In divorce, everything changes, especially the finances. Going from two incomes (to maintain just one household) to one income (maintaining the same household) can be jarring, especially if children are involved. When you add to it the costs of moving (including first and last month’s rent, security deposits, down payments, whatever), replacing the things that...
After Divorce
If you don’t already have plans, you should join us next week for our Girl’s Night Out event. We’ll be in Newport News this time (because one of our attorneys, Shannon Lemm, practices there, and we’ve got to show the Peninsula girls some love, too) at the Brewhouse Tavern in trendy Port Warwick. We were...
The holidays are in full swing! Now that it’s Black Friday, it seems like the inevitable rush towards Christmas is beginning. Not until January will you be able to pull up to any shopping center anywhere and find an easily accessible parking spot and, when you leave after having completed your errands, cars will follow...
On Tuesday night, our Girl’s Night Out Group met up at The Lucky Oyster in Virginia Beach. The weather was great, and everyone came in proudly sporting their “I Voted” stickers. Everyone was in high spirits, excited about the upcoming holiday season, and full of news about what they’ve been up to since we got...
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,...
If you and your child’s father are committed to co-parenting your children even after your final divorce decree is entered, you’re going to have to make a commitment to each other to continually and consistently put the children’s needs ahead of your own. It may sound easy, but it’s not, especially if you’ve spent the...
Whenever I tell someone what I do for a living, they tell me how sad or depressing that must be. I’m always surprised, even though by now I probably shouldn’t be. While it’s sad to think about a happy marriage ending, those aren’t the kinds of marriages I see. I see marriages where women are...
There is life after divorce. You may not realize it now, but there will come a time when you think about your divorce less and less. As time goes on, the old wounds heal. You’ll come out smarter, stronger, better than you were when you started the process, and you’ll have a better idea of...