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Wondering when your divorce will finally be over? Here's how to understand and manage your divorce timeline and put your divorce behind you.

The increasingly popular phenomenon offers a kinder, gentler way to split the sheets.

In New York you must give a statement of net worth to divorce. In Mississippi, Impotence and "idiocy" are grounds for divorce. Read on for even more surprising divorce laws.

For many individuals, a divorce is the first time in their life they have met with a lawyer or visited a courthouse. Understandably, this can be an intimidating prospect. When you’re already going through the process of ending your marriage, the idea of a legal battle on top of it can make an already stressful …

The process of Collaborative Divorce is becoming more popular across the country, and across the world. Crafting settlement agreements that are truly tailored to the needs of a specific family, and avoiding court altogether, is the way forward. Finally, laws are catching up with

In life, mistakes are inevitable. The key is to learn from the mistake and move forward in a better direction.

Divorce controversies often arise from financial concerns. Using a Financial Neutral in the collaborative divorce process can reduce this stress.

Divorce and custody mediation creates a safe, cooperative setting for participants to discuss emotional and substantive issues and engage in collaborative problem-solving. Participants open lines of communication, gain clarity and a better understanding of their own and each other's interests.

If you’re trying to decide between collaborative or litigation, you need someone that really understands both. Find a lawyer that you can trust and listen.

Spousal support, also known as alimony or maintenance, is a legal obligation for one spouse to financially support the other after a divorce is final. In many litigious divorces, the issue of alimony is one of the primary roadblocks. The good news is that, like with all financial issues in a divorce, it may be possible to resolve the issue of spousal support through the collaborative divorce process.

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Creating a realistic budget for the future can seem daunting, especially for women who are facing divorce.

Spousal support, also known as alimony or maintenance, is a legal obligation for one spouse to financially support the other after a divorce is final. In many litigious divorces, the issue of alimony is one of the primary roadblocks. The good news is that, like with all financial issues in a divorce, it may be possible to resolve the issue of spousal support through the collaborative divorce process.

Your divorce settlement agreement should include your co-parenting plan, division of assets, your house (if you can afford it), and other key considerations.

We Are More Present to Our Kids When We Practice Self-Care Self-care is important for all individuals, but especially during and after a divorce. Divorce can be really hard for all involved, but it can be especially tough on children. When you are taking care of yourself, you are more present to your children's needs,

The effects of divorce on a child can be disastrous and mentally tough. Healing a child after divorce depends on you how you react, adapt and communicate.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot of time, stress, and costs associated with divorce. However, if you and your spouse can approach divorce as a problem...

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Preparing for divorce for the stay-at-home mom is a lot more than picking up the phone and calling an attorney. Here are tips to get you started.

Here's a handy glossary with a list of legal divorce terms you are going to come across in your divorce paperwork and filings. It's helped me in my divorce!

As long as we blame our ex for how we feel or think, we will remain victims and powerless to change or move forward. It's so easy to blame our ex for our choices, but at the end of the day, we need to admit that they are OUR choices. No one can make us

The divorce attorney you choose to represent you and protect your interest will have a monumental impact on the outcome.

Breaking up doesn't have to mean going broke.

In mediation, an impartial third party, who acts as the mediator, assists the parties with their negotiations and tries to help them settle their dispute. The mediator does not have to be an attorney and cannot act as an advocate for either side or give either party legal advice. In other words, if an agreement … How Does Mediation Differ from Collaborative Law? Read More »

Despite all the attention given to divorces that end up in a trial in front of a judge, the reality is that about 95% of all cases settle before that...

No matter how tough you are, divorce is an emotional and financial roller coaster from start to finish. You’ll face a number of challenges along the way,...

Your gut is telling you that your marriage is on the rocks, and you suspect your spouse wants a divorce, because you are seeing signs that you shouldn’t ignore.

Preparing for divorce for the stay-at-home mom is a lot more than picking up the phone and calling an attorney. Here are tips to get you started.

A little bit of a longer entry-stick with me for this ride! It is well worth it. There are lots of pictures to keep everyones' attention. Stacks of paper just rife for the losing. This is a teacher's biggest fear. I remember as a beginning teacher that I would take home mounds of grading and I would guard these papers like they were Knoxville gold bars. When I got home, I would spread them out on my kitchen table in neatly laid piles (since my type A personality knows no bounds) and the piles would shift, move, and eventually be neatly re-stacked and added to my bag once more. I can tell you, I've ruined three bags with the over pregnant state from the contents within destroying the zipper. This vicious cycle continued and I certainly lost papers in the meantime, leading to awkward conversations with students, begging that they check their jump drives one more time for a copy. Then my life was changed with Doctopus with Goobric for Google Apps for Education. I'd like to thank my colleague Darren for this life-changing introduction. For those who don't know, Doctopus and Goobric work in tandem to create, utilize, and disseminate rubrics for a variety of assignments. With the help of its partner in crime, Google Classroom, I began to have students turn in work they had completed online, graded it online, typed in extensive commentary (which was much easier than hand writing it, am I right?) and have sent back the completed rubric to the students via their Gmail. This process also helped to compile records of student work for parents, just in case students accidentally tripped and dropped a paper in the wastepaper basket, because they would never, EVER throw away passed back work, right? So, how does this magic work? If you've used it before, skip ahead to my take-aways, otherwise read on! AFTER INSTALLING and AUTHORIZING DOCTOPUS and the Chrome Extension GOOBRIC.. 1. Create an assignment for students in classroom and share out the template with students (or you can have students complete an assignment and turn it in through classroom, whichever you prefer). I would also share out a PDF of the rubric for reference. 2. Students turn in the work through Google classroom. 3. Create a spreadsheet for each class for this assignment, which will house all the details and grades of the assignment. Make sure to have a naming convention. (Ex. SpanishReview B Period). 4. Launch Doctopus in the Google Sheet and choose "Ingest Google CR assignment", select the class, and select the particular assignment you want to "ingest". Click "Ingest assignment". 5. This will now create a new tab on the existing spreadsheet that has each student's piece of work: Their first and last name, email address, file key, file name, link to the document, status (turned in or not), last edited date, grade, and your written feedback. 6. Click on "Attach Goobric" and select the file with your rubric from your Drive. It will give you options to make rubric viewable to students, which I would check, allow self/peer assessment (your choice), and send email notification to students, which I would select. Click "attach rubric". This will add another tab to your spreadsheet. Now each category is broken down, if you want to tease out categorical data. NOTE-you will have to do this each time for each new Google Sheet you will make for each class. That's it! Now you can click the links to start grading! When you click the link next to each student's name, it will open their document. Now, this is where Goobric comes in. ONCE IN THE FIRST STUDENT'S DOCUMENT... 1. Click the Goobric extension opener. It will then reopen the document you opened with a rubric at the top to add point values and a comment box to add your comments and email comments. As you complete the rubric, you can send off the document to the student's email address with commentary and that rubric will appear at the bottom of the document as well. Ready for the next student? Click "Next" (as you can see is next to "submit" in the picture above" or the drop down box above the comment box to jump to different students in that class. You can also record audio commentary as well. Next to the black box (which I used to black out student's name) on the top right you can see icons for record, pause, and stop. Haven't tried it, but I bet it's great! PHEW! That's it. Let me show you a completed rubric Doctopus Google Sheet. You can see the authors' names, links for each document, timestamp, rubric categories, total score, and comments. The best part, it's ALL IN ONE PLACE! TAKEAWAYS -All students' written work stays in once place, in one Googlesheet, with the data broken down and written commentary. It's amazing and it saved me MOUNDS of time. It is amazingly easy to use and teaches students to check their emails, too! (added benefit). -It teases out student data to see where they succeeded and where they need room for growth. This is great in the era of data collection. -The first time using this is a bit taxing, but gets easier as time goes on, I promise. Here is a video tutorial for YouTube (can't take credit for it, but it is very VERY inclusive!) I hope I didn't lose you! Thank you for reading, following, and sharing this. Happy integrating! Until next time, -Scott