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Homeownership after Divorce: The Emotions and Financial Reality BY JEFF LANDERS, CDLP®, CDFA® CEO and Founder, Divorce House Sense®, Divorced Girl Smiling Trusted Professional Divorce is a wild rollercoaster ride of emotions with  major life-changing decisions  that need to be made during a period of tremendous stress. One of the biggest decisions has to do with homeownership after divorce. Will you stay in your home? Will you sell it? Will you buy a new home? Will you rent? As far as your divorce attorney, financial advisor, and accountant are concerned, once the issues surrounding your children – custody, visitation, etc. – are resolved, the rest of your divorce issues are, more or less, about the money. In most cases, you will either sell your home, or one of you will keep it, your assets and debts will be divided, and someone will probably have to pay alimony and/or child support.  But to you, this is your life, your savings, your children, your future…your home. And ...

Life after divorce for a woman might seem really scary.  The lifestyle changes of divorce  can feel brutal.  Financial adjustments,  living alone, dating… some of these can actually feel like a nightmare. But despite that  change is really scary,  there is a lot of good that comes with change. Most people don’t see it that way until they’ve been through it. As I find myself waiting up most nights for my college-aged kids to get home, I often wish I could go back to the evenings when the routine consisted of giving my  little children  baths, helping them brush their teeth, reading them a bedtime story, and tucking them into bed with a kiss—all before 8pm. I remember feeling like this ritual made my kids feel loved, safe and secure.   A reader feels the same way I did, however, this young mom is  going through a divorce  and wrote this:   I’m devastated at the thought of not tucking my son into bed every night.    ...

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call Chicago IL Divorce Lawyers Now...... Call Now 312-374-4559  

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call Chicago IL Divorce Lawyers Now...... Call Now 312-374-4559  

Are You Giving Away Your Power In Your Divorce? BY KAREN COVY Divorce and Decision Coach, Former Divorce Attorney and Mediator, Divorced Girl Smiling Trusted Professional No one in their right mind would ever knowingly give up their ability to control their own future, would they? Surprisingly,  when it comes to divorce , I see people doing exactly that every single day. Without even realizing it, you may be giving away your power in your divorce. Giving Away Your Power in Your Divorce? 7 Ways You Might Be: 1.  Going to court. There is no quicker or surer way to give away your power in divorce than to let a judge, who doesn’t know you or your family, decide what is going to happen to you and  your children.  Think about it. At what other time in your life would you let a total stranger decide when you could see your kids, what kind of parenting rules you must use, and what you will do with your money?   2.  You let your attorney handle everything, without q...

When I think of a bully, I think of grade school or middle school kids being mean on the playground. But any one at any age can be a bully and that includes  during divorce.  I’m talking about the divorce bully. When people are getting divorced, they deal with all kinds of emotions:  resentment,  anger, hurt, bitterness, fear,  confusion and more. Sometimes, a person can take their emotions–especially anger combined with fear, and become a divorce bully. Reasons a person becomes a bully in divorce: 1. Self-protection: The bully feels like if he is the aggressor, by scaring or threatening her, she won’t to be able to hurt him. 2. Fear: The divorce bully, just like you, is scared. Really scared. But they choose to keep that  fear underneath the anger. 3. Pain: The divorce bully is hurting badly and again, they choose to bury their pain underneath their tough bullying shell. Here are few statements a divorce bully might say to his/her ex: “The judge is going t...

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call Chicago IL Divorce Lawyers Now...... Call Now 312-374-4559  

Chicago Illinois Divorce and Family Law, Mehta Family Law Group of Chicago. The Mehta Law Group is one of Chicago’s premier law firms. Our team of lawyers and staff are here to serve you and to help you build a better future for yourself and your family. We represent individuals, families, and children in every aspect of the legal process from beginning to end. Our attorneys bring with them over 30 years of combined experience, we are professional, and treat every individual with the respect they deserve. We are hardworking and don’t back down, our goals is always to advocate for our clients, to ensure a positive end result... Call Chicago IL Divorce Lawyers Now...... Call Now 312-374-4559  

Divorce and the Power of Social Media The reality is that divorce is tough enough without having the immediacy of social media outlets being some kind of a “go-to” for you to purge your frustrations and heartbreak. By  Michelle Moore, PhD   Updated: April 05, 2023 Categories:  Coping with Divorce ,  Divorce Recovery ,  Legal Issues Oftentimes people turn to their social media platforms as a mode of informing and communicating every thought, usually, at the moment the thoughts occur. This can be a slippery slope when you are in the middle of a divorce. Your emotions may be heightened  and a social media site may feel like the perfect place to throw an icy comment about your soon-to-be ex-spouse. The reality is that divorce is tough enough without having the immediacy of social media outlets being some kind of a “go-to” for you to purge your frustrations and heartbreak. The consequence is then having to deal with the cost of that outburst, both emotionally an...