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...]

Here are some quick keys for how to find and hire a Collaborative attorney. In 2001, Texas passed the First Collaborative Law statute in the United States, then after the Collaborative Divorce Process evolved, in 2011, a much more extensive statute was passed.  Since the first Collaborative Law statute was passed in Texas in 2001, many other states and the Uniform Laws Commission of the … [Read more...]

Many, if not most, of the clients that I see for a divorce have a similar problem – Different Financial Philosophies From Their Spouse. The sad thing is, many of them do not recognize this until they are on the brink of or in the middle of divorce.  If they had, individually, and as a couple, sought out financial literacy and education to uncover what THEIR Financial Philosophy was BEFORE … [Read more...]

There are many reasons to opt for a Collaborative Divorce if you must divorce. One of the rarely considered reasons is how having a Collaborative Divorce will help you in a second or subsequent marriage.  I recently had lunch with someone who is contemplating remarrying, and that person said, “Why must it (a subsequent marriage) so complicated?”  They were talking about the … [Read more...]

For Corporate CEOs and other High-Ranking Corporate Executives, Privacy is usually their highest priority in their divorce for a number of reasons: If their deposition is taken or corporate records are subpeonaed, that could compromise their company secrets, intellectual property, and send panic through the company ranks that something is “coming down” that will adversely affect the company;If … [Read more...]

Recently, because of hearing how the death of Kobe Bryant is affecting a lot of people (some who didn’t even know him personally), Dr. Daniel Amen, a renown neuropsychiatrist, recently wrote an article about how grief can hijack our brain and send us into our primal fight or flight response, which renders us unable to process information effectively.  While a divorce doesn’t seem, on its … [Read more...]

January is Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month.  January is ending, but just because the month is ending, that’s no reason to go back to business as usual. Collaborative Divorce is trending nationwide, and, for that matter, around the world.  This week, Collaborative Divorce was featured on a morning news show in Connecticut. Jill Bicks, a Family Attorney with Pullman & Comley, … [Read more...]

January is Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month. I vividly remember the day that I walked into my grandparents’ kitchen and heard them talking about divorce being their only option.  I ran out into the yard and cried, not really knowing, as a five-year-old child, what divorce was, but knowing that it was bad.  I knew that, while my young parents worked each day, these two … [Read more...]