Most of us learned about money management from our parents – whether they intended for us to learn from them or not. In a previous blog entitled, “Your (and Your Spouse’s) Financial Philosophy May Determine Whether You Get a Divorce,” I talked how different financial philosophies (and sometimes the lack of any financial philosophy) can cause a divorce.  But when you think about it, all of … [Read more...]

Most of us don’t think about having incontinence until we are older and even then we hope that won’t be something we suffer from. I heard the word “incontinence” used in a new and quite accurate context today.  I was reading one of the news advice columns today, this one by Carolyn Hax with the Washington Post, and she used the term “emotional incontinence” for someone who couldn’t control … [Read more...]

Living in the same house can be difficult, but especially during the Coronavirus Being married or living in the same house with anyone can be difficult, especially when there is no break.  Even the happiest of families are happier and functioning at their best when they have a little break from each other.  But during the Coronavirus time, we are all just lucky to be healthy and … [Read more...]

Liz Weston, a Certified Financial Planner and regular national columnist on financial issues, called *“Five Financial Tasks You should Tackle By Year-End,” at the end of 2019. As we are all considering what we need to do in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, her article takes on new and more urgent wisdom.  I am going over those tasks she discusses in a bit of different order in this … [Read more...]

Magan Ranney, MD MPH, is a practicing emergency physician and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice. She has been a regular guest on MSNBC during the Coronavirus crisis.  She is always a pleasant guest because, somehow, despite being in the trenches of this everyday and just today finding out, on the air, that one of her ER … [Read more...]

In Texas, unlike some places in the country where there are “hot spots” of the Coronavirus, not many of us yet have someone that we are directly connected to that has died. I just found out that the sister of a distant relative in New Jersey has just died from Coronavirus and that my son’s roommate in Boston has tested positive for it.  I hope this doesn’t come like a wave to Texas, but … [Read more...]

New Orders from the Texas Supreme Court and Denton County District Judges I have been receiving many calls from clients and families about what the effect Coronavirus has on their Parenting Time/Possession Orders. We got an answer about the Spring Break Question, but now what about weekend and Thursday night (typical in Standard Possession Orders) possession periods? The Supreme Court of … [Read more...]

What should you say to your children about the Coronavirus? I have been pondering how to address this issue in my blogs this week. Alan Woldfeldt, Ph.D., C.T. is an internationally noted author, educator and grief counselor.  He serves as Director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition and is on the faculty at the University of Colorado Medical School’s Department of Family … [Read more...]

The first question I got from clients when the children’s schools were being closed because of the Coronavirus was, “What happens when Spring Break is extended by my child’s school?” We are definitely in uncharted territory this Spring Break 2020.  Most Texas Divorce Decrees state that one parent will have parenting time possession for their child’s Spring Break and return the child at the … [Read more...]

Many of my colleagues immediately flooded the airwaves with Coronovirus Statements. I was actually out of the state last week teaching a Collaborative Divorce Training with my husband when the dominoes began to fall on this crisis.  Up to that point, it still seemed somewhat distant.  But by the time we returned home, it was very much a part of all of our immediate world and … [Read more...]