MP McQueen is a veteran journalist who has covered national and metro news, and has written and edited articles for legal and financial publications. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading ...

Many people think divorce means they each can take half and walk away. But it doesn’t work like that. When a marriage ends in divorce, it is complicated to divide the property that the couple owned ...

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 ...

In dividing marital property and debt in a divorce, equitable distribution is the law in most states today. Equitable distribution means that courts must divide marital property in a just manner when ...

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), divorces and annulments were provisionally counted in the United States at 672,502 for the year 2023, which translates ...

Discover the differences between common law and community property states in marital property division during divorce. Learn what counts as marital property.