According to the Pew Research Center (03/09/2017) Americans ages 40 and older are at an ever-increasing risk of divorce. From 1990 to 2015 the divorce rate rose 14% among those age 40 to 49, and 109% among those 50 and older. Besides the emotional stress of a divorce, you also have the stress of dividing […]
Often after the death of a spouse or a divorce, seniors find themselves in love again. But is marriage necessary? For financial reasons, many older couples make the decision to live together, but not get married. A partner who remarries stands to lose social security or a survivor’s pension. She (or he) may also lose […]
Now that same-sex marriage has gotten over a major hurdle and passed in New York State in 2011, the biggest hurdle will be getting it to become a “law of the land.” On the surface it seems that gay couples will be on even footing with heterosexual married couples—but that is not the case. Same-sex married […]