March 12, 2010 – 10:28 am
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My husband and I decided 6 months ago to get divorced. Since then he has started dating and now has a girlfriend. I am miserable and desperate to split up, but I don’t see how we can afford it.
We bought our house in 2007. We could probably just about sell it for what we paid for it, but we would have…
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My husband and I split up at the end of September. He says that we can’t file a joint tax return, because we are living apart and I have already filed for divorce.
He thinks that he will be better off by filing separately. But I still have taxes withheld from my pay checks based on a joint return. …
November 4, 2009 – 10:49 am
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My husband and I are divorcing after 18 years of marriage. I stayed at home with our kids for nearly eight years, and even after I went back to work I never made nearly as much as he did. We are dividing our other retirement accounts, but our divorce decree says nothing about social security. Am I entitled to…
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My wife and I always agreed that we would send our daughter to private school. Now that we’re splitting up, she says that she can’t afford it – even though she earns the same salary. Will the court make her stick to her promise?
Answer
Maybe.
An Order of Child support sets out the…
The Child Relocation Statute (RCW 26.09.430-560) requires the parent with whom the child resides primarily to give the other parent 60 days notice of any plan to move outside his or her present school district. If you can’t give 60 days notice (for example, because you did not know about the move in time) you need to give notice as…
April 23, 2009 – 10:40 am
Washington State child support orders set out each parent’s responsibility for the child’s Extraordinary Medical Expenses.
This provision is found at paragraph 3.19 of the pattern form child support order.
An extraordinary medical expense is a medical expense which in one month amounts to more than 5% of the child support transfer payment.
If you are the parent receiving…