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These days, it feels like there's an app or AI tool for just about everything, except for filing for divorce. As much as we’d love to say "there's an app for that," when it comes to the dissolution of marriage, child custody, or any other family law issue, the only thing standing between you and closure is a human family law attorney (that’s us). It's our job to sort through the legalities, finalize everything, and offer that sweet sense of finality.

If we had a penny for every time a millionaire or billionaire got married without signing a prenup, we’d have a couple of pennies. It’s not exactly a booming business, but it certainly happens more often than we’d like to admit. And each one of these headline-making marriages makes us question: Why?

Why keep neglecting something that’s clearly the smart choice?

In today's “no-prenup, no-problem” divorce, we’ve got David Geffen, legendary film producer, record executive, and multimillion-dollar mogul who recently divorced his husband of two years, David Armstrong, a 32-year-old dancer.

Discovering your wedding dress — the one you lovingly chose and has perfectly tailored — is destroyed beyond repair is every bride’s worst nightmare. It’s arguably even worse if the cause wasn’t an accident, but the carelessness of your mother-in-law.

When Brad Pitt dropped some nonchalant comments about his years-long divorce saga with Angelina Jolie, the tabloids lit up. Beneath the Hollywood glitz and vague soundbites, his words revealed a lot about how any complicated divorce works in the real world.

Divorce regret is a tough pill to swallow for many, and it's rarely something people admit to. But here's the inside scoop: we're in the know. And we're not just talking about our local clients. We're referring to a specific group of people who've experienced divorce regret firsthand: celebrities who apparently miss their exes quite a bit, and who we are sure have mourned their exes from their sprawling estates.

Ever wonder if saying, “Sure, I’ll donate sperm,” means you’re signing up to be a daddy with actual dad duties or just a generous DNA donor? Asking someone to be your sperm donor is perfectly legal, but does that arrangement automatically make the donor a legal father? Not quite.

There’s a time and place for passionate speeches. A courtroom? Yes. A heartfelt letter to your child? Sure. But a livestreamed rant on the internet? Not so much, especially if you're trying to win custody of your kids.

Just ask Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

France may be famous for love stories — think Cyrano de Bergerac, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or even the romantic allure of Paris itself — but its divorce laws? Not exactly a fairy tale.

In 2019, a woman known only by the initials H.W. faced a setback in her pursuit to divorce her husband.

Not everyone knows the highs and lows of moving into a post-divorce apartment. Some people get the marital home in the split, while others face the daunting task of fitting their new life into four walls that feel entirely alienating. If you've found yourself unpacking boxes in that post-divorce apartment, you know the excitement of freedom mixed with the unease of realizing that this new space is a stranger to you.

In Japan, there’s a concept known as “weekend marriage,” or "shumatsukon,” and it’s exactly as delightful and/or bizarre as it sounds (depending on how you view marriage). It's a marriage, but without all the usual trappings the rest of the world has come to expect.