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When Your Spouse Owns a Business

A few years back, I represented a woman whose husband owned a landscaping company. On paper, the company was losing money. According to his tax returns, he made less than his employees. But the family lived in a nice house in East Memphis. There were two late-model trucks in the driveway. The...

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Retirement Accounts in Divorce: QDROs and Why They Matter

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Nobody walks into a divorce thinking about their 401(k). They are thinking about the kids, the house, maybe the car. The retirement account feels abstract, like something future you will deal with. Then they find out how much is in it. And suddenly it is not abstract at all. Retirement...

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What Happens to the House in a Tennessee Divorce

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I had a client last year who wanted to keep the house more than she wanted almost anything else in the divorce. It was the place her kids had grown up. It was the neighborhood where she knew everyone. It was the only thing she felt she could control when everything else was falling apart. So...

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Domestic Violence and Divorce: How the Law Connects Them

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This one is harder to write than most of what I put on this blog. Not because the law is complicated, but because the people reading it are sometimes in situations that are dangerous and frightening and need more than legal information. So I want to be direct. If you are in an unsafe...

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Military Divorce in Tennessee: A Different Set of Rules

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I have a lot of respect for the men and women who serve this country. And one of the ways I try to show it is by making sure that when they come through my door going through a divorce, I know the rules that apply specifically to them. Because military divorce has a different set of...

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What Your Social Media Is Saying to the Judge

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A client of mine posted a photo on a Friday night. Just a normal night out. Friends, drinks, big smiles. Nothing she would have thought twice about. Her ex’s attorney showed it to the judge the following Tuesday to argue she was an irresponsible parent. She kept custody. But she spent...

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How Child Support Gets Calculated in Tennessee

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If I had a dollar for every time a client told me what they thought child support was going to be based on what their neighbor said, I could retire. (I am not retiring. But I could.) Child support in Tennessee is not a negotiation. It is not based on what seems fair to either parent. And it is...

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Irreconcilable Differences: What That Actually Means in Tennessee

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I had a client tell me once that she wanted a divorce because her husband chewed too loud. She was not joking. Or rather, she was joking about the chewing, but she was not joking about wanting out. What she was really saying was what most people mean when they say irreconcilable differences:...

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Divorce and Taxes: The Questions Nobody Thinks to Ask

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I am going to be upfront about something. In law school, I avoided the building where they taught tax law. I have made peace with that decision. I still do not sleep particularly well in April, but that is another matter. I am not a tax expert. I am a family law attorney. But every spring, the...

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Put the Phone Down. They Are Watching.

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I’ll confess something. I, Bill Jones, guy who should absolutely know better, was sitting at a red light on Poplar last Tuesday and caught myself reaching for my phone. Just instinct. Somebody texted me and my hand went for it like a reflex. Everybody feels the pull. That’s the...

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