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The holidays and your parenting plan

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in child support on Thursday, October 29, 2015. If you have completed your divorce in the Columbia area and are now getting used to your child custody arrangement or parenting plan on a day-to-day basis, you should note that the first of a string of holidays is coming up soon. Halloween arrives this weekend, and it may be your first experience with your children and dealing with the realities of shared child custody. Perhaps Halloween is listed in your parenting plan and you knew well in advance that you would have your

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What’s in a name?

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in divorce on Thursday, October 22, 2015. Divorce will bring many changes to your life. Some are expected, such as no longer living with your spouse, and needing to assume many of the duties and responsibilities your spouse may have handled when you were married. Some may be not-so-expected. But the more you think through those potential changes before your divorce is final, the better you can set your expectations and those of others. Take something as seemingly simple as your last name, if, as a married woman, you assumed your husband’s

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Are you sure you checked everything off?

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in divorce on Thursday, October 15, 2015. One reason you want to work with an attorney during a divorce is their experience. They have gone through the process many times. Maybe not personally, but as an attorney they are likely to have handled many divorces. And not only is their perspective not clouded by emotions of sadness or anger, they have the advantage of having seen the process multiple times. This gives them a great advantage. For many people, their divorce is their one and only experience with a divorce and, in

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Divorce: the goal is to successfully settle

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in divorce on Friday, October 9, 2015. Most divorce agreements in Missouri are negotiated settlements between the two parties. Divorces are typically settled because going through with a courtroom trial can be very time consuming and expensive. Since the economic consequence of a divorce can be sufficiently problematic, there are few instances where a trial would be seen as cost effective. In some divorce cases, involving the very wealthy, issues may proceed to trial, with the judge making the ultimate decision. But even in these circumstances, this can be risky, as you

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Why you probably don’t want DIY divorce

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in family law on Friday, October 2, 2015. If you and your spouse have decided to divorce, you know money is going to be an issue. Both the cost of filings the divorce paperwork in the courthouse in Columbia and the need to split up your marital assets. Perhaps you figure that if you handle the legal documents and avoid hiring an attorney, you can at least save that cost in the process. It could work. You will probably read stories on the internet of couples who have divorced successfully and who

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“Something must be built in its place”

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in divorce on Saturday, September 26, 2015. A mother, after a divorce, put it this way, declining to label it on the dichotomy of good/bad, she said, “It is a recognition that what existed is irretrievably broken and that something else must be built in its place.” She had to children and after a short marriage, she and her husband realized their relationship was “irretrievably broken.” And while that was something that was sad, it also was something that just “was.” Towards the end, she had felt constant anger toward her spouse.

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