Blog Posts in November, 2018

The Key to Leaving a Bad Marriage: Finding Your A-ha Moment

I was recently talking to a close friend about her divorce experience to try to gain a better perspective for the benefit of my coaching clients. I often have coaching calls with prospective coaching clients that just don’t seem ready to move forward with a divorce. I find this the most perplexing when they are so certain about the misery of their marriage yet won’t do anything to remove ...

Alice in Divorce Land: Learning Your Lawyer’s Language

As a divorce lawyer, I am very accustomed to the role on the attorney’s side of the table. However, I recently sat on the other side of the table on a number of business matters that required me to consult with an attorney. The view sure is different! I realized that even as an intelligent, professional woman, understanding a new legal process was not just “common sense.” My lawyer had her own ...

What You Should Do While You’re “Thinking” About Getting A Divorce

We often encounter people who come to us for a consultation who are “thinking” about getting a divorce. They typically have been unhappy in their marriages for some time and want information about what a divorce might look like, how they would get started, and how they would come out of it financially. The hardest part though is really making that decision to move forward. It’s kind of like ...

How Can I Afford a New Jersey Divorce?

There are a million questions and concerns that swirl through your brain when you start thinking about divorce. Where will I live? Do we have to live together during the divorce? How are the kids going to handle this? Sometimes the one you need to answer first is: Can I afford a divorce? And how will I pay for it? It is not unusual to think you simply cannot afford it. That’s where the saying, ...

Step-Parent Adoption in New Jersey

Most people would agree that every child should have two parents. There are times when one legal parent disappears on a child, or dies, and the other parent must raise the child alone. When the single parent enters into a new relationship with someone who acts as a parent to the child, often there is a desire to formalize the relationship with a step-parent adoption. This is the legal procedure ...