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Suddenly Single? Five Questions to Ask About Long-term Care Without a Partner
It is unusual for divorce not to cause disruption to previous made financial plans for maintaining long term financial viability. But the loss of a partner due to divorce can be particularly disruptive to long term care plans for each other, regardless of how well...
Healthy Co-Parenting Through the Holidays
The holidays can feel overwhelming for anyone, but for people divorced, separating, or moving through a divorce process, the stress of the holidays can feel even more untenable. Frequent issues may arise including: How will the children respond when we are not...
Getting Unstuck from Your Mental Accounting
How you think about your money may be a function of your mental accounting. In negotiating about division of assets, sometimes parties get anchored on assets that may have a history of some kind with one party or the other. Mental accounting can attribute an asset to...
Keeping the House in Divorce
In Divorce, the house is a risky asset. When you purchased your house, by the time you got to the closing table, you had a large stack of documents and numerous consultations that informed you about what you were buying. If you had a good realtor, they were your first...
Is the Collaborative Divorce Process The Right Choice for You?
Your marriage is no longer working, and you want to move forward with your life. Recognizing that divorce is the next step, you and your spouse or partner want to avoid as much conflict and pain as possible and spare your children any fall out trauma. One option you...
Part II: How to Have a Difficult Talk
Introduction by Deborah Meyrowitz-Weiss, M.Ed., LMFT Deborah is member of the Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern PA, often provides mental health services, divorce coaching, and family counseling to our clients in Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware...
Part I: How to Have a Difficult Talk
Introduction by Deborah Meyrowitz-Weiss, M.Ed., LMFT Deborah is member of the Collaborative Law Professionals of Southeastern PA, often provides mental health services, divorce coaching, and family counseling to our clients in Bucks County, Montgomery County, Delaware...
Choose a Non-Litigation Process for Child Custody Parenting Plans
When parents separate, finding a way to share custody of the children can be a painful and emotionally challenging effort. Parents and children suffer with separation and struggle to find a path to restructure their family. If parents are not able to reach agreement...
Helping Your Child Through Your Divorce
Extensive research suggests that for children of divorce, what is most damaging is the experience of their parents fighting. How children adjust and fare after a divorce is closely linked to how their parents get along with each other. Those children whose parents are...
What Questions to Ask About 529 Plans and the New Tax Act When Preparing a Divorce Agreement
In cases involving children, it is commonplace for divorce agreements to include provisions governing the payment of college expenses. This may include terms governing any existing 529 college savings plans. The new tax act now considers qualified expenses under 529...