Family

Children cheering up father while he talking to female counselor on therapy session

Divorce: “Now you’re interested in the kids?”

By Jennifer Safian / December 4, 2019

{3 minutes to read}  A married couple with children had agreed that one of them would be the stay-at-home parent while the other would be the breadwinner. Fast forward to divorce. The parent who is working outside of the home, and now wants out of the marriage, has requested to have the children 50% of…

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The Difficult Conversations of Divorce

By Jennifer Safian / April 18, 2019

{3:30 minutes to read} Short of admitting to ourselves that our marriage is over, telling our children, parents, friends, and even people at work, can be most difficult –  even scary. Telling our children. We feel guilty about disrupting their stability as we know that their lives will be changed considerably by the divorce.

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inside or outside of the mediation room – it works

By Jennifer Safian / October 1, 2014

Lara and Tom were in my office for their third session. The first two meetings flowed well as they worked through a parenting schedule. Now it was time to work out their finances. Though they were aware of each other’s salaries, they never discussed and knew little about the value of each other’s assets. Lara…

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