Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce in Utah During the Pandemic If you’re going through a divorce and you have young children, the COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity for you to teach your children how to cope with difficult times. It shows your ability to communicate with the other parent,…
Set Rules The COVID-19 Pandemic has given us an opportunity to fine-tune our co-parenting skills. With your child going back and forth between households, it’s important to set up consistent rules to be followed by both households in order to keep everyone safe. If you’ve been staying home, aggressively washing…
We all know the value of trusting your gut. It is a survival instinct that keeps us safe and guides countless everyday choices. Divorce, though, is one of the few situations where your instincts and your best interests can pull in opposite directions. Emotions run high, the stakes are enormous,…
Cost Vs. The Outcome Everything seems to be going well with the marriage. Then one day, what you believed to be true, isn’t. Your spouse is cheating on you. The anger and betrayal you feel are all normal. So is the desire to make the paramour or other person pay….
High Stress The pandemic has affected our lives in so many ways. We scrub our hands so often we wonder if we are developing a compulsive disorder. We watch as strangers battle it out over the dwindling supplies of toilet paper, bleach, and antibacterial wipes. We worry and stress about…
Each Path Has Its Difficulties It’s said that divorce is worse than death. But grief isn’t meant to be a contest. Still, we ask: Who suffers more, the widow or the divorcee? What are the differences? How are they similar? Life after the loss of a spouse is forever changed….
Communicating Makes Things Easier Talking with your spouse during a divorce can be difficult. Maybe a lack of good communication was a contributing factor in your breakup. Now you may feel: angry hurt overwhelmed It’s a stressful time, to say the least. In many cases, particularly those involving young children,…
A Look at Gardner v. Gardner 2019 UT 61 Fault in Utah Utah is NOT a “fault” state, which means that when Utah Commissioners and Judges are determining child custody or asset division in divorce, they don’t take into account if it was one spouse’s fault (like cheating); the at-fault…
How It Started As I celebrate the 5-year anniversary of CoilLaw, I reflect upon the things that led to me going from associate attorney to entrepreneur and being managing partner and owner at my own firm. In 2014, I had been working for large, prestigious firms for 7 years, but…
Parenting Plan Legal Custody is the decision-making process regarding your children’s major issues. A few years ago, the legislature made it so that the default is that both parties would have Joint Legal Custody. This means that you would create what’s called a Parenting Plan, which is basically a road…
How to Survive and Thrive When Your Marriage Ends