Most family lawyers of my acquaintance, as well as the majority of divorced couples, would acknowledge that the exchange of money at the time of divorce serves as a means to salve wounds or an instrument of revenge against disappointing spouses.
If bargaining power depends on the ability to do one another damage (and it often does) Charles and Diana were far better positioned to negotiate the conditions of their divorce at the time of their separation than at the commencement of their marriage.
At the time of his sister's divorce, Picower was working as a manager at an accountancy, while Bienes and his partner, Frank Avellino, had taken over Alpern's accounting firm and helped transform it into an early Madoff feeder fund.
The last and best reason to negotiate a divorce settlement at the time of separation is its timeliness.
The couple had been married for five years at the time of the incident in September, but have since filed for divorce.
Family fights after a loved one passes away are especially common when there is a divorce proceeding pending at the time of death.
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My wife and I were separated at the time, and were in the midst of a possible divorce and experiencing some financial distress, including an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) increase and out of pocket costs for advanced marriage counseling.
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As for Pixar, far from a glamorous beginning, Jobs gained control of it from George Lucas who, was at the time raising cash to pay for a divorce.
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She said she failed to give a coherent statement about the NoW phone call at the time of her arrest because she was under stress - in 2010 she was dealing with an acrimonious divorce and a failed IVF procedure with her new partner.
"Some of the coverage of her first marriage, her first divorce and her affairs, was strikingly more critical than the coverage of most other celebrities at the time, " says Steinheimer.
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