Case Law Friday
We breakdown and discus cases related to family law.
Impact of Working with a Weight Loss Coach
Studies show that professional weight loss coaches achieve significant better healthy weight loss than peer-led and mentor-led groups. Losing weight offers health benefits including lowered blood pressure, lowered risk of heart disease and strokes, improved cholesterol and blood sugar levels, and other lifestyle benefits.
Parenting Through Trauma and Divorce
Talking with your children about divorce and other traumatic events requires the parents to get on the same page. This is difficult when the parents are going through a divorce or are already separated and living in two households.
The Power Of Shared Experiences
A team develops relationships by having shared experiences. At Sterling Lawyers, we believe we are called to serve the legal needs of families navigating divorce, paternity and post judgment challenges. Sterling Lawyers builds a client-centered law firm by fielding a team of staff members and attorneys that pull for each other.
Does Cheating Affect Alimony?
With Wisconsin being a “no fault” state, infidelity does not help or hurt someone in the judge's final decision on spousal support. In addition, it has no impact on alimony or property and debt division.
Shape Up Shoppe: Neighborhood Family Fitness
In the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee sits an old school gym that was started over 40 years ago by Julie and Dennis Newman. The Newman’s are known in the neighborhood for volunteering around the community and in their church. It is apparent that family, health, church, and the community are what is important to the Newmans.
How Does Life Insurance Work After a Divorce in Wisconsin?
After a divorce is final, you can usually remove your ex spouse from the life insurance policy unless a court orders otherwise to secure support payments.
Can I Change My Mind After Signing Divorce Papers?
When a divorce is finalized and you change your mind, there's not much you can do. However, if you're int he early stages of divorce, you can ask the court to look at a “significant life change” to determine if changes can be made or you can request to withdraw your petition.
Benefits of Cooking Together as a Family
Shared family experiences are proven to increase family bonds and promote positive behavior in children. By cooking with your kids, you have the opportunity to teach them safety, problem-solving skills, and the value of collaboration.
Urban Gardening as a Solution for Food Insecurity and Development of Communities
What is urban gardening and how could it help your family? With the increasing popularity, it might be time to jump in and help your community with an urban garden.
Can the Courts Modify or Terminate Alimony post Divorce?
Attorney Latrice Knighton of Sterling Lawyers explains how the landmark case Vander Perren v. Vander Perren sets the precedent for how the court rules on how maintenance can be reduced or terminated by the courts years later after the divorce was settled.
How to Choose a Financial Advisor For Your Family
When choosing a financial advisor, decide if you need all aspects of financial planning or an investment advisor only. You'll want to ask how the financial advisor is compensated, what type of clients they work with, examples of success, up-to-date credentials, references, and finally if they are a fiduciary.
Is a Degree Considered Marital Property in a Divorce?
What is the reason to why a higher-education degree is not considered to be a part of marital assets? How will that affect you and your current situation?
How to Decide When to Say “No” to Your Friends and Family
Are you overwhelmed? Are your family and friends still asking you to help them when you have absolutely nothing left to give? Here are some useful tips to to reduce your stress and decide whether to help a friend or family member when you are feeling burnt out or overwhelmed.
The Importance of Healthy and Flourishing Families
Sterling Lawyers see themselves as more than just legal representation. They believe that they are called to serve the community and help build strong and healthy families.
A Client-Centered Firm Empowering Families
The Attorneys at Sterling Lawyers believe in their calling to serve the legal needs of families going through divorce, paternity and post judgment challenges.
How Is Debt Divided in Divorce
Dealing with debt in a divorce is similar to how courts deal with assets. Attorney Latrice Knighton of Sterling Lawyers answers questions we often hear concerning dealing with the division of divorce debt.
A Client-Centered Firm Helping Families Navigate Divorce
The team at Sterling Lawyers have a unique story about almost becoming a roofing company. They instead chose to help families and serve the legal needs of those going through family law issues.
The Macaron with Madame Macaron MKE
When it comes to macarons, Madame Macaron says, “Patience is a virtue.” We only need three ingredients to make these delicious cookies, but the level of precision involved is similar to doing a science experiment.
How Does Life Insurance Impact Divorce?
Insurance is an important piece of finance as it safeguards your family from the unforeseeable. After a divorce, it's important to take a look at your options as the family dynamic has changed and new options may be available to you.
How to Budget After Divorce
More often than not, the standard of living of both spouses drops in the first few years after divorce. This is because the now two separated people are not on the same income and pool of assets that they had been with during the marriage.
How Debt is Divided in Divorce
Just as far as there has to be a division in property in a divorce, there also has to be a division of debt. Make sure that you understand all of what the debts are and have an idea on how you would like to divide them.
Extremely Useful Information When Filing Taxes for Divorcees
Filing for taxes can be complicated by itself, but when family trouble gets thrown into the mix it can feel overwhelming. That's why it's important to know what questions and answers to have during a divorce.
The Benefits of a Marital Settlement Agreement in Divorce
The goal of a marital settlement agreement is to avoid a costly trail and get the best outcome that suits each party in a divorce. An attorney will create the agreement, which will outline all aspects of the divorce.
What Documents Should You Collect in a Divorce?
Collect the things you need before it's too late! Get ahead while you can in the early stages of divorce by getting the documents you need.
How to Emotionally Survive a Divorce
While many think about divorce in a legal light, most forget the emotional struggles that come with that, for both you and your family. Ending a long time relationship creates negative feelings that we just want to bottle up inside, where it neither gets acknowledged or dealt with. Professionals in the field of psychology agree that doing this instead of dealing with these negative emotions head on create more problems in the long run, for both you and your children or family. Today, we hear about how professionals in psychotherapy can help both with the divorce itself and the emotional burden that comes with it.
The Science of Tracking Finances: The Job of a Forensic Accountant
Money is a struggle that we all face on a constant basis, and sometimes those struggles lead to a divorce due to a lack of openness about finances. In these situations, you want to be sure you are covered. Whether you believe your spouse has hidden finances or assets during the marriage, or if you have never handled your finances in the past and are worried about dishonesty, talking with a Forensic Accountant could potentially save you a fortune. Today, we speak with one of these professionals about what they do and how they can help during a divorce.
The Art of Refinancing During a Divorce
Whether you decide to keep or sell the marital home when going through a divorce, you are going to have to go through the proper steps to ensure that everything is handled to tend to both parties' wishes.
How to Approach Transitions During Family Law Matters
Often, we can better our approach to these scenarios with the help of professionals in the area of Psychology, who can guide us down the best paths to accepting these transitions. There are plenty of instances where working with such professionals can allow our perspectives on a certain situation to change it from a tragedy to a triumph.
How to Financially Prepare for Divorce
A divorce is a time to look at your saving and spending. You need to know if you have enough money saved for your retirement and money to live comfortably. For many people, it requires you to acknowledge whether you understand your retirement plan or start creating one. Ann Massaro of DiDonato, Massaro & Associates talks about how a certified financial planner can help you!
How to Propel Your Career and Lower Alimony
Will I have to pay alimony? How long will I have to pay alimony? These are top questions most divorcing people want to know. The answer depends on how much your spouse makes and whether they are earning the most money based on their experience and education. Understand how a vocational expert can help increase your spouse's income and lower your alimony.
We interview an expert, Sarah Holmes of Vocational Professionals, to address some of your concerns about your spouse and their employment opportunities. You can learn more about Sarah Holmes at www.vocpros.com.
Top Secrets to Selling a Home During Divorce
Are you going through a divorce and want to get out of your home mortgage? Do you want to sell your home? Are you worried about getting enough money out of the sale of your home? We have asked a top realtor the most frequently asked questions from clients going through a divorce and complied the answers here to help you decide what the best steps for you to get the most money out of the sale of your home.
How to Effectively Prepare for Divorce Court
You want to handle your divorce on your own but you are uncertain about what to expect in court. Here are three things you should know will be expected of you by the judge handling your divorce.
The One Question You Must Ask Yourself Every Single Day
If you are considering a change or want an improvement in your relationships, increase your money, or amplify your success….this one question can be a game changer.
IEP Meetings and Guardian Ad Litem
A lot of situations that involve a guardian ad litem would be where parents are having problems helping their kids with discipline at school or behavior at school, or falling behind academically. The parents might get frustrated because they don’t know what to expect from the school or what to do with their child.
Achieving Goals With the Help of a Coach
Life is full of surprises and it can be challenging after dealing with a hurtle like divorce, but there are professionals who will help guide people to achieve their goals in a timely manner.
Relocating With Children After Divorce
In Wisconsin a custodial parent Should Not move a child away from the non-custodial parent without a court order. The law in Wisconsin requires you to make a formal motion when moving more than 100 miles away, or if moving across state lines.
Finding Positive Parenting Solutions
What are Positive Parenting Solutions? Parenting Place’s Triple P Program is an evidenced based trauma informed program that focuses on developing Positive Parenting Solutions. There are different programs structured for the specific needs of the parents and the children.
Life During Quarantine As We Experienced It
We all have been going through this coronavirus Safer At Home lockdown together. In this fun video, Anthony Karls gets on Zoom and chats with some of our attorneys and staff to learn how they have been surviving the quarantine while working from home and staying safe.
How Earning Capacity is Imputed will Affect your Divorce Settlement
If you lose your job or are looking to go back into the workforce while going through a divorce, your earning capacity will be evaluated and imputed based on what is learned about your earning potential. This could affect your divorce settlement.
What are the Benefits of Parenting Coaching?
It may not be the easiest thing to acknowledge the need for outside help, but when you do everyone will have the opportunity to benefit for parent coaching.
Meet CSS Training MGR Mary Sankey
Mary joined Sterling Lawyers in March of 2018. Under Mary's mentoring, the Client Solutions Team learns to validate prospective and current clients through empathetic listening.
The Benefits of Day Camps for Kids
Anthony Karls, the host of Flourishing Families, sits down with Pat Quin of Cedar Springs Outdoor Adventure Day Camp and the conversation quickly turns to the benefits of a child attending day camp. They discuss how day camps provide the child an opportunity to develop the foundations of their character.
Meet CSS MGR Kelley Shaw
Client Solutions Team manager Kelley Shaw has been with Sterling Lawyers since 2015. “Every interaction with every client and every potential client, is an opportunity for us to build relationships across our community,” Kelley says, in this interview.
The Stages of Financial Independence
We recently sat down with George Schmidley of Affiliated Financial Advisors for this video about getting started towards financial independence and followed up with questions where we ask him about the stages of financial independence and if this were a goal or a process.
The Power of Validating Others
We all seek validation and likely have a basic understanding of the benefit of validating others. However, this simple skill is often the hardest interpersonal skill to understand and master.
Do I Have to Pay Alimony if My Ex is Living With Someone?
Many factors affect alimony. A spouse does not have to marry someone legally in order to be eligible for change in spousal support. Two people can be in a de-facto married relationship where they are not married and they act as a married couple by living together and paying everyday bills, etc.
Maintaining Communication During Divorce
Children may make the idea of “no contact” a little tricky after your divorce. If you have kids, it's important to put your differences aside for the betterment of the child's life.
The Changing Practice of Home Appraisal
The process of diving property and debt during/after the divorce is called property division. When it comes to homes, whether you want your house to appraise above or below the fair market rate depends on you wanting to keep it or be bought out.
Handling the Emotional Turmoil of Divorce
Handling the Emotional Turmoil of Divorce Latrice Knighton is an award-winning divorce attorney, life coach, and speaker. She solves problems using her experience and legal knowledge to offer practical advice.While going through divorce it may seem like you're going...
Complexities of House Appraisals During Divorce
No one enjoys the thought of splitting their assets during a divorce, but it's an important step to equally distributing the things two people have jointly owned.