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This is a follow-up on last week’s blog about contacting your ex about exchanging the kids per your outstanding court ordered holiday schedule.On the one hand, there’s a court order; on the other hand there’s a real concern about possibly getting or spreading the Covid virus.Since I wrote that blog, there have been multiple emails
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Well, it looks like the “Holiday Season” is on us again. And I’m afraid it’s going to be very strained and confused like the rest of this year of the “Plague”.If you are divorced and have minor children, there’s probably a holiday schedule in place. These schedules usually call for alternating holiday time with the
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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 all the necessary court documents.But, don’t stress out.As your mediator, I’ll take care of all that for you.So don’t sweat it. We’ll get that stuff out
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This is DEFINATELY a very scary time, with the coronavirus starting a new even more vicious attack on us. How are couples whose marriages are already at a breaking point going to handle new enforced lockdowns? I’ve been mediating domestic relations issues for over 15 years and I guess I’ve seen it all. Call me
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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