Year: 2017

Your Money: Splitting retirement accounts is tricky for DIY divorce

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Source: www.reuters.com   Your Money: Splitting retirement accounts is tricky for DIY divorceIf you are trying to have a low-cost, do-it-yourself divorce, it may seem reasonable to just split up the retirement assets and each go your separate ways.While many couples dissolve their marriages without significant legal involvement, divvying up retirement accounts, particularly pensions, is thorny. Doing it without a proper legal agreement could... [...]

Mother accused of murdering daughter continues legal fight against child’s dad | Miami Herald

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Tina Farrington, though in jail custody awaiting trial for murder, appeared in family court Tuesday in domestic-violence case against former boyfriend.Source: www.miamiherald.com   Mom accused of dumping dead daughter in trash fights to keep dad, a cop, from other childTina Farrington is facing life behind bars for allegedly smothering her young daughter and dumping the body in a trash bin – but she is still picking a family-court fight... [...]

How Tax Reform Could Radically Change Divorce

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Source: www.forbes.com   How Tax Reform Could Radically Change DivorceA proposed dramatic change to the tax rules of divorce in the House Republicans’ tax reform bill (the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) would undoubtedly create additional burdens to couples getting divorced if it becomes law.The bill would eliminate the tax deduction for alimony and make alimony income tax-free to the recipient for divorce decrees executed after December 31, 2017;... [...]

Rand Paul’s mysterious week – CNNPolitics

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Source: www.cnn.com   Mystery deepens surrounding Rand Paul injuryIt's a case so mysterious that it borders on preposterous: A US senator allegedly tackled by a neighbor while mowing his lawn, an attack so vicious that Rand Paul ended up with six fractured ribs and bruises to his lungs that made it hard to breathe.There were no known witnesses as Rene Albert Boucher, an anesthesiologist and former colleague who has lived next door for 17... [...]

Cameras roll as armed robber shoots man in NW Dade | Miami Herald

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An armed robber on a bicycle rolled up to man who had just walked out of a Northwest Miami-Dade food market, demanded money and then shot him in the face, police said.Source: www.miamiherald.com   Man shot in the face in robbery, cops say. Confrontation caught on camera.An armed robber on a bicycle rolled up to man who had just walked out of a Northwest Miami-Dade food market, demanded money and then shot him in the face, police said.Much of... [...]