Posts belonging to Category Mediation

Transforming Your Anger

A Chinese proverb said “If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.” You are not your anger – but you may feel angry in divorce. Instead of escalating conflict during a divorce, first it is important to recognize the validity of your emotions. Anger is a [...]

Choosing a Peaceful Divorce

Eleanor Roosevelt said “It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” When a divorce occurs, one of the last adjectives people would use to describe the divorce process would be peaceful. The key to a peaceful divorce is [...]

Maintaining Confidentiality and Privacy

The question, how can you maintain confidentiality and financial privacy in your divorce may come to mind when you hear of high profile divorce cases where sensitive information was leaked to the public. Recently the Los Angeles Dodgers owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt have had their divorce widely publicized and it has become a national baseball [...]

EMOTIONAL CLEAN BREAK IN A DIVORCE – POSSIBLE OR NOT?

Lets face it, divorce sucks!  However, it does not need to define the rest of your life, unless you let it.  We all know that playing the victim is not the best way to move through divorce, yet over and over again that is exactly what happens. Perhaps it is a bit subtler, maybe you [...]

Parenting Plans – A Must for Every Parent, Even if you get Along!

When we are faced with a divorce we think about two primary issues, money and kids.  While there is lots of advice about both, our children and parenting seem to be the area that causes the most pain and yet is often left with much less concrete plans. While ending a marriage is hard enough, [...]

7 Fundamental Divorce Lessons we can learn from the BP Oil Spill

When going through a divorce, there are some valuable lessons we can learn from the way corporations and the government behave. What can they teach us and how can we maintain integrity and honor while going through our own personal crisis – Divorce.

Collaborative Divorce : Revolutionizing the Way Divorces Are Handled

A new paradigm is needed for the way family law is practiced in Michigan, and a new method called Collaborative Divorce is leading the way. Divorce is a life-changing event. A select group of attorneys can now offer a better way to end a marriage through specialized advanced training in Collaborative Divorce. This groundbreaking method [...]

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