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…

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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…

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Staying Mindful in Your Divorce

Woman sitting cross legged in yoga pose.

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…

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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 teetering…

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Divorce and Tele-Mediation

In order to continue to provide mediation services through the pandemic, I have taken to using video conferencing on a regular basis.  I find empathy and connection to be such an important part of the mediation process that I was concerned about using the computer as a communication medium.  My concern was misplaced.  I have…

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