Tucson Family Law Blog

In most joint custody arrangements, the court will consider one parent the non-custodial parent. This is often because the children will primarily live with one parent in order to maintain continuity of their lives. For example, if you and the other parent do not live in the same school district, the children would spend the majority of their time with the parent in that school district.

In addition, your schedule may not allow you to spend as much time with your children as you would like. Any number of reasons could prevent you from being the custodial parent, and now, you feel as though society puts you into a box because of it.

Being a doctor may have always been your dream job. From a young age, you may have kept yourself on the educational path to reach your career goal. Along the way, you also got married and maybe had some kids. All in all, you felt your life was heading in the right direction. Then, one day, your plans changed when your spouse announced that he or she wanted a divorce.

Whether this news came as a shock or you saw it coming for some time, you still have a lot of road to cover ahead. In particular, you will need to handle a number of legal and financial issues related to the dissolution of your marriage. Because you are a high-income professional, you may feel particularly worried about how a divorce will affect your financial situation.

You may remember those early holidays with the kids. With a schedule in mind, your family attended church services together, arrived at Grandma's for an afternoon feast, and perhaps darted to other holiday gatherings throughout the week. While those may have been hectic days, you may give anything to have them back.

The holidays after a divorce can be difficult for parents, especially if a custody arrangement does not allow those early traditions to continue. You may be grieving the loss of those memories as well as the breakup of your family, and certainly, you are feeling the emotions of having to divide the time you get to spend with your children. While the holidays may never be the way you imagined, there are ways you can get through them and retain some of the joy.

You may be someone who enjoys working hard but who is also looking forward to the day when you can retire. You likely have trips you want to take, sights you want to see and a number of other activities to which you look forward. Of course, you also know that having the retirement funds to cover these activities is vital.

You may have meticulously saved for retirement, and as you did so, you likely had your spouse in mind and his or her role in your retirement. However, you are now going through a divorce, and your well-built retirement security could face risks of taking hard hits as a result of the financial impacts of ending your marriage.