Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has ...

“While not a wholesale replacement for other frameworks, when STMP is used in the right circumstances, it can offer a rare alignment of structure and substance.” Marriage is not simply a romantic ...

Harriet Newman Cohen and Tim James of Cohen Hennessey Bienstock & Rabin discuss the Equitable Distribution Law and the courts' justification for such differential treatment of certain forms of marital ...

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 ...

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