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  • Could an Unconventional Lifestyle Save Your Marriage?

      He’s a neatnik, but she’s a slob. Or she’s a lover of Victorian antiquities, and he’s obsessed with mid-century modern. Or perhaps she’s a night owl and a light sleeper, while he’s an early riser who can’t keep the volume down. For many people, divorce becomes the only option when they discover that they…

  • How to Survive Your First Christmas After a Divorce (Pt 2)

    Welcome back and thanks for joining us. As we get closer to the holidays, we get more and more calls from parents considering divorce, who aren’t sure how the holidays will be impacted by the breakup of their families. We also talk with many clients who are in the midst of divorces and concerned about…

  • Is There a Financial Upside To Getting Divorced?

      Pick ten articles on the financial ramifications of divorce, and 9 of them will probably predict a future of money troubles, penny pinching and budget cutbacks. Why?   Because divorce is financially hard on many people. You go from two incomes to one. You suddenly have less earning power, and twice as many things…

  • What Do You Do With Wedding Gifts When You Get Divorced?

      The issue of wedding gifts can be a bit tricky when you’re getting divorced. Who they came from, whom they’re sentimental to, and even how long you’ve been married all play a role in how they should be dealt with. Why? Because dividing up your assets is really hard, but can be even trickier…

  • A Movie List For The Recently Divorced

      Nothing is worse than watching a tear-jerker romance movie shortly after your divorce. As if you need that noise! Divorce is hard. Having other people’s fictional love stories crammed down your throat while you’re in recovery is even harder. But TV is loaded with romance stories. Every channel is a minefield. You can hardly…

  • How To Prepare For Your Divorce in Michigan

      Making the decision to end your marriage, whether you and your spouse came to this conclusion together or you decided alone, is a very emotional choice. However, now that you’ve made the choice, you have a lot of work to do. But what work? What comes next? How do you get prepared for a…

  • Does Getting a Divorce Mean You Have To Lose Your Home? Pt. 2

    Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. In our previous post we talked about the difficulty of assigning a value to your home, and who to talk to in order to have your home evaluated. But now that you’ve had it done, you’ve got a number and you know the value of your house,…

  • Does Getting a Divorce Mean You Have To Lose Your Home? Pt. 1

      For a great many Michiganians, getting married, buying a home, and having kids is a major part of the American dream. But what do you do when it all falls apart on you? When that dream becomes a nightmare? Should you lose everything because one thing doesn’t survive the test of time? Or is…

  • Narcissism Part Four: Co-parenting With a Narcissist

      Welcome back to the final wrap-up of our four-part series on narcissism and divorce. Having talked about what divorcing a narcissist is like, we’d like to finish this with a few pointers about co-parenting with a narcissist. Which means we’ve left the hardest part for last. Why? Because if you thought divorcing a narcissist…

  • Narcissism Part Three: Divorcing a Narcissist (continued…)

      Thanks for joining us once again. We’ve been discussing narcissism and how it can affect divorce. In the previous post we looked at a few facts about narcissists that you would need to be aware of, going into a divorce. Moving on we’re going to be sharing some advice with you from someone who…