Recent Blog Posts
Spousal Maintenance
Spousal Maintenance is generally awarded to a spouse who sacrificed their own career for the benefit of the marriage. New York has adopted “guidelines” that were intended to standardize the amount and duration of Spousal Support. These guidelines use the income of each person to determine the amount of support [...]
Child-Centered Parenting Plans
{2:42 minutes to read} When I work with couples who have children, we usually spend a significant amount of time coming up with a parenting plan. The focus of this conversation is not only how parenting is going to be different following a separation, but how it will be the [...]
The Not-So-Golden Years, Part 2
{3:00 minutes to read} In Part 1, I outlined a mediation I conducted whereby the wife had left the workforce for several years to care for the children, which left her in a very tenuous financial situation when she was ready to retire. To recap, the husband was earning about $120,000 [...]
When the Values of the Mediator and the Client Conflict
{2:54 minutes to read} Recently, I was reading a discussion on a divorce mediation group’s listserv about weapons in a mediation room. A mediator met with a couple, and one spouse, a police officer, was wearing a holstered gun. While few details were given, the scenario made me think about [...]