Couples divorce for all kinds of reasons. Some petitions are due to very serious issues, which may include physical abuse, drug or alcohol addiction, or infidelity. More commonly, though, parties don’t get into nitty-gritty specifics when making their initial filing with the court. In fact, most of the proceedings in our state simply cite an irretrievable breakdown (i.e. just not being in…

Many people assume that all property and assets that you accumulated before the marriage is automatically separate and therefore “non-marital” property.  As a logical extension of that, property and assets that are accumulated during the marriage is assumed to be “marital.”  Unfortunately in Massachusetts, that is not the case and that is not the law. Absent a prenuptial agreement which would designate…

You may qualify for an annulment if you can show one or more of the following: You entered the marriage in good faith, but at the time of the marriage, you were induced to enter into the marriage through fraud perpetrated by your spouse The marriage is void by reason of incest, consanguinity, affinity, or polygamy Either you or your spouse did…