Are You Liable for Your Spouse’s Bad Tax Deeds? It pays to be married. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the majority of married couples receive an average $1,300 tax bonus simply for saying “I Do.” However, there is significant tax liability that comes with filing a joint return with your....Read More

What Happens To My Retirement Account After a Divorce?              

Retirement accounts are one of the most divided assets in any divorce proceeding. Whether you have a qualified plan such as a 401(k) or a non-qualified plan such as an IRA, it is....Read More

Listen to Rich Harris tonight - October 19th at 10 pm on Channel 7 News!

There is a public outcry over the recent incident involving 6-year old, Falcon Heene.  Heene’s parents, Richard and Mayumi, of Fort Collins, Colorado, are under criminal investigation by the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office....Read More

Stephen Vertucci, a family law attorney at The Harris Law Firm, is noticing a disturbing trend in cases involving relatively few assets and a marital residence that has decreased in value in today’s declining real estate market.  The marital home was often a married couple’s greatest asset, but when it has....Read More

It is not common knowledge that divorce is actually a social phenomenon in existence since the time of ancient Mesopotamia.  This suggests that the roots of our collective disillusionment with the institution of marriage have some deep, and perhaps meaningful, roots. To understand the meaning of a problem is often the....Read More