If you're looking to improve, New Year's Day provides a great opportunity. The psychological boost that the new year brings with it can motivate people to start doing the things they know they should, and to stop doing the things they know they shouldn't keep doing....
Emotional Support And Divorce
Practice the art of giving in your divorce
It's better to give than to receive. We say it a lot around the holiday season, and while some people might think it's corny or cliché, there's definitely truth to it. Seeing the face of a child light up, when he or she is opening a present you've selected, is...
Take a break from your divorce this holiday season
While a number of couples try to "get through the holidays" before getting started with a divorce, some couples find themselves in the midst of divorce proceedings in the midst of the holiday season. And that's tough for a few reasons. For divorcing couples with...
Your Collaborative Divorce Team: The Mental Health Professional
Many people who are thinking about collaborative divorce wonder how the process works. "If a lawyer isn't going to fight in court for me," some might even think, "will that lawyer really be able to stick up for me?" You can rest assured that even though the...
What if I’m ready for a divorce and my spouse isn’t?
In a prior blog article, we discussed a couple of the issues that can prolong a divorce case beyond the state's minimum 60-day window. We touched on the conflicts that can delay a divorce, which typically happen when both parties are fully engaged in either trying to...
Is anger the driving force in your divorce?
Emotion plays a huge role in divorce. You don't need me to tell you that. But as a family lawyer who helps people through divorces every day, it can help to hear from me how it can negatively impact a divorce, and why it's so important to me that people try to keep...
Your Lawyer is Not Your Counselor
In a previous article, we discussed some strategies for potentially keeping the cost down in a divorce, and one of the key ways to do that was to make sure you try to keep discussions with your lawyers to legal matters. That's not to say that emotions won't sometimes...