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Litigation, mediation and the psychology of divorce

The adversary legal system has frequently been criticized by the mental health professions as poorly designed to meet the psychological needs of families. This article explores why that criticism is...

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Divorce Doesn’t Have to Mean Going Broke

How mediation saves a great deal of money A mediated divorce saves clients many thousands of dollars. In a typical adversarial divorce using lawyers you can expect to pay each lawyer an initial...

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The Six Signs of Impending Divorce

The next time you are in a restaurant look for the sad couple eating dinner in silence. They make little or no eye contact and have little or no conversation. They are completely disengaged and are...

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An Open Letter to Therapists of Divorcing Couples

After more than thirty years as a divorce lawyer and mediator, I have worked with over four thousand couples.  I have a good sense of how the system works, and a multitude of additional resources for...

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Should You Fire Your Divorce Attorney?

About half of divorcing people report that they are unhappy with their lawyers. Some are so unhappy that they fire their lawyer and hire another one. And some of those people find that they are just as...

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Co Parenting after the Divorce

Post divorce issues can be just as confusing to manage as those that come up during the divorce negotiation, and support may not always be easy to find.  For this reason I am writing a weekly column at...

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How long should I wait for my lawyer to return my call?

People often reach out to me with questions about their divorce lawyers and what is currently happening with their case.  They often ask things like whether a fee is reasonable, how to tell if the...

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Why should you download one more free eBook? Because this one will help.

I have long thought that if I could get people to read one of my books on divorce … I could change their minds about how divorce should be done and then change their approach to their own divorce.  I …...

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