Divorce is always messy. With the ending of your relationship with your spouse and your need to separate your financial affairs as well as your personal affairs, you lose something else. Your privacy. By availing yourself of the state-operated machinery of the...
Consider for a moment what it would be like to face an escalated drunk-driving charge. Chances are you’d react similarly to many of our Columbia readers and would be incredibly scared. That’s because you, like most people, understand that the decision to operate a...
Addictive and compulsive behavior can be damaging to any marriage. Alcohol and other drugs have broken many a marriage in Missouri, as one spouse demonstrates their true love for their chemical dependency, to the exclusion of the their real, human spouse. Some have...
If you’ve been arrested and charged with a drunk-driving offense, you’ve probably had the thought that many of our Columbia readers have had. You’ve probably thought that your life was over. Not literally of course, but you — like so many before you — understand the...
There’s an old saying that familiarity breeds contempt. And if not actual contempt, it may breed indifference. The human brain often focuses on novelty. Whether the latest movie from Hollywood or rock in our shoe, we notice things that are new. And because our brains...
