Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
Here you are, having a long drawn-out and bitter divorce case. It’s stressful and getting expensive and taking much longer than you thought it would. Judges, opposing lawyers, strangers are probing into intimate parts of your personal and financial life without regard to your feelings, your dignity, or your childrens’ needs. The attorney’s bills are
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
The average divorce costs over $10,000 and can run up to $20,000 and more, even for persons of middle class means. In addition, after months and possibly years of expense and stress, the parties often end up facing a future neither planned, including hostile personal relations that interfere with parenting rights and has them continually
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
A broken marriage brings a sense of loss, anger, frustration, fear, and depression. Becoming involved in a bitterly contested divorce proceeding can destroy the future for you and your children. Once the process gets underway, positions regarding money and the children, become hardened and antagonistic, (frequently with the self interested help of the attorneys.) Months
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
When I put that title up,I was thinking of the usual questions, such as have you discussed the divorce with your spouse? Can you agree to keep the anger out of the process for the kids sake? But then I thought about what I have been watching on the CBS Morning program for the past
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
Here we go again… Back in January 2011, I wrote a blog entitled Pointing Fingers in which I praised President Obama for a speech in Tuscany that tried to reduce the feverish condemnation of the right wing for essentially causing the murder of 6 people and the wounding of 14 others. The screamers blamed Sarah
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
Couples who are looking to mediate their divorce are often confused about whether they still have to go to court. The answer is YES and you still have to file the necessary court documents. “Which documents?” “Where do I get them?” “Do I need separate ones for the kids?” “I’m not sure I can fill
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
OK. You’ve made the decision to get a divorce. You look on line for a mediator. You’ll find a longer list nowadays than you would have a few years ago because now “every divorce lawyer is a mediator”. But be careful! Every divorce lawyer is not a good mediator. Most lawyers have been too long
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
I know this is probably a very difficult time for you. Making the decision to end a marriage can be gut-wrenching. You ask yourself: Should I do this? Should I hire a lawyer? What’s going to happen to the kids? What’ the divorce going to cost? How am I going to live? And a hundred
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
This is a follow up to my last blog where I suggested that you and your soon-to-be-ex, write a letter to your children about a parenting schedule that puts their interests before your own. Well, this is a follow-up to that letter. Here we assume you have a parenting plan in place. The question is,
Posted on by Jeff Murphy | No Comments
Are you and your spouse planning to divorce? Do you have young children who could be devastated by this? How are you going to establish a parenting plan that will put their interests before your own? (If you don’t, the Court will.) To help insure that you and your soon-to-be-ex do have your kids best