Divorce

Layoffs, shutdowns, reduced work hours and childcare challenges have affected nearly everyone’s lives over the past year due to the pandemic. For couples already experiencing marital difficulties when the stay-at-home orders began, life became even more complicated....

When people talk about the effects of divorce on children, the focus is almost always on the negative. Children might lash out, develop anxiety, become alienated from their parents or start struggling at school. However, those short-term hiccups in happiness and...

Divorce can best be seen as an opportunity for growth. Learning from your mistakes can be a way to turn a divorce from something that could feel like the loss of a dream and a failure into a springboard to a happier future.  That only works, however, if you avoid some...

A divorce is one of the most stressful situations a person can go through. Did you know that even the human body has a negative response to divorce? Studies have shown that the stress of a divorce can compromise the immune system, which leaves people at a greater risk...

An online survey conducted by Worthy in 2018 captured how 46% of divorcing women noted that the end of their marriage brought with it some unexpected financial consequences. At least 22% of the 1,785 women polled by researchers were 55 or over. What factors tended to...

As you get older, your life changes. You may start to think about what you want to do in retirement or about starting a new career. If you and your spouse aren’t on the same page, then part of moving forward may be letting go of your relationship. If you have decided...

One concern that people often have when facing divorce is the prospect of having a high-conflict case. They do not want to go through that, they don’t want to put their children through it, and they really hope they can keep conflict to a minimum while focusing on...

When getting divorced, some parents decide to keep as much information as they can away from the children, believing that they are protecting them from a stressful adult situation. Others decide to tell the children all of the details, believing that full honesty is...

People talk about marriage often in glowing terms, focusing only on what happens between the two people in more of an emotional sense. They talk about dedication or how it is a commitment to one another. They talk about getting married because they fell in love and...

There are very few cases in which a divorce happens without there being any signs that it’s coming. For many people, there is at least a hint that something is amiss, but some individuals might look over those with the hope that things will suddenly improve. There are...