Couples and Money Wars
When couples fight about money, it is often a much deeper argument than about who bought an iPad or designer shoes. Granted it sometimes may be as simple as, “We just can’t afford it” or “Our credit...
View ArticleWorking Moms & Stay-at-Home-Dads…Can it Work?
For some time, a growing number of younger, educated women have chosen to establish a career before marriage. When many eventually marry and have kids, they often continue working and may even become...
View ArticleRecipes for Blending Families
A friend of mine recently asked me for some advice on blended families. To quote her, “I am in one and it’s the hardest thing I have ever done.” She is a woman of wisdom because she is aware of the...
View ArticleAmicable Divorce: Is It Possible?
Recently, Courteney Cox of Friends fame and her husband David Arquette filed for divorce, almost simultaneously. Neither hired an attorney – at least not yet. It would seem to be an amicable divorce in...
View ArticleReligious Wars in Divorce
While Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise may well be the most high-profile divorcing couple to disagree over religion, they are certainly not alone. The religion they were respectively fighting for and...
View ArticleLegal Issues of Relocating with a Child
Halle Berry: Saying “au revoir” to California and “bon jour” to Paris One of the least understood issues in family law are the legal rights available to a sole or joint custodial parent to move...
View ArticleIf Marriage Is a Partnership
Most people have heard of a prenuptial agreement, but few may know about a post-nup. However, the use of post-nuptial agreements is “on the rise,” according to a recent survey by the American Academy...
View ArticleSocial Networking Your Way Out of Love
Sadly, people can always find new ways to betray each other, and social networking online has probably made it easier. A spouse may have “reconnected” with an old love or found a new one, thanks to the...
View ArticleRed Flags at The Altar
A recent on-line article quoted Reese Witherspoon as always having suspected her first marriage would fail. It reminded me of the volumes of similar stories I’ve heard as a lawyer for divorcing...
View ArticleOnline Dating In 2013: Who Can You Really Trust?
Internet dating sites have been around for a while now, and there’s no denying their popularity. Who among us hasn’t done at least a little ‘site-seeing’ and considered the possibility of meeting a...
View ArticleThere’s Something about ‘Girls’
I’ve become fascinated with the HBO hit series Girls, about 20-somethings in New York trying to stake out their lives. Sex in the City may have been more glam, with its gorgeous cast and Hollywood...
View ArticleThe American Relationship
In the aftermath of the Boston terrorist attack, our routine relationship problems and issues seem to pale in significance to what Bostonians have been forced to deal with. Who wouldn’t be strengthened...
View ArticleSettling an Old Tennis Score
Jimmy Connors, of long-ago tennis fame, has written a book. In an obvious attempt to stir up interest, certain juicy teasers have been ‘leaked.’ Among them is the strong implication by Mr. Connors that...
View ArticleThe Emotional Side of Wedding Planning
The month of June unmistakably reigns as the most popular month for weddings. Wedding planners are at their busiest, helping harried brides, grooms and their families prepare for the big day. Sure, the...
View ArticleDomestic Violence in High Places
A trending story about the multimillionaire former advertising guru, Charles Saatchi, who allegedly choked his celebrity chef wife, Nigella Lawson, confirms that being rich and famous offers no...
View ArticleDigital Media and Divorce Don’t Mix
In the digital age, anything you do, say or post online can and may be used against you in a court of law. That is especially true when it comes to divorce. Consider this: one of every five divorces in...
View ArticleCan There Be a ‘Too Good’ Wife?
This good wife thing is getting really interesting, and I don’t just mean the hit CBS TV show by the same name. (In the interest of full disclosure, my daughter is an executive with CBS- TV and has...
View ArticleCan Modern Dads Be Good Dads?
The new A&E reality show, Modern Dads, would have us believe that stay-at-home dads are neglectful, self-centered skirt chasers who have changed very little since frat house days. On this show,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Being a Silver-haired Statistic
Couples age 50 and over are divorcing in record numbers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Just 50 years ago, fewer than 3 percent of couples over 50 were divorced. In 2011, some 15 percent were...
View ArticleLessons Learned From a Documentary
Women and men certainly have many relationship issues to contend to including love, hate, revenge, intimate terrorism, and certainly domestic abuse and violence, both verbal and physical. That fact was...
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