Dirty Tricks

Some husbands and their divorce teams will do anything to gain the upper hand in a divorce. They can play some really dirty tricks to make sure you are beaten down emotionally and financially. Don’t think these things don’t happen. They happen every day, especially when the divorce is a financially complex one.   These […]

Hiding Assets

If you are a woman going through a divorce, the chances that your husband is hiding assets is great—and it happens much more frequently than most women expect. Hiding assets during a divorce is sneaky, unethical and illegal—but it happens in almost every divorce!  If your husband is hiding assets, that means that you won’t get the divorce […]

Internet Privacy

There is no such thing as Internet privacy!  And there is no escaping the fact that the Internet knows more about you than you’d like. Your life is an open book. When someone Googles your name they can find out much more about you than you’d want. But Google doesn’t tap into the extensive world […]

Benefits of Exercise

Exercise  is the “fountain of youth.” Aerobic exercise  builds endurance and strengthens the heart. Exercise creates new brain cells and can help ward off cancer and diabetes. Strength training builds muscles—and you are never too old to build muscles!  It can also keep you from accumulating the wrong kind of body fat. 1.   Exercise can […]

Estate Planning Strategies

There are several strategies you should consider when doing your estate planning. First, you should consider making gifts to the beneficiaries of your Will while you are still alive—during your lifetime. This is generally better than giving them money through your estate. Ask your accountant what the estate taxes re gifts currently are. You can […]

Estate Planning

Everyone, especially someone who has recently gotten a divorce, should do their estate planning. The first thing you need to do is to take stock of your assets and liabilities. This can include a list of the value of your home or apartment and other physical assets; recent statements from your bank and brokerage accounts; […]

Infidelity—Can you forgive?

Can you ever forgive infidelity? And, can you ever recover from infidelity? It is very difficult to forgive (and forget) someone when they have been unfaithful.  The first thing you have to think about and ask yourself  is—do you really want to—or is this the perfect excuse to end or get out of a bad […]

Child Custody

On June 13, 2012, in Blog, Divorce & Children, Divorce Advice, Prepare for Divorce, by Leslye

When parents are getting a divorce, whose needs should be more important—those of the parents or those of the children? When parents divorce, their child custody plans are supposed to put the “best interests of the child or children” first. Children’s needs change as they grow. Unfortunately, the way the child custody schedules are they […]