Credit Card Debt

Pay on time every time—and that doesn’t mean the day its due.  Credit card companies have due dates, and if you miss them by an hour you get slapped with a late fee.

Yves Saint Laurent

On November 20, 2009, in Blog, Divorce Advice, Leslye's Quotes and Notes, Prepare for Divorce, by leslye

“The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of a man she loves.  But for those who haven’t had the good fortune of finding happiness, I am there.”  Yves Saint Laurent died of a brain tumor in June at the age of seventy-one.  He was one of the most creative couturiers […]

Don’t Let A Judge Decide For You

The minute you make the decision to go to court and have a judge make the decisions in your divorce, you give up nearly all your control over the divorce process. If you want to keep your money instead of giving it to a divorce attorney, and if you want to maintain control over your […]

Interviewing and Hiring a Divorce Attorney

It is very important that any divorce attorney you interview and consider hiring should be experienced in handling divorce cases in your area.  An experienced divorce attorney will know what to expect of the judges in your jurisdiction and will be able to use this knowledge to your advantage. Never hire the first divorce attorney […]

Life

On November 13, 2009, in Blog, Divorce Advice, Leslye's Quotes and Notes, Prepare for Divorce, by leslye

“Life is the greatest bargain—we get it for nothing.” —Yiddish proverb

Mark Twain on Travel

On November 8, 2009, in Blog, Divorce Advice, Leslye's Quotes and Notes, Prepare for Divorce, by leslye

More of us are traveling around globe. How great! In 1869 Mark Twain, the American writer said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitible views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth […]

Your Attorney

It is very important that you: 1.  Stay involved in your case.  Don’t let your attorney run the show and dictate strategy. 2.  Don’t forget that you are the boss and your attorney is your employee. 3.  Don’t tolerate mediocrity from your attorney. 4.  Don’t accept “I don’t know” answers from your attorney. 5.  Don’t […]

Single in Manhattan

On November 2, 2009, in Blog, Divorce Advice, Divorce Information, Marriage, Prepare for Divorce, by leslye

More than half of all Manhattan residents are living alone—and the number of singles in the city is continuing to rise to historic levels, new Census Bureau data shows. Women, however, are at a disadvantage.  There are 212,000 single female households compared with 165,000 male single households.