Author: Scott Marlow

High Conflict Divorce Cases Heat Up Quick You keep trying to work things out, but everything seems to be getting worse. If contentious times in court now look like an inevitability, you probably have a high-conflict case on your hands. High-conflict cases boil down to high-conflict personalities. This could mean your ex or their lawyer…

Amicable Divorce Process Avoiding conflict does not mean compromising fairness. Lawyers are ethically prohibited from representing both sides, even in an amicable divorce. Each spouse has unique interests of their own in the divorce process. Instead, hire two separate lawyers who are familiar with and supportive of an amicable divorce. Amicable Divorce Lowers Cost &…

The Ins & Outs of Committed Intimate Relationships Even when unmarried, when you’re getting out of a relationship in the state of Washington, you need to look at the legal possibility that you’re in a Committed Intimate Relationship (CIR). Washington courts sum up a CIR as a “stable, marital-like relationship where both parties cohabit with…

Breakups are brutal—even if you didn’t technically get married. That’s likely what you always told each other. That the reason you never got married was because you made a conscious decision not to. Marriage is just a piece of paper, right? Technically yes, but no matter what, now that your once love story is in…