One way people get through the pain of their divorce is by sharing the details with their friends. They often discuss how much their divorce cost them. You may be surprised at the variation in figures. Understanding why someone spent so much can help you avoid the same mistakes. What mistakes could make my divorce more expensive? Here are some
Many couples turn to mediation when they divorce to help them settle complicated issues involving child custody, support, alimony and the division of high-value assets. What happens, however, if mediation doesn’t go as you’d hoped? Mediators are often therapists, attorneys, or retired judges specially trained to allow each party to share their points of view and identify common ground that can
If you’ve been through a divorce in Boston before, or know someone who has, you know how long and expensive the process can be. While divorce may not exactly be a picnic, innovative attorneys, lawmakers and even clients have found ways to save money and facilitate the process for everyone involved. If cost is any factor at all in your divorce, the
Divorce is a major decision with important emotional, financial and parenting aspects. Even if you’re sure divorce is the right decision, you may worry that the process of getting one will be so expensive and acrimonious that it’s almost worse than the status quo. Good news! You can take active steps before your divorce that could prevent that. Divorce mediation, for example,
People in Massachusetts know that divorce is a fact of life. It may not happen to everyone, but odds are that someone close has been through a divorce at one point or another in their lifetime. Divorce can be a defining thing in a person’s life, and how it is handled could be indicative of their future relationship with their
People in Massachusetts may have seen a recent New York Times article about the challenges of divorce, in particular the challenges divorcing couples face when they run a business together. It can be a tricky situation, but ex-spouses from mom and pop shops to major corporations have made it work. For a number of reasons, whether it’s because of shared
People in Boston and across the U.S. probably had to make sacrifices of one kind or another during the hard economic times of the late 2000’s. For a large number of married couples, that may have meant staying together. A new study has shown that during the recession, people were less likely to get a divorce. In 2007 there were 17.5
As the presidential race pulls into the home stretch, the names Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are pretty much inescapable. But few people could have predicted that one candidate’s testimony from a 1988 Massachusetts divorce proceeding would be the subject of media headlines. In late October, a Massachusetts judge agreed to release Mitt Romney’s testimony from the 1988 divorce proceedings of
Last week national and international news outlets picked up the story of a Massachusetts woman who has donated her kidney to her former mother-in-law. Though the donor had been divorced from the woman’s son for over eight years, she still found plenty of reasons to selflessly donate her kidney to save the woman’s life, and in some way, try to
For Massachusetts couples looking for opportunities for amicable divorces, there may soon be a new option. A concept known as a “divorce hotel” exists in the Netherlands, and could be available in the United States in the near future. The idea is that a couple seeking to avoid court litigation in their marriage dissolution checks into a hotel specifically designed
One way people get through the pain of their divorce is by sharing the details with their friends. They often discuss how much their divorce cost them. You may be surprised at the variation in figures. Understanding why someone spent so much can help you avoid the same mistakes. What mistakes could make my divorce more expensive? Here are some
Many couples turn to mediation when they divorce to help them settle complicated issues involving child custody, support, alimony and the division of high-value assets. What happens, however, if mediation doesn’t go as you’d hoped? Mediators are often therapists, attorneys, or retired judges specially trained to allow each party to share their points of view and identify common ground that can
If you’ve been through a divorce in Boston before, or know someone who has, you know how long and expensive the process can be. While divorce may not exactly be a picnic, innovative attorneys, lawmakers and even clients have found ways to save money and facilitate the process for everyone involved. If cost is any factor at all in your divorce, the
Divorce is a major decision with important emotional, financial and parenting aspects. Even if you’re sure divorce is the right decision, you may worry that the process of getting one will be so expensive and acrimonious that it’s almost worse than the status quo. Good news! You can take active steps before your divorce that could prevent that. Divorce mediation, for example,
People in Massachusetts know that divorce is a fact of life. It may not happen to everyone, but odds are that someone close has been through a divorce at one point or another in their lifetime. Divorce can be a defining thing in a person’s life, and how it is handled could be indicative of their future relationship with their
People in Massachusetts may have seen a recent New York Times article about the challenges of divorce, in particular the challenges divorcing couples face when they run a business together. It can be a tricky situation, but ex-spouses from mom and pop shops to major corporations have made it work. For a number of reasons, whether it’s because of shared
People in Boston and across the U.S. probably had to make sacrifices of one kind or another during the hard economic times of the late 2000’s. For a large number of married couples, that may have meant staying together. A new study has shown that during the recession, people were less likely to get a divorce. In 2007 there were 17.5
As the presidential race pulls into the home stretch, the names Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are pretty much inescapable. But few people could have predicted that one candidate’s testimony from a 1988 Massachusetts divorce proceeding would be the subject of media headlines. In late October, a Massachusetts judge agreed to release Mitt Romney’s testimony from the 1988 divorce proceedings of
Last week national and international news outlets picked up the story of a Massachusetts woman who has donated her kidney to her former mother-in-law. Though the donor had been divorced from the woman’s son for over eight years, she still found plenty of reasons to selflessly donate her kidney to save the woman’s life, and in some way, try to
For Massachusetts couples looking for opportunities for amicable divorces, there may soon be a new option. A concept known as a “divorce hotel” exists in the Netherlands, and could be available in the United States in the near future. The idea is that a couple seeking to avoid court litigation in their marriage dissolution checks into a hotel specifically designed
