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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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…

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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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Online Mediation Spikes for Divorce in COVID-19

Woman sitting at table looking at laptop computer.

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…

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Staying Mindful in Your Divorce

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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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