Columbus Family Law Blog

Shared visitation is usually challenging for divorced parents, no matter how well they may get along. This is especially true during the summer months, when the parent who usually has less visitation time may have the children for a longer period. Ohio parents may benefit from learning how to manage visitation during summer vacation.

Typically, divorced parents switch off time with their children every other week, or the noncustodial parent may have the children on weekends. This can be difficult for children and parents to get accustomed to, as the Huffington Post explains. Younger children may react to changing schedules and uncertain situations by regressing socially and needing more attention from each parent. Older children can respond by acting out, withdrawing and performing poorly in school. Often, especially with help from counselors and love and reassurance from parents, children eventually adjust to their visitation schedules.

Prenuptial agreements have been around for a while, but they have really grown in popularity in recent years. Millennials, in particular, have discovered the advantages, and many lawyers around the United States have reported an increase in the number of couples asking about prenups. 

Prenups are useful for hammering out financial details of a divorce, which can prevent a lot of headaches if the marriage leads to that. However, a judge may throw out an entire prenup if it includes details the law does not allow. Couples need to be aware of these limitations, so they do not jeopardize the integrity of the document. 

As you and your fiancé plan your Ohio wedding, try not to become so caught up in dresses, tuxedos, flowers, gifts and all the other warm fuzzies inherent in a wedding that you forget the realities and practicalities of a marriage. The sad truth is that the U.S. divorce rate has hovered at around 50 percent for the past 30 years, meaning that you and your beloved stand a one in two chance that you will not live happily ever after together.

Entering into a prenuptial agreement before you marry could save both of you a great deal of heartache and acrimony sometime down the road if indeed your marriage ends in divorce. Unlike the stereotypical view that only wealthy couples have prenups, signing a prenup may benefit couples of all economic backgrounds to strategically plan for their future. Your prenup establishes the basic financial "rules" of your marriage so each of you remains financially secure no matter what happens.

Attempting to hide assets during an Ohio divorce is not new. What is new, however, is the way in which some high-asset spouses do it. If you have not heard of Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies, you should research them and how they work if you suspect that your spouse is hiding assets from you. You also should alert your attorney to them so that (s)he can investigate whether or not your spouse is using them.

A cryptocurrency, a/k/a digital currency, is a “geeky” form of money. Actually, Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies are not money at all in the way we normally use that word. You cannot see or touch them. They are virtual money that more and more people are using to buy merchandise and more and more merchants are accepting as payment.