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Recent Posts from Westchester Divorce Blog

• Don’t Sit Around During Divorce . . . Stay Busy!

  The biggest mistake you can make during divorce is to have too much time on your hands.  Being idle during this process is to be avoided, because for most people divorce is a difficult process,…

• A New Year, A New You?

  I am not someone who subscribes to the idea of New Year’s resolutions. How many people have promised to lose weight, take better care of themselves, eat better, and promise to be nicer to  .…

• Lessons from a Recent Tragedy

  The Christmas Eve massacre in California has raised a lot of significant questions, and some of these questions center around the couple’s recent divorce.  There are some hard lessons that anyone who is going through…

• DIY Divorce - A Bad Idea

  Media reports recently have targeted a new trend in some states – people representing themselves in their divorce cases.  The statistics on this “trend” is somewhat spotty, but news stories are popping up all over…

• A Holiday Gift for Your Ex-Spouse

  Let’s remember that the Holiday Season is a time not just for giving and receiving, but for forgiving too.  So, if you decide that you might want to consider getting a gift for an ex-spouse,…

• Divorce and the Holiday Season

  The Holiday Season is stressful enough during the best of times, but for people recently divorced or going through divorce it can be the worst time of the year.  But it doesn’t have to be.…

• Preparing for Divorce - Get a Job or Not?

  There is definitely more than one school of thought when contemplating an action plan for divorce.  Things like: ·      Establishing your own line of credit ·      Deciding what personal property you want to keep after…

• Does Divorce Have to Cost a Fortune?

  That’s really not as simple a question as one might think.  If you are someone who requires daily phone calls and e-mails with your attorney, if you change your mind about strategy like some people…

• Is the Term “Civil Divorce” an Oxymoron?

  Believe it or not, we are seeing more clients who are both convinced that they should not stay married and that they should have a civil divorce. One primary reason for this trend is that…

• Online Divorce - Not the Way to Go

  We have all seen the commercials about doing your own will by buying a template online.  These commercials claim they can guide you through a divorce for a couple of hundred dollars, no muss, and…