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How a Steady, New Career Can Help After Your Divorce

  How a Steady, New Career Can Help After Your Divorce For many, divorce is a precursor for the start of an incredibly impactful and steady career. Participating in a new career after your divorce can impact your life in several beneficial ways.  By  Paisley Hansen   Updated: July 07, 2022 Categories:  Coping with Divorce ,  Divorce Recovery ,  Life After Divorce More often than not, divorce is a major life-changing event and stressor. After all, divorces are notoriously  hurtful and heartbreaking . However, after you heal from your divorce, you can use your experiences to inspire positive change in your life as you recover. For many, divorce is a precursor for the start of an incredibly impactful and steady career. Participating in a steady career after the end of a marriage can impact your life in several beneficial ways.  A Steady Career Will Utilize Alone Time and Establish Routine Since marital splits tend to disrupt daily routines, many...

Prenups and Remarriage: Should Couples Entering Remarriage Consider a Prenuptial Agreement?

  Prenups and Remarriage: Should Couples Entering Remarriage Consider a Prenuptial Agreement? While often thought of as a negative signal to the other person and a risk factor for divorce, the advantage of a prenuptial agreement is that it can protect a couple with unequal assets or if one person feels insecure about finances. By  Terry Gaspard   Updated: July 06, 2022 Categories:  Conflict Resolution ,  Financial Issues ,  Legal Issues When Robert, 54, and Alexa, 48, met with me for couples counseling, they expressed a difference of opinion about whether or not they should get a prenuptial agreement. Both had been married and divorced, had grown children, and were considering getting remarried. For Robert, a prenup was a deal-breaker and he was unwilling to proceed to marriage without it. A Real Estate developer, he had significant savings and owned three homes, worth over $500,00 each. In Alexa’s case, she did have savings but didn’t own property and was ...

How Housing Problems are Effecting Divorcing Couples

  How Housing Problems are Effecting Divorcing Couples Those looking to sell their matrimonial home or buy out their spouse from the property are finding out that the present market conditions are increasingly becoming unfavorable. By  Marian Grande   Updated: July 05, 2022 Categories:  Coping with Divorce ,  Divorce Recovery ,  Financial Issues ,  Life After Divorce It seems more couples divorcing cannot take on the responsibility of handling two homes. Divorcing couples are being hit especially hard by Canada’s rapidly declining home prices, rising borrowing rates, and skyrocketing living costs.   Housing problems are affecting divorcing couples. It’s problematic, if not impossible, for divorced couples to enter the  home-buying market . The emotional toll divorce can take on a family can be substantial. Those looking to sell their matrimonial home or buy out their spouse from the property are finding out that the present market conditions ...

Southside's Top Child Support Lawyers

  MLG LAW GROUP 121 West Wacker Drive Suite 1404 Chicago, IL. 60601 http://www.mlglawgroupillinois.com/ #letsguide How do you prove a parent unfit in Illinois? How do I prove the other parent is unfit? Abandonment. Habitual substance abuse problems. Physical or emotional abuse. Mental illness or instability. Putting the children in an unsafe living environment. Being incarcerated. Not being interested in the children's welfare. Neglect.

Chicago's Top Rated Divorce Lawyers

  MLG LAW GROUP 121 West Wacker Drive Suite 1404 Chicago, IL. 60601 http://www.mlglawgroupillinois.com/ #letsguide How do you prove a parent unfit in Illinois? How do I prove the other parent is unfit? Abandonment. Habitual substance abuse problems. Physical or emotional abuse. Mental illness or instability. Putting the children in an unsafe living environment. Being incarcerated. Not being interested in the children's welfare. Neglect.

What is the Impact of Infidelity on Divorce?

  What is the Impact of Infidelity on Divorce? Infidelity is unquestionably grounds for divorce. After all, most people promise to be faithful to their partners in their wedding vows. Here's what you need to know about how infidelity can impact a divorce and what to expect in your own split. By  Brent Kaspar   Updated: June 28, 2022 Categories:  Considering Divorce ,  Coping with Divorce Infidelity is never an easy thing. For many people, it’s  grounds for divorce . After all, most people promise to be faithful to their partners in their wedding vows. Breaking that promise is a clear sign that your spouse doesn’t respect you enough to be true to their word. It’s challenging to move past that kind of violation of trust. You’re probably feeling hurt and betrayed. You may also be hoping that your partner’s unfaithfulness can be held against them if you get a divorce. The answer to that question varies depending on the contracts involved in your marriage. Here’...

Forgiveness Can be Found by Changing Your Perception

  Forgiveness Can be Found by Changing Your Perception Forgiveness is a gift. Once we unwrap it and use it, we begin to feel the freedom that it gives. The inability to forgive creates a block within that doesn’t allow us to grow and love freely. By  Donna McGoff   Updated: June 24, 2022 Categories:  Coping with Divorce ,  Divorce Recovery ,  Life After Divorce Forgiveness is a gift. Once we unwrap it and use it, we begin to feel the freedom that it gives. The inability to forgive creates a block within that doesn’t allow us to grow and love freely. Forgiveness can be Found! Many years after Katlin’s divorce, she is still  unable to forgive  the pain and anguish that this trauma causes. As a result, she’s unable to create the space inside that is needed to open up her heart again. She is closed to allowing herself to feel healthy vulnerability to love again or feel joy and happiness. Simply put, she’s “stuck”. Kaitlin often says to herself, “I kno...