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How to Break The News to Your Kids About The Divorce (Pt 2)
Hey there. Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We’ve been talking about how to break the news to your kids once you’ve decided to get divorced, and how challenging this conversation can be for parents. If your children are extremely young it’s unlikely they’ll remember life before the transition, and if they’re already…
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How to Break The News to Your Kids About The Divorce (Pt 1)
There is nothing about getting divorced that’s easy, or simple. Dividing up your stuff and arguing over who gets to keep what is hard. Fighting over custody of your kids is very difficult. Coming up with the money to pay for the whole thing is a challenge. And having to create a whole new life…
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Do Chronic and Terminal Illnesses Increase Your Chances of Getting Divorced? (Pt 2)
Hi there and welcome back. If you recall from the previous article on this rather touchy subject, we dived into the issues that come up when one spouse gets sick, and the other spouse is forced to carry a double load. As we mentioned before, in the case of chronic illnesses, we’re not talking about…
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Do Chronic and Terminal Illnesses Increase Your Chances of Getting Divorced? (Pt 1)
It sounds like a brutal subject. Because it is. People don’t like to talk about the fact that “in sickness and in health” usually means “in health, but once you get really sick I may not stick it out.” Why? Because it sounds awful, and there’s a lot of guilt attached to marriages that fail…
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What Actually Happens to Your Debt After You Get Divorced! (Pt 2)
Hi there. Welcome back to this look at what happens to your debt after you get divorced. As we mentioned in the previous article, there is no cut-and-dried explanation for how debt gets divided when a couple gets divorced. A lot has to do with who earned the money that was spent, how it was…
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What Actually Happens to Your Debt After You Get Divorced! (Pt 1)
For most people, when they think about what they need to address during a divorce, they tend to think about dividing up their stuff. Who gets the car? Who keeps the house? Who inherits the camper? But it’s amazing how few people think about their debts, and how a divorce means dividing those as well.…
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8 Tips For Parents Preparing For a Custody Battle (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been talking about the issue of custody, and how parents who are preparing to go to war over the issue of who gets the kids, should have a handbook full of pointers and tips to help them make good choices. But since there isn’t a how-to-survive-your-custody-battle handbook,…
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8 Tips For Parents Preparing For a Custody Battle (Pt 1)
Getting divorced is hard. Very hard! But when you have kids, and you and your spouse can’t agree on who they should live with and for how long, things can get very, very complicated. Custody is always a touchy issue for divorcing parents, and having to duke it out with your least favorite person in…
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Does The Current Child Support System Needs Some Serious Overhauling? (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us for the wrap up on this chat about the current child support system. As we mentioned in the previous article, a few years ago there was an article published in the Boston Globe where correspondent Ruth Graham investigated the child support system as it exists today, and revealed…
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Does The Current Child Support System Needs Some Serious Overhauling? (Pt 1)
A lot of time and energy gets spent exposing the flaws in the child welfare system (as it should!) because, let’s face it – there’s enough wrong with that entire system to keep a thousand analysts working ’round the clock for years. But a similarly broken system that hardly gets a mention is the child…
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