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Divorce Magazine Newsletters

We invite you to review this archive of recent Divorce Magazine newsletters. We hope you will find them informative. The articles do not take the place of a lawyer

April 2012 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on when to tell your children about a divorce; on how friends, family and community contribute to a healthy marriage; on making decisions about separation; on the merits of divorce mediation; and on tax traps to avoid during a divorce.

  • How and When to Tell Your Children about a Divorce: Dos and don’ts on talking to children about separation and divorce.
  • How Friends and Family Help Good Marriages: Good marriages enhance life, and good friends strengthen good marriages.
  • Separation as a Time for Making Decisions: People have certain goals and seek various opportunities in times of separation.
  • When Spouses Benefit by Mediating a Divorce: How couples use Alternative Dispute Resolution with a spirit of cooperation.
  • Tax Missteps During Divorce: Avoid retirement, attorney fee, alimony, credit, refund, and capital gain and loss miscalculations.

March 2012 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on deciding whether to divorce, on how divorce affects more than you and your children, on understanding your children’s preferences during a separation, on essentials to keep your marriage happy, and on avoiding negative emotions after a divorce.

  • Factors to Consider when Contemplating a Divorce: No one can decide for you if a divorce is the right option.
  • Trusting and Taking Sides after Divorce: Dealing with friends, family and your ex in the aftermath of a divorce.
  • Children’s Preferences and Their Best Interests: When children want shared parenting.
  • Key Factors to a Happy, Healthy Marriage: Fun, dates, time together and alone, and healthy living are habits to remember.
  • Converting Negative Energy to Positive Spirit: Recreating yourself after a divorce through humble, continuous  goals.

February 2012 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on how children of different ages deal with divorce, how divorcees recover psychologically, how to plan for a divorce settlement agreement, how to avoid parental alienation, and why sex with your ex should be avoided.

  • Supporting Children during Divorce Proceedings: How babies, toddlers, youth and teens deal differently with separation.
  • Recovering Psychologically from Marital Dissolution: Trusting attorneys, counselors and accountants with your well-being.
  • Fair and Equitable Divorce Settlements: The need to gather information and engage in financial planning before a divorce.
  • Parental Alienation Syndrome: Tools for handling parental alienation and anger in the courtroom.
  • Four Reasons to Avoid Sex with Your Ex: Why rekindling a sexual relationship with your ex isn’t such a good idea.

January 2012 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on child support options, knowing when a marriage operates on a win-win model, rebounding financially from a divorce, shared parenting, and the warning signs of abuse in a marriage.

  • How Child Support is Paid: Each method of paying child support has advantages and disadvantages.
  • Divorce versus the Unhappy Marriage: Is your marriage operating with a win-win or a win-lose model?
  • Financial Recovery after Divorce: Take care of your financial matters so you may rebound from your divorce.
  • Parenting after Separation: Shared parenting can produce happier children and more satisfied parents.
  • Signs of an Abusive Relationship: Look at your current relationship and see if these signs are present.

December 2011 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on preparing yourself for trial before entering the divorce courtroom, understanding the difference between sole custody and joint custody, managing fear and risk after a divorce, seeing how children cope with divorce, and considering the sometimes-possible option of a collaborative divorce.

  • Misconceptions about Divorce Court: Divorce proceedings require strength, so don’t let misconceptions sap your energy.
  • Sole Custody or Joint Custody: How a child custody finding affects visitation schedules and child support payments.
  • Learning to Embrace Change: Change after a divorce can cause fear and pain, but so can resisting change.
  • Children and Divorce: Letters from children to judges reveal how they really feel about divorce.
  • When Collaborative Divorce Is an Option: Sometimes parties can agree to avoid litigation and negotiate a divorce.

November 2011 Newsletter

This month’s e-newsletter focuses on trends such as the Internet that affect divorces, the role of separation in a divorce or reconciliation, stories shared by divorced women and men, and the psychological dangers of a victim mentality after a divorce.

  • The Internet and Divorce: A Canadian judge explains how computers and the Internet are affecting marriage and divorce.
  • Three Reasons for Separation: Enhancing marriage, gaining perspective, and preparing for divorce.
  • Stories Shared by Divorced Women and Men: Finding peace of mind for yourself and your children.
  • The Problem with Seeing Yourself as a Victim: Ten steps for taking responsibility and moving forward emotionally.

October 2011 Newsletter

  • Modern U.S. Marriage and Divorce Trends: Judge Lynn Toler shares her experiences.
  • Divorce and Artwork: Expressing the emotions.
  • Negotiating Your Financial Settlement: Seven important factors to remember in every divorce agreement.
  • Weight Gain after Marriage and Divorce: Women tend to gain after marriage and men usually gain after divorce.
  • Angry and Alientated Parents Aren’t Good Parents: Don’t hurt your children’s self esteem by criticizing their parent.

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