Every mother worries about the impact of her divorce or break up from her child’s father on her children. Even as much as she knows that she needs the break up – probably for about a million different reasons – considering the impact of that on the children involved can feel overwhelming. That’s especially true...
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I saw an ad on Facebook today for an online therapist. The tagline was “There is no shame in getting help.” I knew, of course, that the ‘help’ referenced in the ad was for a therapist, but it struck me that ‘help’ should really be more broadly applied. Why is it that when someone suggest...
There are few things quite as emotionally devastating as an affair. Ending a marriage is a big deal in any case, for any reason, but ending it because he was unfaithful stings even more. That’s one of the funny things about trauma. You can go through your life, perfectly happy, not knowing, and then suddenly...
This is a pretty easy one. The answer is no, we don’t offer a free consultation. There are a lot of reasons for this, but mostly it comes down to the difference between an audition and an informational meeting. You see, other attorneys – most notably personal injury, or PI, attorneys – offer free consultations...
If you’re not interested in having your divorce follow a predictable pattern, it’s really smart to consider collaborative divorce. After all, judges – and even attorneys – are often not that creative when it comes to options for dividing the assets, liabilities, and responsibilities of the parties. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve...
Being legally separated isn’t a comfortable place to be. Whether you’re living separate under the same roof or you’ve actually physically separated from your soon to be ex spouse, it’s not a period of time that many people look back on fondly. No matter what choices you’ve made, it’s a period of transition, and...
The fact that, in English, the words ‘negotiation’, ‘mediation’, and ‘collaboration’ mean something close to the same thing creates confusion for a lot of women who are new to the world of divorce and the terms that people familiar with it use to describe certain parts of the practice. On Wednesday, we discussed negotiation, which...
There’s a lot of confusion about divorce options, especially because the words we use – negotiation, collaboration, and mediation, especially – sound the same to most non-lawyers. I find that people tend to have a lot of difficulty in using the words correctly, and in understanding the legal processes at work behind the scenes of...