Creating Clarity in Agreements
{3:00 minutes to read} At the beginning of a divorce, many couples have not considered the long-term changes that may unfold months or sometimes years down the road. When my clients are working toward an [...]
Life Lessons: Let Your Children Learn from Yours
By Rosalind Sedacca, CCT This article was written by Rosalind Sedacca and is being sent (with her permission) to my clients and friends since it reflects the work that Rosalind and I do and [...]
“Equitable” Distribution?
{3:36 minutes to read} When mediating their divorce, many couples want to know “what would happen if we went to court.” I suppose for many of them they want to be assured that what they [...]
Putting the Children First
{3 minutes to read} In my last post I outlined how the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA) works in New York. I recently worked with a couple who created an agreement that worked much better [...]
Child Support: The CSSA
The Child Support Standards Act (CSSA) imposes a legal obligation on parents to support their children until they are emancipated. This is defined to be the age of 21, unless they demonstrate that they can [...]
The Grey Divorce
{2:36 minutes to read} While the rate of divorce for the general population was relatively flat between 1990 and 2010, the divorce rate for couples age 50 and over doubled during that span. As a group, [...]
The “Mediation Friendly” Attorney
{2.9 mins to read} I have often heard mediators say that they recommend that their clients each see a “mediation friendly” attorney for legal advice either during or after the mediation process. But I do [...]
Why One Lawyer Is Better than Two
In my last blog post I suggested that sending mediation clients off to separate attorneys was not being helpful. In response to this proposition one reader, an attorney and mediator from California, suggested that I [...]
Judicial “Approval” of Divorce, Part II
Many divorce lawyers, as well as divorce mediators, did not agree with my suggestion in a recent blog post that a couple be allowed to obtain an uncontested divorce without court approval (Judicial “Approval” of [...]
Why Should a Judge “Approve” a Divorce?
Hal and Sheree had been dating for several years when they decided to get married. Neither had been married before, and they did not have any children, although they agreed they would like to someday. [...]