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Smart Divorce Planning: Get Ready for a Better Divorce

The New Year is an ideal time to set new goals, initiate important change and commit to improving your life. If you are contemplating divorce or are already in the process this article provides you with important information to help you through this… Read More
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Five Tips for Turning Holiday “Hell” Into Holiday Healing Soon After Divorce

#1: Make sure you know the plan ahead of time…and build cushions into your plans. If you have children, this means insuring that you and your co-parent agree on the schedule. When will the kids be with you? When will they be with your Ex? If anyone… Read More
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Talking Turkey at the Collaborative Table - Facing Conflict and Working Through It

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict – Dorothy Thompson So you and your spouse have decided to engage in the collaborative process and you have both retained attorneys, along… Read More
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You're Getting Divorced. Do Your Children Need Therapy?

For many people, one of the most painful and anxiety-producing aspects of their decision to divorce is concern about the impact on their children. Will the children feel abandoned? Betrayed? Angry? Grief-stricken? Will they feel stigmatized in their… Read More
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When Divorce Is Collaborative Instead of Combative

As a longtime family law attorney and mediator in Washington, D.C., I recently met with a very unhappy couple who was looking for legal help to sort out their affairs as they struggled through the painful decision to separate and divorce. Speaking of… Read More
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