When a couple separates and eventually divorces, the process can include many factors and several steps. Dissolving a relationship typically involves deciding how assets are separated, who gets what ...

When it comes to family law, few legal tools are as misunderstood as postnuptial agreements. While prenuptial agreements often are familiar, postnuptial agreements — contracts between spouses created ...

Although a common misconception, common law marriages in California do not exist. In fact, the state stopped recognizing this ...

Just the idea of signing a prenuptial agreement before marriage makes most client's skin crawl. Anxiety mounts regarding presenting the idea to a fiancé or soon-to-be fiancé. Disappointment and ...

From Khan v. Hasan, decided Wednesday by the New York intermediate appellate court (Judges Angela G. Iannacci, Cheryl E. Chambers, William G. Ford & Lillian Wan), a good illustration of how American ...

The noted astronomer Carl Sagan and his wife married in 1968. In 1977, they signed a handwritten document entitled "Preliminary agreement, Marriage settlement," which contained property disposition ...

Ohio will permit post marital agreements starting March 23. Gov. Mike Dewine signed the bill into law on Dec. 22. Unlike prenuptial agreements, Ohio has not allowed post marital agreements in the past ...

Kobus Louw / Getty Images If the Siete Partidas was good enough for Alfonso X, King of Castile from 1252 to 1284, then it should be good enough for Texas. The Siete Partidas was part of the Castilian ...

Many people may know a bit about prenuptial agreements. But some might not know about marital agreements, which encompass more than a traditional prenup. A marital agreement can be a prenuptial ...