How Divorce Affects Your Mental Health and How to Cope

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Your mental health matters during your divorce. Simple self-care steps, such as maintaining a regular sleep schedule, engaging in gentle exercise, and limiting well-meaning but unhelpful advice from friends, can make a huge difference in how you cope day-to-day. But here’s what many people don’t realize: how you choose to divorce makes all the difference…

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How to Tell Your Children About the Divorce

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Telling your kids about divorce feels overwhelming, but with the right approach, you can help them through this difficult transition. Your children need honesty, reassurance, and most importantly, they need to know this major life change isn’t their fault. Unlike traditional court battles, which often create adversarial situations, collaborative divorce maintains a peaceful and respectful…

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Financial Considerations in Divorce: Dividing Assets and Debts

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When you’re facing divorce, one of your biggest concerns is likely how your financial assets and debts will be divided. You’ve worked hard to build your financial foundation together, and now you need to separate it in a way that’s fair to both of you. The traditional divorce approach sends you to court, where a…

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Co-Parenting After Divorce: Tips for Effective Communication

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When you and your spouse opt to divorce outside of court through a collaborative process, you can preserve your family unit. The process is amicable, for both of you – not win/lose like in a litigated divorce. Not only that, but your family is supported by a team of divorce experts who value amicable resolutions…

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