Are my earnings from my job that I earned during the marriage marital property? Almost certainly. Black’s Law Dictionary defines “marital property” as follows: Property that is acquired during marriage…
2018 UT App 19 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS LYNESSA MICHELLE ANDERSON, Appellee, LOREN PRICE ANDERSON, Appellant. Opinion No. 20160507-CA Filed February 1, 2018 Fourth District Court, Provo Department The…
2018 UT App 22 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS HOLLY PAULSEN, Appellee, KEITH PAULSEN, Appellant. Opinion No. 20151014-CA Filed February 1, 2018 Second District Court, Farmington Department The Honorable Robert…
This opinion is subject to revision before final publication in the Pacific Reporter 2017 UT 66 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH JILLIAN SCOTT, Petitioner, v. BRADLEY…
QUESTION: Can the alimony award be decreased if the alimony payor had a drastic change in income?; i.e., if he lost his job or was demoted and now makes less than half…
Nicholson v. Nicholson - 2017 UT App 155 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS RONALD J. NICHOLSON, Appellant, v. PAULA ANN NICHOLSON, Appellee. Opinion No. 20151021-CA Filed August 24, 2017 Second…
Vanderzon v. Vanderzon - 2017 UT App 150 - August 17, 2017 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS HEIDI KIRSTEN VANDERZON, Appellant, v. JOHN MATTHIAS VANDERZON, Appellee. Opinion No. 20140946-CA Filed…
QUESTION: Is there a way to stop ORS from taking child support directly out of my pay checks? For the first 10 years of my husband’s divorce decree, he and…
Rule v. Rule - 2017 UT App 137 (August 3, 2017) – alimony – standard of living THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS GEOFFREY S. RULE, Appellee, v. RICHELLE RULE, Appellant.…
MacDonald v. MacDonald, 2017 UT App 136 (August 3, 2017) THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS KIRKPATRICK MACDONALD, Appellant, v. LEE ANNE MACDONALD, Appellee. Opinion No. 20150785-CA Filed August 3, 2017…
Chesley v. Chesley, 2017 UT App 127 (July 28, 2017) THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS MORIAH LEE CHESLEY, Appellee, v. BENJAMIN WADE CHESLEY, Appellant. Opinion No. 20160193-CA Filed July…
Christensen v. Christensen - 2017 UT App 120 - July 20, 2017 THE UTAH COURT OF APPEALS ELENA KAY CHRISTENSEN, Appellee, v. BRENT CHRISTENSEN, Appellant. Opinion No. 20150994-CA Filed July…
If I have evidence of my spouse cheating on me, how likely am I to get full custody of my children? Most divorce/custody cases are complicated and rarely are decided…
Can my ex force me not to pay for my child's college tuition, even though I can afford to pay it in full? My ex and I have a growing…
What are the biases shown in family law? Every human bias imaginable can affect a family law case, but the ones that I find most common and most troubling are…
QUESTION: Does remarriage affect child support? My ex-wife remarried a man who makes about 4x more than I do annually. Because of this she doesn’t have to work anymore. I…
During the discovery process, what happens if the opposing party doesn't answer his/her discovery questions in a divorce or child custody battle? What CAN happen (in Utah, where I practice…
So you don't like the terms of your divorce settlement and you're wanting to modify those terms. I hope that when you signed that settlement agreement you didn't agree to…
What effects do divorce, alimony, child custody, child support, and property division have on your income taxes? Do these effects matter enough to consider? Yes. To be sure, when going…
Contents If you are the victim of serious or escalating domestic violence, get help and get to safety first. 2 Advance Planning, If You Have That Option. 2 Gather in…
My blog post here is inspired by a blog post by Karen Bigman, who identifies herself as a “divorce coach.” Here is the link to her post, there’s a link…
You’ve heard the nightmare divorce stories: The divorces that go on and on for years with no end in sight, all the while costing tens of thousands of dollars; The…
Note: You do not need to be divorced or going through a divorce to find this article helpful. This article is not intended to benefit only those who have received…
Divorce carries with it consequences that could go on for years for those you care about the most (and that includes you!). Still, you feel the need to “save money”…
Though Utah is a no-fault divorce state, and divorces are routinely—and almost exclusively—granted for “irreconcilable differences,” infidelity in Utah can still wind up costing you in divorce. The Utah Code…
There are many issues in a typical divorce that are hotly disputed but child support and spousal support (aka alimony) invariably top that list. This is, in part, because even…
Near countless hours have been spent fighting over how much alimony or child support parties should pay and receive in a divorce action. While in Utah the legislature has established…
There are many points of contention in a divorce action, from child custody to asset and debt distribution. After child custody, one of the most contentious issues in a divorce…
Under Utah Code Ann. § 30–3–5(10) unless otherwise provided in the divorce decree, alimony “terminates upon establishment by the party paying alimony that the former spouse is cohabitating with another…
With rare exception, nobody on either side of a spousal support or alimony issue is ever satisfied. Those seeking alimony contend there's never enough. Those paying alimony contend too much…
“I don’t know if this is important, but…” I can’t speak for anyone else, but my parents dreaded hearing that phrase from me as a teenager. It nearly always…
A few things you suspected, weren’t sure of, and that I can confirm for you: Filing for divorce is a daunting task in all but the simplest cases. There are…