Skilled Attorneys Specializing in Gray Divorce
Gray Divorce
Gray divorce is a divorce involving spouses who are 50 or older. These couples are entering a different phase of life and may have different ideas about how to spend their time. But splitting up in your senior years can bring a unique set of challenges, for which you’ll need a skilled lawyer to navigate. Goranson Bain Ausley, the largest law firm in Texas exclusively practicing family law, includes some of the best and most well-respected lawyers in the state and can help you find the right divorce attorney specializing in gray divorce to help you move forward with the divorce process in a way that is mindful of the life you and your spouse have built and the future you envision for yourself in this new stage of life.
Unique Issues That an Attorney Specializing in Gray Divorce Can Help Navigate
For couples over 50, getting a divorce is never easy. A gray divorce often includes additional considerations because couples are more likely to have amassed community property and assets that will need to be divided.
Common questions that may arise in a gray divorce include:
- What Happens to Your Retirement Benefits? Pensions and retirement accounts are considered community assets during a divorce in Texas, and a gray divorce is no different. These assets will need to be divided between the divorcing spouses. This can lead one or both spouses to come up short of the money they need to get through their golden years. Social Security benefits are not subject to division in a divorce, but if the spouse receiving these benefits is required to pay spousal support, they may end up dipping into their benefit check to do so.
- Whose Property Is Whose? Texas is a community property state. This means that most of your assets are considered to be jointly owned. However, either spouse may have come to the marriage with their own separate property. But over the course of a long marriage, it’s easy for the line between separate and community property to become blurred; decades after the marriage began, it can be difficult to prove that a certain asset belongs to only you and not your spouse.
- Will You Still Have Health Insurance? If you’re retired but covered under your employed spouse’s health insurance, that coverage will end when the marriage ends. This is the worst time of life to be left without insurance, so you’ll need to plan out how you’ll get coverage before the divorce is finalized.
A skilled divorce attorney will walk you through issues such as these and help you put together an appropriate plan for your new life following divorce. any others that arise in your case.
Get Help From a Divorce Lawyer Experienced in “Gray Divorce”
No matter what stage of life you’re in or how long you’ve been married, divorce is hard, but that doesn’t mean you have to go through it alone. Goranson Bain Ausley’s divorce lawyers with experience in gray divorce can help you to make the right decisions for your future. Our strategy for divorce starts and ends with you, which is why during our initial consultation, we take the time to get to know you, your goals, your concerns, and the unique issues that may come up during the divorce process.
You deserve a lawyer with the knowledge and empathy to support you throughout the process of a gray divorce. At Goranson Bain Ausley, we have multiple attorneys specializing in gray divorce who to assist you. Contact us today for a consultation with our client-centered divorce law firm and let us advise you on your next steps.
Awards & Credentials
- Thomas P. Goranson 1997
- Thomas L. Ausley 1997
- Diana S. Friedman 1998
- Thomas A. Greenwald 2003
- Kathryn J. Murphy 2004
- Eric Robertson 2007
- Kelly Ausley-Flores 2009
- Cindy V. Tisdale 2010
- Kristal Thomson 2014
- Aimee Pingenot Key 2015
- Kristen A. Algert 2017
- P. Lindley Bain 2020
- Ryan R. Bauerle 2022
- Lindsey Obenhaus 2023
- Charla Davies 2024
- John J. Kappel 2024
- Angeline Lindley Bain 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008
- Hayley Collins Blair 2021 2018
- Kevin Davidson 2025
- Jeff Domen 2025
- Esther R. Donald 2025
- Diana S. Friedman 2017 2016 2015 2013
- Thomas P. Goranson 2011 2009 2008
- Thomas A. Greenwald 2022 2018 2012 2011 2009 2008
- Aimee Pingenot Key 2025 2024 2020 2019 2017
- Beth E. Maultsby 2010
- Kathryn J. Murphy 2024 2023 2020 2019 2018 2017 2010 2009 2008
- Lindsey Obenhaus 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021
- Katie Flowers Samler 2020 2019 2018
- Thomas L. Ausley 1980
- Gary L. Nickelson 1984
- Kathryn J. Murphy 1995
- Diana S. Friedman 1996
- Kristen A. Algert 1997
- Thomas A. Greenwald 1997
- Eric Robertson 1997
- Kelly Ausley-Flores 2000
- Curtis W. Harrison 2002
- Cindy V. Tisdale 2003
- Jeff Shore 2006
- Clint Westhoff 2006
- Jeff Domen 2009
- Kristal Thomson 2009
- Angel J. Berbarie 2010
- P. Lindley Bain 2012
- Aimee Pingenot Key 2012
- Kevin Davidson 2017
- Charla Davies 2017
- Rob Frazer 2018
- Ryan R. Bauerle 2018
- Hayley Collins Blair 2019
- Lindsey Obenhaus 2019
- Katie Flowers Samler 2019
- Jonathan James 2020
- John J. Kappel 2020
- Chris Nickelson 2021
- Chandler Rice Winslow 2023
- Kristiana Butler 2024
- Cassidy Pearson 2024
- Angelica Rolong Cormier 2024
- Mona Hosseiny Tovar 2026
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