Military Divorce

If you research how to get a divorce without typing in any additional search terms, then you'll likely come across a lot of information mentioning how you're required to file for divorce in the state where you maintain legal residency. This rule of thumb doesn't...

Military service members and veterans in Washington and the rest of the United States are required to pay child support for their custodial and non-custodial children. The federal regulations pertaining to child support enhance state-level laws by ensuring that...

Military couples in Washington might be less likely to divorce than in previous years. Divorce in the military has been on a slow decline in the last decade, and a 3% divorce rate in 2018 represented a 0.1% drop from the previous year. The rate is calculated over...

When one or both divorced parents of a child are members of the military, arranging child visitation can be a complicated matter. Just like non-military families, visitation for military members is established in family court through a custody agreement that's...

Americans who serve in the U.S. Military make substantial sacrifices for their country. In addition to risking death, many who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home with permanent and life-changing injuries – both physical and psychological.When...

We are discussing adultery.It may surprise many to learn that adultery is still illegal in 21 states (Washington is not one of them). The laws are slowing going by the wayside -- New Hampshire, for example, voted this month to repeal its adultery law -- but they still...

There has been a new development in an interesting divorce case out of Spanaway. A 34-year-old mother of three has pleaded not guilty to theft and forgery charges stemming from what the News Tribune is calling a fake divorce.The woman and her husband, an Army ranger...

Any Washington resident who is in the military or has a military spouse may find a study by the RAND Corporation interesting. Researchers evaluated the correlation between divorce and deployment during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. More than 462,000 members of the...

Ask any service member in Washington about their marriage and they will more than likely tell you that it’s a constant balancing act. Juggling family, friends, and a sense of duty to your country can be full-time jobs of their own. Throw in numerous deployments...