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Divorce and Your Finances
This article outlines some wise steps for moving forward after divorce. While many fear the unknown financially and otherwise, it is also an opportunity to take control and be the CEO of your own independent financial household.
How Does Divorce Affect Your Retirement
Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are equitable distribution states. As such, retirement assets earned during the marriage are marital property subject to equitable distribution. Likewise, retirement assets earned prior to or after the marriage are excluded. It is very important, as this article outlines, that your retirement assets are transferred correctly so that you are […]
Co-Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Disagreement regarding parenting time and pandemic guidelines is rising to the surface as a significant point of disagreement during this unprecedented time. I think the primary focus as divorced parents seek common ground is RESPECT. While it is important to respect each other through the co-parenting partnership, the COVID pandemic stresses these agreements because your […]
How to Manage Your Emotions When Co-Parenting
This article lays out some great tips for taking the reactive emotion out of co-parenting. The tips, however, are universal and particularly helpful when transitioning into your independent life. As a mediator, I see broken down and/or reactive communication daily. As an example, this article addresses everyone wanting to be right. My belief is that […]
Boosting Your Self Esteem After Divorce
While divorce often feels like a loss as you are going through it, you may also work on rediscovering who you were before things went off track, who you have become, or who you want to be on the other side of the divorce process. There are several very specific steps outlined in this article […]
Co-Parenting and Your Children’s Feelings
This article provides wise guidance addressing how you interact with your children on the topic of your ex during and after your divorce. The starting point is to never speak ill of the child’s other parent (your ex), but that’s just the starting point. This article provides a great check on whether you are interacting […]
Online Mediation Spikes for Divorce in COVID-19
I had always thought that it was necessary to meet people in person in order to mediate. While I do love meeting with people and mediating that way, I have found that video conferencing is much more personal and connected than I would have thought. Necessity is, of course, the mother of invention. I had […]
Staying Mindful in Your Divorce
While it is important to focus on the divorce process as you are going though it, there is a line in this article that isn’t often discussed which captures the positivity of the process as you begin living your separate, independent life. “[G]etting back to who you were is a reminder of who you are […]
Will Divorce Soar At The End of the Quarantine?
I have been wondering about this since the pandemic began…will divorces skyrocket when the crisis and/or quarantine is behind us? This article suggests what I have been thinking all along, “Either (the crisis) brings them together or it makes them realize they need to get out because life is too short.” If your marriage was […]
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