Modern Arizona

Send us Fan Mail

Texas Divorce Attorney Bryan Walters is back on the Modern Divorce Podcast for another great talk with Billie Tarascio about the legal details behind Bill and Melinda Gates' recent divorce.  As many as 75% of marriages end because the wife calls it quits, and when there's a lot of money on the table, the wives can often end up with much less than their spouses if they don't take the right legal steps and position themselves to negotiate better outcomes.

The discussion also touches on the differences between their two states, Arizona and Texas, and how that affects the divorces of people dealing with children, child support and splitting up businesses.

You can find Bryan Walters at Walters Gilbreath PLCC in Austin, Texas.

Send us Fan Mail

What happens to someone when they divorce and their church friends and support groups start disappearing, or even begin to reject you outright? For some church is a refuge that's uplifting. But finding oneself at odds with church standards and has pushed many a divorced person to rethink their religious beliefs.

Enter Wendi Jensen, who talks with Modern Divorce Podcast Host Billie Tarascio about how she remade herself into a new person after divorce by looking at her beloved church in a whole new light. Now a professional coach who teaches deprogramming skills for people  coming away from a high-demand religion, she and Billie talk about the dark details of her transition to self discovery and relief.
 
Find Wendi at WendiJensen.com.

Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, Modern Divorce host Billie Tarascio talks with the Spunky Spriritualist, Dr. Tiffany Nguyen, who helps people create their best life after divorce and breakups. As a full time pharmacist who understands the world of medications, in her role as a life coach she uses critical thinking and the right questions to guide people to get past their personal traumas to a newer, happier self.

She traces thought patterns through their origins to get down to the bottom of why we do what we do. Particularly for people who have experienced divorce, this discussion has some great words of advice for moving forward with a positive new outlook. 

Send us Fan Mail

In this fascinating look at the effects of Divorce, Modern Divorce host Billie Tarascio talks with Mark Anderson, Modern Law's social media manager, about how his parents' divorce still reverberates in many ways today. For instance, as a step parent himself, he finds himself understanding and agreeing with the things his stepfather did and said. But there's more...

Navigating the broken relationships over the years of family members can have a definite impact on our lives and the lives of our children. This discussion opens up a subject that gets little attention, but nevertheless affects so many of us.

Send us Fan Mail

In this final episode of the Baby William series, we learn the truth of what happened to missing Baby William and his mother Madeline Jones after a police detective tips off the legal team.  Attorney Billie Tarascio describes that moment, while Andrea Gouchenour talks about how the crime affected her family. The baby's father, Jake Gouchenour, now three years later and happily remarried, reflects on what's next in his life for both him and his son.

Send us Fan Mail

When Baby William's Grandmother, Andrea Gouchenour and her sister Rachel Guernsey drive around town to put up posters for the missing baby and her mother, Madeline Jones, they're shocked to see Madeline's mother Cassie, making her youngest daughter tear the posters down while she waits in a car. That's when their thinking changes. 

Setting up with the evidence they've collected, the two women start poring over phone call and bank records from the Jones family's phones looking for a pattern. That's when they discover something that provides the first real break in the case, using Modern Law's Billie Tarascio to push some buttons, along with a group of Facebook sleuths.

Send us Fan Mail

In this 3rd episode of the special series on Missing Baby William, we hear from some of the main family members involved in the case, and what family law attorney Billie Tarascio can do to ferret out more information to find baby William Gouchenour.

By this time, during a typical hot Arizona summer, weeks and weeks have passed with no real news on the missing baby. Meanwhile police are combing through barns in Montana trying to determine if the baby's father Jake or another of his family members has hidden or kidnapped the young mother and her child. The family - and the websleuths - are anxious for any new information to develop.

But when Jake's mom and aunt discover something weird being done by Maddie's mother, their suspicions that someone is lying become all too clear.

Send us Fan Mail

On this episode of the Modern Divorce podcast, a growing group of social media sleuths begin forming, drawn in by the mysterious disappearance of a young mother and her baby in Mesa , AZ, after a contentious divorce. 

Destinee Mack, who describes herself on Twitter as a wife, mom and random altruist, was the unexpected center of the unexpected band of 12,000 online strangers who came forward offering help to find Baby William. Her Facebook group to "Find Maddie and Baby William"  offered information and a place to share theories, stories, and sometimes gossip. She played housemother over the group and intervened occasionally to keep comments from devolving into the ugly. 

But her role as an unintended advocate for Baby William was not without a cost to her.  She was eventually slapped with a gag order to cease her online activities. A judge thought she was a problem, but she thought it was clear the group was getting closer to the truth.

Send us Fan Mail

In this first part of a 5-part series, the Modern Divorce Podcast does a deep dive into the tangled events of a divorce gone bad between two young parents. 

The infant son of a young father, Jacob Gouchenour, along with the baby's mother, Madeline Jones, disappear on a June day in Mesa, Arizona not long after a family law judge orders that the two parents share parenting time.  Was she kidnapped, murdered, or the victim of an accident? Accusations fly between the families as law enforcement quietly begin a multi-state manhunt.

Modern Law's Billie Tarascio finds herself working to find a legal angle track them down, and does her best to keep the pressure on a campaign to find Baby William.

Send us Fan Mail

Think you're going to split everything down the middle in your divorce because you're in a community property state? Not so fast. There might be trouble ahead.

In this episode of the Modern Divorce podcast, host Billie Tarascio talks with Modern Law "Godfather" Don Colburn who shares the inside scoop for what you need to know when splitting up your stuff in a community property divorce settlement. How you keep your 'stuff' will be the key. You'll want to pay particular attention to the property and assets you brought into the marriage and whether that stuff got mixed together in joint bank accounts, down payments on property and more.

And inheritances? Even if you're not divorced and not planning on it, these cautionary tales will make you think about how you should or shouldn't cash that check.