How to Deescalate Conflict in a Divorce

It is often said that a divorce is 95% emotional and only 5% legal.  A divorce is a life crisis, with intense emotional reactions, such as anger, fear, guilt, and despair. In the midst of this emotional soup, you must make huge decisions regarding your finances and...

How Divorce Affects Social Security Benefits

Federal Social Security benefits are very important to individuals and to those who have paid into the Social Security system, and by extension to their family members.  When spouses divorce it is critical to understand the underlying rules and assumptions for the...

How to Increase the Cost of Your Divorce

Many people recognize that if they “lawyer up” by hiring the most litigious attorneys that they are asking to have a very expensive adversarial divorce.  Saving money is one of the reasons (but hopefully not the only reason) people often choose to do a collaborative...

5 Common Experiences of Coping with the Aftermath of Divorce

Well. It’s done. The Collaborative paperwork is signed; the dissolution is complete. You can now safely say the words, “I’m divorced.” My guess is, this outcome is not exactly what you had in mind when you married your spouse all those years ago. The clinking of the...