Create A System To Keep Files In Order For Divorce

Question: During our 21 years of marriage, I took care of our three children while my husband took care of the finances. When he left me this year, I had trouble organizing my records for my divorce case. Is there a secret to this?
Answer: Successful results in matrimonial cases are directly related to gathering and properly organizing information and records. I suggest that your first order of business should be to establish a system that makes sense to you. Once created, your system can be modified as your needs change. Keep all records and files in one central location so that if you must find something, you'll know where to look...

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Financial Survival for Divorced Women

Keep divorce from crushing your standard of living
According to recent statistics, divorce rates in the United States have dipped in recent years after peaking in the 1970s, but the rates of failed marriages still remain fairly high. Divorce isn’t just an emotional breakup; it involves serious financial issues that can have long-term consequences on a woman’s economic stability.
A woman’s standard of living plunges by at least 30% after a divorce, according to recent studies, so it’s important for divorcées to get a grip on their finances both during and after a divorce if she wants to survive the process intact...

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Who Gets Custody of the Dog Is Complicated, "hotly contested"

When couples split up these days, a matter every bit as intense as who keeps the house or plasma TV is increasingly being slammed onto the table for discussion: Who gets the pets?

Joint custody, sole custody with visitation, no ongoing relationship at all or splitting the pets between partners are all up for consideration, as are who pays expenses for the animal (no matter who has custody) and what happens if the custodial caregiver becomes incapacitated or links up with someone who hates dogs...

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Dealing With Divorce in the New Millennium

By the time you get to a certain point in your life, you’ll have to endure loss. It might be losing a parent, a job or your hair. Sometimes it’s the loss of a spouse. In any of these cases, knowing you’re not alone can help to ease the pain.
Seattle writer Theo Pauline Nestor writes about the ups and downs of modern-day divorce in her new memoir, "How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed."
The title encapsulates what a friend of mine is going through now, so I read Nestor’s book with a mix of emotions. I was eager for insights that could help me help my friend, but I didn’t want to be a voyeur.
I needn’t have. Nestor is candid, but tender, too. In telling her side of the story, she respects that there are other perspectives. She keeps whining to a minimum, and her well-honed sense of the absurd helps to leaven the tale...

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Honey, I Want A Divorce! How To Have The Talk

There are some conversations that are hard by their very nature. Telling your spouse you want a divorce is certainly at the top of the list.
Since marriage is one of life's central relationships, seeking a divorce feels like a tremendous failure. And it is tough to initiate something you know will have great emotional, practical and financial fallout for yourself (and your children, if you have them)...

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Child's Divorce Also Hard On Parents; Here Are Some Tips

Question: I'm devastated over the divorce of an adult son. Am I wrong to be so torn apart? After all, I'm 77 years old.

Answer: By no means are you "wrong" to be anguished. Instead, you are one more sideline sufferer, the newest member of a growing legion because roughly half of all American marriages end in failure. According to census figures, about 1 million couples call it quits every year. When they do, that means 4 million parents find tranquil lives thrown into turmoil

And, pardon the clich?, "But once a parent, always a parent." Or, better still: "Little kids, little problems. Big kids, BIG problems...

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Divorce Rates Dropping With Real Estate

During the Great Depression, the divorce rate dropped sharply. Couples couldn't afford to pay the legal fees to split up. These days, the real estate market could be keeping couples together.
For most people, a house is the most valuable asset they own. Today, some divorce lawyers and therapists say trying to sell a house is starting to make things even more complicated than they already are.
For many homeowners, a sluggish real estate market just means a delay in making a move. But for a married couple no longer getting along, it is much more than an inconvenience.
Divorce lawyers and therapists report that the shift in real estate is making breaking up harder to do...

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