Emotional And Financial Costs Of Divorce Are On The Rise
How Much Will Your Divorce Cost You? While divorce rates have been in a slight decline in recent years, the emotional and financial effects of divorce are rising exponentially. Battles and bickering over…
Planning Holidays After a Divorce
Parenting as a single parent during the holidays can be tough. Some advance planning will save you from some of the holiday stress, however. In our practice, we find that a well thought…
Keeping Your Divorce Information Private
Divorce Privacy Did you know that divorce files are open to anyone? At one time divorce files could be “sealed” so that no one other than the parties or their attorney could look…
Make Certain To Include Tax Planning In Your Divorce
Warning! Don’t violate the Child Contingency Rule! If any amount of alimony specified in the divorce decree is reduced (a) upon the happening of any contingency related to the child or (b) at…
Taking Control of Your Divorce
Taking Control Your Life And Your Divorce Most of my work as a divorce attorney is with mature couples who are working cooperatively and respectfully to divorce. Every now and then I get a divorce…
The Decision to Separate
Once the decision to separate has been made… there are a number of other issues to settle. If the decision to separate has been made in isolation, there is the matter of informing…
Parental Alienation or Discredited “Syndrome”
Parental Alienation or Discredited “Syndrome” Has Practical Relevance Dr. Richard Gardner, psychiatrist, first described something he called “parental alienation syndrome ” now known as “Discredited syndrome” in 1985 to explain problematic behavior in…
Divorce: What if court Wasn’t An Option?
Divorce can be difficult. Couples are intertwined emotionally, financially, residentially, socially and parentally. The goal of divorce is to unravel the interconnections so the parties may resume a life as independent of each…
Check the Pulse First Before Declaring Divorce
Pulling The Plug on the Marriage or the Divorce? There was an episode on a TV medical drama where a patient was awaiting delivery of a liver from an organ donor. An intern…
Parenting Plans From Children’s Point Of View
Children’s Wish List, Number One Children in low conflict situations, the parents may not get along well, but perhaps well enough to stay in the same house, maybe not the same bedroom, but…
