Married couples share their resources during retirement. You can combine your retirement savings and pensions while also sharing expenses like your monthly mortgage and utility expenses. When you file for divorce, you may quickly realize that your retirement savings...
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How Can I Prepare Financially Before I Ask For A Divorce
People often worry about the financial ramifications of getting a divorce. They would like to know how they can plan in advance to make things go as smoothly as possible and to protect their financial future. Fortunately, your financial situation should never keep you...
Tips for maintaining a positive parenting relationship
If you get divorced, it's important to try to maintain a positive co-parenting relationship for the sake of your children. Both you and your ex are still going to have to work together to raise the kids, and you are likely sharing custody through a court order....
Can A Pet Help A Child Through A Divorce?
Dogs, cats and other pets are considered by most pet owners to be part of the family. In the event of a divorce, these family members can prove therapeutic for children (and adults too). Studies have shown that a pet can help people going through a difficult time....
Should I Try Counseling Before I Ask For A Divorce?
When you get married, you commit to spending the rest of your life with your spouse, for better or worse and in sickness or health. However, it is easy to say those things when you are deeply infatuated with a romantic partner. It is harder to abide by such a promise...
When is the best time of day to ask for a divorce?
Over the years, there have been many different months that legal analysts have coined as "divorce month." One of the latest theories is that January is when the most divorces occur. Why? Most analysts argue it has to do with couples realizing that they're no longer...
Want to start a business after divorce? It’s possible!
For most women, divorce often comes with concerns about managing their expenses and their kids independently. If this is your case, you may consider starting your own business, as many other women have done. According to the latest data from the United States Census...
Routes to a healthy divorce without litigation
A divorce does not have to be acrimonious, unpleasant, nasty and bitter leading to months of disputes with only inch-by-inch progress toward resolution. Litigation usually pits spouse against spouse with accusations flung back and forth, while a judge untangles...
The Future May Be Brighter For Divorced Women
As the divorce rates for younger people have decreased in recent years, the incidence of later life divorced (or 'gray' divorces) has been rising. This rate of gray divorces has increased to such an extent that the Pew Research Center showed that divorce rates for...
How social media can negatively impact your divorce
Going through a divorce is an emotionally difficult time. You more than likely will need time to process the end of your marriage in a healthy way. In the meantime, you might feel angry one day and sad the next. You may want to vent about your ex on Facebook or...