Kansas City Divorce & Family Law Blog by Stange Law Firm, PC

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Property Division on Thursday, July 3, 2014. We discussed some special concerns of persons involved in so-called “gray divorces” in our immediately preceding blog post. A financial strategist and media commentator on divorce says that those people — divorcing individuals in their 50s and beyond — need to view divorce “as a business transaction.” Jeff Landers additionally notes that divorcing baby boomers “need to crunch the numbers.” We alluded to that in our prior post, noting that finances can be a critically important component of the divorce process for many older

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Property Division on Monday, June 30, 2014. As we have noted in past blog posts, and as scores of family law commentators have additionally pointed out, divorce is far from a cookie-cutter event in most instances. That is, the fact patterns, key considerations and outcomes in any 10 divorces in Missouri, Illinois or elsewhere across the country are likely to be easily distinguished and highly varied. Child custody and visitation rights might be a preeminent concern in one divorce, with spousal maintenance (alimony) being a matter of key importance in another

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Property Division on Thursday, June 12, 2014. As we have noted in past select posts, there is an obvious and compelling reason why cookie-cutter divorce kits and advice routinely sabotage rather than promote optimal dissolution outcomes. That reason is this: Every divorce is unique, with singular considerations that cannot be accounted for through generic forms and advice. Child-related issues might dominate in one case. Perhaps it was domestic violence that served as an explosive catalyst in ending a marriage. Maybe an affair precipitated a divorce filing. Or, as is so often

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Property Division on Thursday, June 5, 2014. We’ll concede at the outset of today’s blog post that most people — OK, virtually all people — will likely have a problem identifying with the story of Dmitry Rybolovlev’s divorce. The reason: A court in Switzerland recently ordered the Russian businessman to hand over more than $4.5 billion — yes, you read that correctly — in cash to his former wife Elena as partial settlement of their unquestionably high-asset divorce. And that is not all. The divorce settlement also mandated the turning over