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Creating a Workable Parenting Agreement
Communication and cooperation between parents are essential to effective parenting. When everyone lives in the same home, parents often regularly relay information and coordinate responses
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Divorce After 50
The reasons that lead a couple to divorce are complicated and vary from situation to situation. It may be that after a long-term marriage, the
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Self-Care and Divorce
Divorce can bring out sides of your personality you barely recognize. It can also cause you to enter a near-constant state of anger, sadness, anxiety,
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Surviving Divorce: Letting go of anger and embracing forgiveness (forgiving isn’t always forgetting but some research suggests it helps!)
Going through a divorce can feel as though you and your life have been turned inside out. During this process, you will be in an adversarial posture
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Creating a Healing Place After Divorce
After the divorce papers are signed, and everything becomes final, the case activity stops, and your post-divorce life begins. While the stress of property division or child custody
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The Emotionally Intelligent Divorce
The term “Emotional Intelligence” is commonly used in popular culture to describe the quality of being aware of your emotions and behaviors and those of
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Common Myths About Divorce
It is hard to know what to expect when you and the person you thought you were going to spend the rest of your life
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Is Divorce Mediation Right for You?
In Wisconsin, one way to resolve your divorce case is through mediation. During mediation, each side and their attorney will meet with a trained mediator who
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Extended Family Relationships and Divorce
In many cases, being part of a family is not just about your spouse but will also involve their siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and