hgoldstein@gbpclawyers.com After months of uncertainty and differences between the House and Senate versions of the proposed new tax law, we now have a final decision on how it will deal with alimony. The tax deduction for alimony is unchanged until January 1, 2019. After that alimony will no longer be tax deductible. An agreement or judgment providing…
Author: Janet Wiseman
Janet Miller Wiseman, principal and owner, who works with several Certified Divorce and Financial Analysts, is an original co-founder of The Negotiation Collaborative in 1979 and the co-founder of the Mass Council on Family Mediation in 1982, an organization which provides high-level, bi-monthly continuing education to its members. Janet is a two-year past President of MCFM, the designee of the John Adams Fiske Award for Excellence in Mediation in 1982, and the original Director of Public Relations. Janet has thirty-nine years of experience in suggesting and co-crafting cost-effective, thoroughly researched, genuinely creative alternatives for settlement, not simply legalistic formulas.
senesandchwalek.com Social Security and the Graying of Divorce: Many people overlook Social Security benefits when getting divorced. While these benefits are not assets that a divorce court can divide, the rules about benefits are relevant to your post-divorce life. This is especially true for those getting divorced in their later years. If you are divorced,…
“The children didn’t ask for this divorce” shared the premier plasterer who scheduled his work day around meeting the children at their buses after school, doing homework with all three of them at their Mother’s home until she returned from her corporate job. Access to children and visitation by divorcing parents after divorce doesn’t mean…
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He gets the house after all
Anne and Sam, a couple in their early 60s, were living together three whole years until they had decided to enter divorce mediation. They were indeed stuck and absolutely miserable when they arrived here for their own custom divorce mediation. They could not decide, for the lives of them, who would keep and who would leave their…
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Divorce Need Not End The Family
The wisest of parents realize they can maintain their family unit after divorce. They may remain the best co-parents they can be, without needing to work at their couple relationship any more. It’s a relief. They know they are serving their children well. At age 18, I read an article in the New York Times…
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Addition To Our House For Mom
Adnan and Adriana, a couple in their mid-forties, without children, came into the office this fall especially for decision making mediation. Adriana’s seventy-five year old mother, Anna, was still healthy, engaging, and self-sufficient, and she wanted to live near some part of her family. Her other two adult children lived outside of the country in…
Imagine feeling secure about your cash flow into your 90s! When couples come in for divorce mediation serviced here in Lexington, Ma., in Greater Boston, they receive a “collaborative mediation” approach; the skills, strategies, and support of both myself as a divorce mediator, and of our specialized Certified Divorce and Financial Analyst. After presenting each…