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Your Financial Life after Divorce

After your divorce you are likely going to be living on substantially less income, especially if you and your spouse both worked. The strain is going to be even greater on the custodial parent who will have to not only pay for housing and other expenses alone but also take care of the children as well. If the non-custodial parent has a good paying job and doesn’t attempt to pass blame on the other spouse, life is likely to be easier. If you can work out a mutual agreement for child support and spousal support until a final decision from the court, it will take the strain off of learning how to live on your own without a second income.

If your spouse handled paying the bills during your marriage, this is going to be a difficult transition. If you were a stay at home mom who must now return to work as a single mom, it will be even more difficult. If you sense your marriage is going to end, take that time beforehand to look for a job and get settled into it. Do not think because you have always been a stay at home mom that your husband is going to continue supporting you after the divorce even if it was his idea for you to stay home. He may assist for awhile until you get settled, but you will need to become self-supporting in the short-term.

One of the first things you want to do is get an estimate of your income after taxes. Once you know how much you have coming in you can estimate your expenses. You can include spousal support and child support if you and your spouse have discussed these issues and you know what will be forthcoming. For the non-custodial parent, you want to include these items as part of your outgoing income. Keep in mind that alimony is taxable income for the person being paid and a deduction from income from the person paying it, but child support is neither taxable for the recipient nor deductible for the person paying.

Once you have all of your income and expenses in order, you will be ready to assume life as a single spouse and/or parent. If you’ve been married for several years—or at least been with your spouse for some time—you may find the transition into single life difficult. You are used to having someone in the house, someone else to cook and clean for or someone to do your cooking and cleaning and now you must go it alone. You will also find the quiet unnerving at first even if there are children around to keep you occupied.

One of the first things you want to do is find a new circle of friends, ones that are single. That doesn’t mean you need to disassociate from those married friends, but if you want to get back into the world of dating, you need to find friends who are also single and looking to date. This is the final step, however, after you have everything else in order and are ready to begin your new single life.

Efficiency of Field Sobriety Tests

Field Sobriety Tests (FSTs) have been used by police for many years to prove a driver is under the influence of alcohol, but how accurate are these tests? There may be a number of reasons a person will fail a Field Sobriety Test. In order to understand why an FST may produce inaccurate results, let’s look at how these tests are conducted.

• The driver is asked to stand with arms down and one leg suspended about six inches from the ground
• The driver must walk a straight line with the heel of the foot that is stepping at the toe of the other foot then turn around and come back
• The driver must track a moving object with his eyes while keeping his head still

The problem with any of these tests is there can be any number of reasons a driver is unable to perform any of these tasks including the simple inability to do them. Some people may not have the momentum to stand on one foot or walk a straight line and will thus fail the test even when completely sober.

It stands to reason that if you are asked to participate in an FST, the police officer feels he has reason to believe you have been drinking. This may include driving in the middle of the road, weaving along the road or simply being randomly selected at a sobriety checkpoint. If you fail the tests but are not drinking, your attorney may choose to challenge the evidence in court. The accuracy of FSTs can be affected by several factors including the age and weight of the driver, the health of the driver, and even the road conditions under which the test is conducted.

Another factor that may affect the accuracy of FSTs is the experience of the police officer conducting the test. An experienced officer will have the ability to detect whether a driver is under the influence or is taking medication that does not necessarily affect their ability to drive but may affect their equilibrium. All of these factors should be considered before any decision should be made about a driver’s ability to drive or whether he or she is DUI.

Although these tests have a high level of inaccuracy, they are the best that exists in many areas. There are some field breathalyzer tests, but these again can be inaccurate—mouth wash can render a positive reading on a breathalyzer test, for example. The most accurate way to handle these situations is for the police officer not to base a decision on these tests alone but to ask the driver to submit to a blood test at the hospital or another facility. These needs to be done immediately following the traffic stop of it will be inaccurate as well as alcohol levels will reduce with the passage of time. In most states a driver’s refusal to submit to a sobriety test in Raleigh, North Carolina is viewed as evidence of guilt.

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Personal negligence – insurance companies can step in and take back the proceeds from the award…thank the federal government for this one according to the article…at many as two thirds of insurance policies are subject to the ERISA law…good read on the ERISA law…BD

Minnesota schoolteacher Tom Carey mortgaged his house in order to finance a medical malpractice lawsuit against the doctors and hospital whose medical blunders resulted in the prolonged, agonizing and painful death of his wife, Barbara. When the doctors settled, his wife’s health insurance company tried to take it all away. A radiologist missed a spot on his wife’s CT scan. The spot the doctor missed showed that his wife’s cancer had returned. This mistake allowed the cancer to grow for another year. By the time it was discovered, the tumor was the size of a football. At this late point radiation was the only chance of saving her. Unfortunately however the radiation was so strong that it ate up her intestines. Therefore, all the food that she ate went into her entire body because her intestines were like jelly.

When Barbara’s health insurance company got wind of Tom’s medical malpractice lawsuit, it slapped a $1.4 million lien against the potential proceeds of the suit.

Barbara’s health insurance company insisted on receiving $60,000.00 from the proceeds of the malpractice settlement before it would drop its lien. Tom had no choice but to pay up.

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