Once you and your spouse decide to end your marriage, you must decide HOW to do so. Even if the break up of your marriage has been acrimonious, even if you and your spouse seem to view life from polar opposites, even if you no longer share the same goals or values, you might both [...]
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You may not have hordes of paparazzi camped outside your door trying to capture your every move and utterance, ready to broadcast it to the world, but you might as well when you get a divorce. In most states, anyone can sit in the courtroom and watch and listen to your divorce hearings and trial. [...]
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Collaborative divorce is a positive step toward a new beginning. Collaborative divorce discards the old adversarial precepts of divorce for a cooperative, problem-solving emphasis that provides you and your spouse with the skills and resources to make a healthy transition from being married to being single. Collaborative divorce does not focus on “winning,” “getting mine,” “hurting [...]
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Divorce is tough on kids, but it is the parents’ approach to divorce that determines how tough. “It is not divorce, per se, that emotionally scars children,” says Rosalind Sedacca, a well-known proponent of child-centered divorce, in a recent email. “It is the parents’ approach to divorce that determines the positive or negative impact on [...]
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Child custody battles leave only casualties, no winners. Britney Spears’ problems last weekend are only the most recent example (see our January 7 post). Children need the love, support and involvement of both parents while they’re growing up. Sure, there are cases when one parent may not be capable of effective parenting or when a [...]
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