Everyone takes selfies these days. As camera phones have improved and social networks are quickly and easily connected to our mobile devices, it has become easier and easier to post and share and like pictures that we share, or that are shared by our friends, almost in real time. Almost as far back as I can remember (okay, well, as far back as college, anyway), I’ve had access to social media. It’s pretty deeply ingrained, at this point at least, into our social consciousness. Still, every so … [Read more...]
The Disadvantages of Mediation
Many women, when faced with the possibility of a divorce, try to think of alternatives to the traditional divorce. Most people are wary of hiring an attorney at all, whatever the reason. Lawyers, after all, don’t have the best reputation. They’re expensive, for one thing, and they’re difficult to deal with. Everyone has probably heard a divorce horror story or two, too. So it’s only natural that, when confronted with a divorce, lots of people try to do whatever they can to think outside the … [Read more...]
Virginia Collaborative Divorce
You have a lot of different options available to you when it comes to divorce. You have so many options, in fact, that many of the women that I see in my consultations or at my Second Saturday divorce seminars are convinced that there are many different “kinds” of divorce from which to choose. To hear most lawyers talk, it sounds like it’s true—we do tend to talk about divorces as different “types”. In reality, though, there aren’t that many truly different types of divorce at all. How are … [Read more...]
