Collaborative Divorce: Getting Down to Business

The longer I practice collaborative divorce, the more benefits of the process I discover. Case in point:  I recently helped a client who owned her own small business.  She had owned the business for a decade or more when the couple decided to divorce. ...

Spending Your Marriage Away

As a divorce attorney, I see a lot of marriages that suffer from financial stressors.  It has been a matter of simple observation that debt creates marital stress and sometimes lead to divorce. In his short article “Bank on It: Thrifty Couples are the...

Divorce Negotiation: Maximize Your Influence

One thing that I try to convey to clients in family law or divorce matters is the difference between control and influence.  Control is the ability to determine the outcome of a situation.  In contrast, influence is the ability to affect the outcome of a...

Divorce Processes: Impact of Early Decisions

One dynamic that I see repeated in family law matters is that most families stay on the legal path that they chose at the beginning of the divorce.  For instance, most couples that pick-up the sledgehammer of litigation from the beginning stay on the litigation...