Divorce brings with it inevitable change, and separating from your spouse often means new living arrangements, new child custody arrangements and a new social life, among other possible transitions. Divorcing your significant other also has important ramifications, come tax time, and recognizing how your divorce impacts your taxes can help you avoid making unnecessary or unintentional errors that can come back to bite you.
What to know about filing taxes after divorce
The race to divorce in 2018
Divorce is not generally an experience that people in California try to rush through, especially when they have to come to agreements on how to separate their joint assets and liabilities. This process can take some time and requires concessions and negotiations along the way. However, an imminent change to the federal tax laws may well be changing all of this, at least for the rest of the 2018 calendar year.
How are divorce and annulment different?
It is important for a California couple intending to end a marriage to understand the difference between a divorce and an annulment. Both are methods of putting a legal end to your marriage, but annulment is only available to you in very specific circumstances.
3 tips for smart social media usage amid divorce
Navigating your way through a California divorce can prove lonely and emotionally taxing, and if you are likely many people facing similar circumstances, you may rely on social media more than you once did during this time. While it makes sense that you may want to turn to your friends and reestablish old connections during a separation from your spouse to help combat feelings of loneliness, your use of social media may lead to more trouble than its worth. At the Law Office of Lily L. Huang, we understand the ways in which your use of social media can impact your divorce case, and we have helped many clients making their way through divorce make smart decisions relating to social media usage.
