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Category Archives: Blind Spots
How complicated is divorce, really?
Among too many uncritically examined “givens” you’ll hear bandied about the courthouse as truth, I’ll note the following. Every family situation is unique. No judge could decide better than the married spouses themselves what’s best in organizing their separation in divorce than they are, themselves. Or— Believe me: You’re really not gonna like it if [...]
Posted in Blind Spots, Control, Legal Matters, Negotiation
Tagged as: complicated, custom, divorce, expense, husband, mediation, negotiation, parenting time, spouse, wife
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“How To ‘Not’ Use Social Media” when divorcing
“Dating After Divorce: How To Not Use Social Media,” is the title of a piece by “comedian” Juliet Jeske on the Huffington Post. After two introductory paragraphs, Ms Jeske gets down to it with 10 points she recommends be followed. Then closes with this bit of wisdom. You are bound to be slightly insane after a divorce, [...]
Posted in Blind Spots, Communication, Emotions, Unhooking
Tagged as: anger, communications, divorce, divorce recovery, divorce story, facebooks, letting go, self-talk, social media, unhooking
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Lack of follow-through undermines study
Before cliché (once again) goes mainstream, I thought it important to weigh-in on the recently-publicized “findings” with regard to children from divorced families and math scores. Published in the June American Sociological Review, Hyun Sik Kim, a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, found: Somewhat surprisingly, children of divorce do not [...]
Posted in Blind Spots, Parenting / Co-Parenting
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Convoluted “explanation” of dropping divorce rate
Thought you might be interested in this article from the Denver Post today. Titled, “Colorado divorce rate plummets during recession,” the lead photo shows a woman who gives the impression of being someone under almost any other circumstances would present herself well-coifed and prepared to impress. Here, however, her look is more akin to the [...]
Posted in Blind Spots, Finances, Patience
Tagged as: decline, denver post, divorce, divorce rate, reconciliation, statistics
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Does marriage fulfill the “meeting of minds” legal standard?
As I am not a lawyer and don’t play one on TV, it is with great reluctance that I pull out my Black’s Law Dictionary for divorce-related matters. But it seems some sort of an accountability must be found to the increasing number of married folks who come to divorce practitioners in utter amazement at [...]
Posted in Blind Spots, Communication, Legal Matters, Prenuptials, Relationships
Tagged as: Ann Arbor divorce, Black's Law Dictionary, marital contract, marriage license, meeting of minds, meeting of the minds, Michigan divorce, pre-marital counseling, Washtenaw County Clerk, Washtenaw divorce
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