North Dakota provides an adoption assistance program to help and encourage families who adopt children who are in our foster care system who may not otherwise be able to find a permanent home. This assistance, in the form of a subsidy, helps families provide the...
Month: August 2014
How to avoid common ‘gray divorce’ mistakes
The concept of "gray divorce" has been written about a lot lately because people over 50 are in the only age group with growing divorce rates. However, there are special considerations that people who end their marriage after 50 need to keep in mind. The website...
Billionaire’s divorce outcome could resonate in North Dakota
A high-profile divorce case in Oklahoma includes a name that may be familiar to many of our North Dakota readers -- Harold Hamm. His company, Continental Resources, is the largest one in North Dakota's Bakken Shale formation. The Oklahoma City-based company reportedly...
Divorce can be difficult on adult children as well as young ones
The term "gray divorce" is becoming widely-used in North Dakota and across the country as the number of divorces among people 50 and older increases. About one-fourth of all divorces in this country involve older couples.Many people think that an advantage of waiting...
Link between dauthters and divorce a ‘more complicated story’
Over the years, social scientists have theorized about numerous factors that can be linked to divorce. One of those has been that couples whose first-born child is a girl are more likely to split up than those whose first child is a boy. It has been theorized that...