Why a Divorce Lawyer Should Write Your Prenup
Signing off on a prenup without a lawyer is a mistake for a host of reasons. A few months ago, a friend, law school classmate and former roommate (i.e. someone who knows me and what I do really well), texted me looking for a referral for someone who knew how to write...
Does Mediation Work for Everyone? Only If You’re Both Ready And Able!
Mediation is an option that puts the control of decision-making in the hands of the participants, which is fabulous. It allows you to create a perfectly tailored agreement with a third party neutral mediator but for some it mediation may not work. Mediation can be...
How to Build Your Credit Score While Getting Divorced
Build Your Credit Score Money makes the world go round, but when it comes to relationships, it can cause a slew of issues, to the point that it can ruin a marriage altogether. Couples argue over how to spend money, what the other chooses to buy, and how to invest...
Mediation: Your Key to Finding Justice in Divorce
Is There Justice In Divorce? A judge once said to me, “One of the challenges for anyone in the court system to appreciate is that there is a difference between what might seem like justice in the broadest sense and the narrow set of issues that a court gets to decide...
Three Ways to Work with a Professional Organizer During Divorce
Transform Your Outer Chaos to Calm and Watch Your Inner Peace Emerge The road that brings us to divorce looks different for everyone. None of us instinctually knows how to plan for a divorce. Perhaps you’ve been thinking about leaving for a while but the whole ordeal...
Divorced, two kids, no career, and no back-up plan. Bitter and slightly jaded.
Divorced, two kids, no career, and no back-up plan. Bitter and slightly jaded That would have been the perfect headline depicting my life in December 2011. Two days shy of my fortieth birthday, I found myself signing divorce papers. Life had not turned out as I...
Starting over after Divorce in Five Simple Steps
Divorce is not easy, nor is it something any of us anticipate as we gaze into each other’s eyes at the alter vowing to love, honor and cherish the other. Part of the devastation of divorce is the annihilation of those vows. I pride myself on my trustworthiness,...
Why A Family Lawyer May Be The Best Option For Divorce Mediation
How to Select a Divorce Mediator If you've been following me, you already know that I am a huge proponent of divorce mediation. A divorce mediator works as a neutral and impartial third party. Although many divorce lawyers in Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan and...
Let’s Talk About Kids and Divorce
Are you unhappy in your marriage? Has your relationship become toxic? Have you done the work to try to save your marriage but it has not gotten any better or has even gotten worse? Are you staying together just for the kids? If this is you, you are probably feeling...
Revolutionizing the conversation around Divorce, one internal narrative at a time.
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