Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Q. Before we got married, my wife and I signed a prenuptial agreement. She had inherited some money and I had gotten into renovating homes until the year before we got married. By that point I had 10 ...

In 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a major decision impacting the calculation of alimony and child support. In Cavanagh v. Cavanagh, in addition to setting a new procedure ...

Q: I heard Illinois has a new law for calculating child support. How does that new law work? How is it different from the old law? A: The new child support law went into effect July 1. It replaces the ...

Support where the Court calculates alimony first, then calculates child support using post-alimony incomes. This means that an award of alimony is calculated based on the parties’ total gross incomes ...

A. It’s not that simple. It all depends on the very specific facts and circumstances of your ex’s and your divorce, your respective financial situations at the time of your divorce and your respective ...