after that. I also dropped out of grad school (I had an A average, but I hated the school and honestly was just too immature at the time to deal with marriage and living 700 miles from my family). Will an attorney know I’m bankrupt? Does it make me look really bad? I was always a good student and worker, but the divorce and illness messed up my life for awhile. I went back to school to try to get my finances in a better position.

I am a divorced mom with two children. I do work and I receive child support (not regularly) but there is not enough money to make ends meet. I have a mortgage and own my car. After my divorce I tried to continue to pay on the cards but I was not able to continue to keep paying on them. It has now been four months of non-payments and I do continue to receive the HARASING phone calls. What eventually will happen? Does anyone know what the law is in Florida regarding credit card debt? Thanks to anyone that can help!

For the state of Indiana. I am wanting to change my last name back to my maiden name and I found a Verified Petition For Change of Name form online to take to the courthouse but, are there any other forms I need and do I have to publish it in the newspaper since I am not a minor and it was a previous name I had? I am married but separated and do not know when I can get divorced plus there is someone in this same town with the same name I have now and she gets in a lot of trouble with the law and people get me mixed up with her, not to metion the doctors office.
I want to change it before we ever get divorced. I don’t know how long it will be before I will be able to afford a divorce.

John and Peggy R. of Seattle, Washington, were married in April 1992. When they married, both of them wanted to have children. After several years of trying unsuccessfully to have a child, the couple visited a fertility clinic, where Peggy was induced to produce several eggs. The eggs were then fertilized with John’s sperm and several 8-celled embryos were artificially produced in a glass test tube. Peggy then underwent surgery and was implanted with the embryos for a total of five different times! None of the attempts to have a child were successful.

John and Peggy began to have marital problems after a few years. The clinic had frozen 10 of the embryos made by John and Peggy during a happier time in their marriage. Peggy decided to keep the embryos to use in future procedures to try and have a baby. She felt that the embryos were her last chance at being a mother. John, however, decided to never have children with his ex-wife and wished to donate the embryos to research.

Both John and Peggy had signed a consent form at the fertility clinic that stated that any unused embryos would be donated for research, but the embryos could not be released without the consent of both donors. The agreement said, in the case of divorce, ownership would be determined in a property settlement or decided by a court.

The potentially precedent-setting dispute over the fate of the frozen embryos has ended up in the U.S. Supreme Court. The nation’s highest court is scheduled to hear the case. The case will decide whether the frozen embryos deserve the protection received by a fetus or that of mere property. The court decision could affect as many as 20,000 frozen embryos across the country!

John won in Washington’s lower courts. They ruled that the embryos were not a human life, but the state court ruled in favor of Peggy. The state court said that once the sperm and ovum are united, a human life has begun, and it is the woman’s decision whether or not to let it proceed.