Helping Divorcing Clients Focus on Their Kids with a Coparenting Calendar
As a divorce mediator, your goal is to help your clients come to an agreement and stay focused on what’s important. For divorcing couples with children, we often talk about putting the kids first and avoiding negative behaviors like talking badly about the other...
How to Survive and Thrive Financially After a Divorce
Divorce can be devastating – the process of going through it, the events that led up to it. It is hard on the children, hard on your wallet, hard on your heart. But believe me, there will be a time when it is over, a time when you will be able to care for yourself...
Five Tips for Dating After Divorce in Your Forties
I married my first date. My second first date was at 47, after my decades long marriage ended abruptly. Dating in your 40s after divorce is not for the faint of heart. I figured a few things out along the way that might be helpful. DO YOUR HEALING WORK DIvorce is an...
Planning Your Financial Future After a Divorce
Imagine this. You’ve just spent the last year of your life finalizing your divorce. It’s been a long, emotional process but it’s finally over. And despite the initial sense of freedom, the overwhelming reality begins to set in—you are now on your own. Although this...
Did I Miss The Class on Getting Divorced? What I Wish I Knew
Most people don’t plan on getting divorced, never mind how to get ready for divorce. Some may decide to get a prenuptial agreement, but again, we rarely believe it’ll be necessary. Divorce is one of those subjects that’s talked about in hushed tones and low whispers,...
Should You Stay or Should You Go?
Deciding to stay in or leave your marriage is one of the most difficult decisions you’ll ever make. For most of us, the decision of whether to divorce is wrapped up in guilt and fear. Fear of financial insecurity, fear of being alone, and worst of all, fear of making...
Why a Divorce Lawyer Should Write Your Prenup
Signing off on a prenup without a lawyer is a mistake for a host of reasons. A few months ago, a friend, law school classmate and former roommate (i.e. someone who knows me and what I do really well), texted me looking for a referral for someone who knew how to write...
Does Mediation Work for Everyone? Only If You’re Both Ready And Able!
Mediation is an option that puts the control of decision-making in the hands of the participants, which is fabulous. It allows you to create a perfectly tailored agreement with a third party neutral mediator but for some it mediation may not work. Mediation can be...
How to Build Your Credit Score While Getting Divorced
Build Your Credit Score Money makes the world go round, but when it comes to relationships, it can cause a slew of issues, to the point that it can ruin a marriage altogether. Couples argue over how to spend money, what the other chooses to buy, and how to invest...
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