Let’s get one thing straight right off the top… If one of you wants a divorce, you are both getting a divorce. You don’t need your husband or wife to give you permission to divorce them. But how you proceed and how difficult you make it on yourself and your children is up to both…
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Starting New Holiday Traditions After a Divorce
Holidays can be especially tricky to navigate as a newly divorced couple. It takes time to settle into the new normal — for you, your ex, and your children — and the holidays can be a great time for each of you to set new traditions that work for the shift in your family situation.…
Divorce and Taxes Can Be Complicated
Going through a divorce can be a dramatic and trying time. Issues such as division of property, custody of children and family support are huge. And the decisions made to resolve these issues have a tax impact. It is important to know how you will be affected and take steps to minimize your tax liability.…
Divorce Confidential: Crafting a Creative Pet Parenting Plan
Couples face many heated battles during the divorce process. One such battle may revolve around the division of the family pet. As I explained in my last post discussing pet custody, pets are not treated the same under the law, as a child. Due to this legal restriction, many pet parents are becoming a lot…
I Turned Down Alimony – 3 Women’s Stories
In reporting this story I came across a number of people who chose not to take spousal they were entitled to. Here are their stories: “Asking for alimony would be like asking for a pension for a job I no longer did. It just didn’t seem fair.” Suzan French married at 18, soon after had…
Protect finances in later-in-life divorce
When you’re over 50 and facing divorce from a long-term marriage, coming to a settlement agreement that will safeguard a comfortable financial future is complicated. “Till death do us part” isn’t the case for many Baby Boomers today. “Gray divorces” are occurring more than ever before – the rate for adults ages 50 and older…
Why Do So Few Men Get Alimony?
Of the 400,000 people in the United States receiving post-divorce spousal maintenance, just 3 percent were men, according to Census figures. Yet 40 percent of households are headed by female breadwinners — suggesting that hundreds of thousands of men are eligible for alimony, yet don’t receive it. The reason? Die-hard gender roles, a bitter fight…
5 ways to keep a divorce from being needlessly expensive
When Joanna Wilbur got divorced five years ago, she was able to keep her two story, four bedroom home with a wraparound porch in Fairfax County, Va. They had only purchased the home two years before deciding to go their separate ways, and Wilbur says she wasn’t yet ready to let it go. But in…
How to Get a Mortgage After a Divorce
Divorcing spouses face unique obstacles when they try to buy a new home. Even if you can afford it, trying to buy a new home before a divorce is finalized can mean a red flag for lenders. In a divorce, it’s bad enough that you’re losing someone you once loved or may still love. It’s…
What Do Marathons and Divorce Have in Common?
What do marathons and divorce have in common? They both go for miles and miles, and have have a long road to the finish line. Most who have been through a divorce will tell you that it is a marathon, not a sprint. In order to get to the finish line without collapsing, it is…
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