As Dorothy, The Lion, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man were fearful of their fate on their path to the Emerald City, there are some major concerns regarding appraisals and refinancing that are up for consideration when moving through a divorce process in 2009. Are they just fears of the imagination as in the Wizard of Oz movie or real…
Historically, divorce has been a nasty business with equally nasty terminology. “Custody” and “alimony” conjure up images of bile-spewing, decades-long battles. Washington, like many states, has altered the terminology of many key divorce concepts in an effort to escape the loaded words of the bad old days, probably in the hope that more harmonious language will mean more harmonious litigation.…
