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Divorce
Divorce Mediation is an alternative to the litigation and/or negotiation part of divorce. Typically in a divorce, attorneys will argue motions and trials on behalf of the divorcing parties. They will usually seek negotiations with the other side to resolve issues or prepare a settlement agreements. In divorce mediation, the divorcing parties, with help of a mediator will resolve all issues about the divorce and the mediator will then prepare a memorandum of understanding. This memorandum may be brought to the attorneys for preparation of a divorce settlement agreement. Mediation may also be used for post divorce matters.

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Lapointe Robert L

Divorce
Divorce Mediation is an alternative to the litigation and/or negotiation part of divorce. Typically in a divorce, attorneys will argue motions and trials on behalf of the divorcing parties. They will usually seek negotiations with the other side to resolve issues or prepare a settlement agreements. In divorce mediation, the divorcing parties, with help of a mediator will resolve all issues about the divorce and the mediator will then prepare a memorandum of understanding. This memorandum may be brought to the attorneys for preparation of a divorce settlement agreement. Mediation may also be used for post divorce matters.
Child Support
Child support is mandated pursuant to the child support guidelines and can be calculated quickly based upon you and your spouse's gross incomes. Alimony can be awarded for any duration, including life, depending on the circumstances. Alimony awards are usually a combination of the needs of the parties and the ability of the other person's income. Wage assignments, if the obligor is employed, are now mandatory for child support (unless suspended by the agreement of the recipient), and prevent nonpayment. If payment is in arrears, you can file a complaint for contempt.
Child Custody and Visitation
Spousal Support
This can vary greatly by the state law. Usually, the children will remain covered by present health insurance. Usually, the divorced spouse also is covered at no extra cost, until the insured remarries. At that time, the divorced spouse may continue on the plan, but it is usually specified that the additional cost will be paid for by the divorced spouse. In some cases where continuation of coverage in not available, the federal COBRA regulations can apply. They provide short-term coverage, usually 18 months, at an immediate and substantial cost to the divorced spouse. (Health insurance is an increasingly important issue: the cost is escalating, and fewer parties have low-cost, continued coverage.) If alimony is awarded, judges must also require that the obligor obtain or reimburse the spouse for the cost of health insurance without reducing the alimony award.

Personal Injury
As long a debtor has a right to payment at the time of the bankruptcy filing-from a tax refund, a lawsuit, or some other source-that right to payment is property that must be given to the Chapter 7 trustee unless it is exempt, even though the debtor has not yet received any money. Thus, a debtor may have to turn over a tax refund to the trustee that is received after the bankruptcy is filed, and a debtor may not be entitled to the settlement of a personal injury action that is entered into after the bankruptcy is filed.

Bankruptcy
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, debtors give up certain property that they own at the time they file the bankruptcy case. This property is sold by a trustee, who uses the proceeds to pay creditors. The debtors receive their discharge shortly after the case is filed. In this way, Chapter 7 debtors are allowed to keep the money that they earn after filing the bankruptcy case, as well as most other property that they obtain after the filing.
Foreclosure
Whenever any bankruptcy case is filed, the creditors are stopped from taking action to collect the debts that were owed at the time of the bankruptcy. This feature of bankruptcy is called the "automatic stay." The automatic stay stops a foreclosure or repossession from going forward. However, no bankruptcy filing allows a debtor to keep property that is security for a loan without making payments on the loan. For example, debtors with home mortgages and car loans, cannot keep their homes and cars without making payments. As soon as the bankruptcy case is closed, the automatic stay terminates, and the creditor can proceed with foreclosure or repossession. Moreover, if the debtor is not current on payments, creditors may ask the court to terminate the automatic stay while the bankruptcy is still pending, and, in Chapter 7, creditors are usually able to terminate the automatic stay. In order to keep property that is security for a loan, a debtor often must enter into a "reaffirmation agreement" with the creditor who holds the lien on that property.

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