Last month, we met a group of women at Sonoma Wine Bar and Bistro in Virginia Beach’s trendy Town Center area for Girl’s Night Out. We had a great turnout, with tons of current and former clients, some mental health professionals, financial professionals, artists, writers, parenting seminar coordinators, marketing gurus, mortgage lenders, Mary Kay consultants,...
Monthly Archive: July 2014
If you could do anything, what would you do? Because, as depressing as it is sometimes to think about getting a divorce, you’re finally going to have the opportunity to do whatever you wish you would have done earlier on in your life. Do you want to write a book? Go back to school? Join...
Everyone knows that divorces tend to be long, drawn out, complicated, and very, very expensive. Most people don’t really know exactly how expensive or how long (or why it’s expensive and takes a long time), they just know that it’s generally pretty bad and they’d like to avoid all that unpleasantness, if at all possible....
I spend a lot of time writing about how things typically progress in a “normal” divorce where husband and wife are two relatively reasonable, rational people. They usually want their divorce to proceed quickly and efficiently, with as few legal hiccups as possible. Their chief concerns are dividing the kids and the money, and, though...
All sorts of reasons drive couples to divorce, and there’s really not a “one size fits all” answer. Virginia is both a fault and a no fault state, which means that you really don’t have to have a reason to qualify to get a divorce. (Though, of course, I’m not suggesting that you don’t have...
Divorce is hard. And life is hard. Things are constantly changing, there are a number of different setbacks periodically, and we all sometimes suffer disappointment from a sudden change in plans, with or without a divorce on the horizon. Markets crash, unexpected emergencies arise, and accidents inevitably happen, particularly when we don’t feel exactly prepared...
On Wednesday, we met a group of women at Sonoma Wine Bar and Bistro in Virginia Beach’s chic Town Center area for a couple mid-week hours of fun. We’ve been trying to plan events like this every four to six weeks or so in an effort to help our current and former clients get back...
On Monday, we talked about the choices you can make at the beginning of your divorce to help keep your costs as low as possible. If you haven’t had a chance to read that piece, you really should! Just click here, and we’ll take you right to it. Today, we’re going to talk about how...