Thursday, August 28, 2008

What's A Divorce Got To Do With Your Mortgage Refinance?

When Love is Gone
When love leaves, the travails of married couples begin. Everything about their partner is gross, unappealing, and irritating. Life becomes a struggle to keep up with the pretense that things are okay. When you’re the aggrieved partner, you silently wish that things will suddenly take a better turn, especially with an unpaid mortgage.
Refinance plans have to take a backseat for a while, so, no go. Not all divorces end well, but for those who want more money from their house faster, they’ll settle fast and work around their mortgage. Refinance is usually another exit of a relationship and to get the spouse out of the house fast...

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The Divorce Generation: Finding Redemption

It is a common, oft-repeated statistic: One in two American marriages will end in divorce—even within the Church. It hangs over our nation like a dark cloud. But what is truly sobering is that an entire generation of Americans has grown up in a culture where statistically, divorce is every bit as normal as marriage itself.
Writing in a recent Newsweek article titled, "The Divorce Generation Grows Up," David Jefferson tells the stories of the Grant High School class of 1982. "In our parents’ generation, marriage was still the most powerful social force," he writes. "In ours, it was divorce. My 44-year-old classmates and I have watched divorce morph from something shocking, even shameful, into a routine fact of American life..."

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Women Not Alone After Divorce, Author Says

Friends can help the recovery, Lehr writes
In a country where weddings are a billion-dollar business but more than half of marriages fail, author Leslie Lehr said she believes that it's important to have hope and learn how to recover quickly when the dream of matrimony dies.
"One of the great fears of divorce is that you will be alone forever — and that's just not true," Lehr said. "I want people to know they are not alone."
Such is the message of her new book, "Wife Goes On," the story of four women in Los Angeles who have nothing in common but divorce and who find that it's more than enough for them to become friends — and help each other live happily ever after...

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Top 5 Reasons People Head For Divorce

Divorce is a devastating ordeal for most people. This is why people choose to do so:

1. Infidelity: It could be argued that infidelity within marriages is a reaction by a spouse to the real breakdown of the marriage, and is not itself the cause. Either way, it is cited as the cause of most divorces. Surveys have shown that adultery occurs in over half of failed marriages. Spouses may be unfaithful consistently during an affair, intermittently, or just once in a one night stand. Common explanations for unfaithfulness include resentment or anger (with the other spouse) and sexual boredom.

2. Communication breakdown: Commonly, couples become unable to communicate in a normal, meaningful fashion...

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Everything One Needs To Know About...Divorce

The Internet age — and working at a newspaper — enables literally thousands of pages of information to come across my desk and into my virtual inbox. For a reading junkie, it's heaven; for someone trying to decide what would work in a publication serving Chester County, it's a balancing act.
While a work spam filter apparently blocks much of the nonsense that still squeezes through to personal e-mail, there are nonetheless messages under the general heading of "press release" that pile up faster than you can imagine. You never know what will be waiting for you...

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Surviving Divorce

PRENUPTIAL agreements, how to make a separation legal, sorting finances, step-parents' rights and options for ex-pats are all issues discussed in a pocket book on surviving divorce.
The second edition of Surviving Family Conflict and Divorce has been launched with the help of local family law specialist Alison Hill.
Mrs Hill, who works for publisher Woolley & Co from her home in Redditch, said: "Divorce is never a pleasant experience and we have found that many couples considering separation are distressed further by simply not knowing what is involved. Picking out some of the main issues on separation and putting them in a discreet book that people can keep to hand is an idea that really seems to have taken off..."

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Parent To Parent: Divorce

Many say divorce affects children the most. 7's Matt Lorch looks at ways to help them through it in tonight's Parent to Parent.
David Polen was just three years old when his parents divorced.David Polen, 26 "I don't really have much memory of my parents being married or being together."
Each year, about a million children in this country will see their parents split. Divorce can be traumatic for children, but experts say what matters most is how the parents behave...

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Health Benefits Inspire Rush To Marry, or Divorce

LAKE CHARLES, La. — It was only last February that Brandy Brady met Ricky Huggins at a Mardi Gras ball here. By April, they had decided to marry.
Ms. Brady says she loves Mr. Huggins, but she worries they are moving too fast. She questions how well they really know each other, and wants to better understand his mood swings.
But Ms. Brady, 38, also finds much to admire in Mr. Huggins, who is three years older. He strikes her as trustworthy and caring. He has a stable job as a plumber and a two-bedroom house. And perhaps above all, said Ms. Brady, who received a kidney transplant last year, "He’s got great insurance."
More than romance, the couple readily acknowledge, it is Mr. Huggins’s Blue Cross/Blue Shield HMO policy that is driving their rush to the altar...

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

First Same-Sex Divorce In California

Just three days after Theresa Ramirez and Adelita Guajardo of Fresno County got hitched they were filing for divorce. California was the first state to fully recognise same sex marriages. This will also be the first same-sex divorce the state has deal with.
The couple got married on the 27th June 2008 and filed the divorce papers on June 30th 208, it’s not said why the sudden change of heart for the couple or what grounds they are divorcing, but the court told ABC news that they will treat the lesbian couple exactly the same as any other couple who comes before the court, even though this is the first same-sex divorce in Fresno County.
The couple will divorce like any other couple seeking the same under California law...

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