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How to Plan for Children When You Don’t Plan to Stay Together You never thought this day would come. After building a life with your spouse or partner and having one or more children, you’ve decided the relationship can no longer work. Yet you both want what is best for your offspring, and that means…
The Single Parent’s Guide to an Effective Parenting Planning Raising a child alone is never easy. Whether you’re divorced, widowed, or never married, having the weight of a child’s life, health, and future happiness on your shoulders is enough to stress anyone. However, with an effective parenting plan you can relieve a great deal of…
Coparenting Without Conflict for Unmarried Parents You’ve heard the term “broken home” – a home where divorce has created constant conflict and strife, resulting in an unhealthy environment for your children. You can avoid this to create a seamless, conflict-free parenting and child raising environment through careful Coparenting that begins with open communication and succeeds…
How Divorce Mediation Will Benefit Your Children Virtually any divorce can benefit from the use of mediation. The most amicable and most contentious divorces alike can find advantages in mediation because it provides a neutral person to listen to and help find mutually agreeable solutions to any issues. Not only are their emotional advantages to…
How to Reduce Expenses and Save Time When Modifying Child Support Establishing and modifying a child support agreement can be a frustrating and costly process. In traditional divorces, a child support agreement would be argued in a court of law with lawyers and a judge. Thus, each individual has to hire an attorney, go through…
5 Tips for Talking to Your Children About Divorce or Legal Separation Anytime a couple decides to divorce it is difficult but when children are involved it becomes even more complicated and difficult. Whether you are engaging in a contentious or amicable divorce it is important to consider your words carefully when explaining things to…
5 Ways Having a Coparenting Agreement Benefits Children In an ideal world all marriages would succeed, parents would stay together forever, and raise their children together. But, as we all know, that is often not the case. Parents separate and divorce and parenting through divorce is not only challenging for the parents but difficult for…
Be In a Safe and Supportive Space with Divorce Mediation Divorce may be relatively common but it is never a decision that is arrived at lightly and is rarely what someone describe as an “easy” experience. Emotions run high, there are many things to figure out, and circumstances can be very contentious. But, divorce does…
Make Informed, Smarter Decisions When Legally Separating with Mediation When you legally separate or divorce there are a lot of decisions to be made about assets, finances, living arrangements, custody if children are involved, and more. The problem is, couples that are divorcing are not always on the best terms and with such heightened emotions,…
Divorce mediation has become a popular alternative method of divorce in recent years. When divorcing couples engage in mediation, they hire a mediator instead of each hiring a personal attorney. The mediator acts as a neutral party who does not take sides. Instead, he or she is an experienced professional who provides whatever legal, parenting,…
If you and your spouse want to get a divorce as quickly and cost effectively as possible, there is a way you can do so. Though you may have heard horror stories about friends and friends of friends spending years and thousands of dollars on divorce litigation, you can walk away from your marriage is…
No matter how far into your marriage you may be, you may find yourself considering the benefits of a postnuptial agreement. These contracts are legal documents that serve to define the assets, debts and financial obligations each partner owns or is responsible for. While these contracts may be used by some to safeguard their finances…
