The whole ‘filling out the birth certificate’ experience is a weird one. You’re in the hospital, you just had a baby, you are recovering from a major physical ordeal and may even still have been on pain medication at that point. The nurses have come in for a bajillion and one different things and even,...
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Everyone wants to save money in their divorce. Everyone wants it over with quickly. Everyone is worried. Everyone needs to feel some finality. Everyone has specific hot-button issues that they feel need to be resolved for them to feel at peace. The fact is, most people share a lot of the same concerns. In...
Christmas is a pretty popular time of year to get engaged. If your engagement ring is coming with a little bit more fine print than you expected, you’re in the right place. A prenuptial agreement is a legal contract – like any other contract – and it basically defines the rules that will apply to...
It’s never easy to find out – or suspect – that your husband is cheating on you with someone else. If you’ve come to that conclusion, let me say first that I am so sorry that you’ve found yourself here. I know that it’s a harrowing experience and that it’s difficult to know what...
These days, it seems like we’re all just seconds away from losing access to the pieces that keep our lives together. For parents, one of the biggest concerns is that, at any moment, a COVID-19 exposure or breakout could erupt, causing disruptions and limiting our access to our childcare providers and schools, totally disrupting our...
Not every woman who has been the victim of domestic violence during her marriage really realizes that about herself. There’s a general misconception, I think, that if you haven’t been beaten, or choked, or stabbed, or threatened with a gun or something similarly horrible, that your case doesn’t rise to the level of domestic violence....
In the beginning of a divorce, most women tell me that it feels a little bit like Pandora’s Box. They want more information, but they’re afraid that, if they take steps to get it, that it’ll start a chain of events that they can’t stop. Statistically, it’s probably true that a large number of...
Before you go through any big life change, especially one that has the potential to have such negative consequences, it’s important to think things through. Sometimes, you even have to go through your own grieving period before you’re ready to take action. For a lot of women, there’s a lot of separation and reconciliation...