Las Vegas Divorce Law Blog

As Las Vegas couples move through the process of divorce, it is easy to overlook many details that seem fairly inconsequential at the time but which, if overlooked, could result in significant trouble down the road. One of these commonly-overlooked details is health insurance. Under most employer-provided insurance policies, the finalization of a divorce means the end of insurance coverage for the non-employee spouse.

In order to avoid this, some couples choose to get a legal separation instead of a divorce in an attempt to maintain insurance coverage. While this may work in some situations, it is important to check with your provider before going this route. Some companies consider a legal separation to be the same as divorce for insurance coverage purposes, so the non-employee spouse could end up uninsured anyway.

The ex-wife of a notable Las Vegas millionaire will not be allowed to collect her divorce settlement payment in a single lump sum instead of receiving smaller payments every month for nearly a decade.

The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in favor of Abigail Schwartz, the ex-wife of Las Vegas businessman Milton I. Schwartz. According to the divorce ruling, Abigail will receive her $420,000 alimony payment in a lump sum, instead of receiving monthly payments of $5,000 for seven years as was dictated by the couple's divorce order.

If you have ever filed for divorce in Las Vegas, you know that starting the divorce process can be daunting. There are so many divorce professionals out there - family law attorneys, mediators, financial advisors and the like - that finding the right people to place on your 'divorce team' can be a monumental task. Often, people hire divorce lawyers based on the recommendation of a friend or an online review, only to learn later that the attorney was not the right lawyer for their situation. This can be a costly, time-consuming error.

In an effort to help people avoid these errors, one entrepreneur has created an event aimed at allowing divorcing people to meet, get to know and choose the right divorce professionals to guide them through the process. Called 'speed divorcing,' the event follows the format of speed dating, where participants spend 15 or so minutes talking to each professional before the buzzer goes on and they move on to the next person. Instead of potential suitors, however, participants are meeting divorce lawyers, financial advisors, mortgage brokers, therapists and others who are often necessary to navigate a divorce.

It has long been believed that the parents of a child who is battling cancer or another terminal disease are more likely to divorce than parents who do not have ill children, due to the added stress, sorrow and financial pressure that often accompany such an illness. But according to a new study, that may not be the case.

In the study, Danish researchers looked at about 47,000 couples over the course of 20 years to determine whether the parents of children with cancer are more or less likely to divorce than the parents of healthy children. Specifically, they examined public registry data for the parents of 2,450 children who were diagnosed with cancer between 1980 and 1997. For each ill child, researchers compared 18 healthy children of the same gender and age.