Author Archives: Jay Butchko
Should You Buy Duplicates Of Children’s Belongings For Successful Co-Parenting?
Having to move constantly between two parents’ houses is stressful for children; at worst, it can make them feel like nowhere is really their home, as much as their parents might insist otherwise. At worst, it can turn into the parents competing with each other to create a home environment that is superficially more… Read More »
Coping With Curveball Divorce
Whether it is a gray divorce, a high net worth divorce, or a cutesy conscious uncoupling that seems staged for social media, divorce is profoundly unpleasant. People who are at their wits’ end with their marriages and long to be legally single wish that they could fast forward through the part where you have… Read More »
After Divorce, You Can Implement The Lessons You Did Not Learn Until It Was Too Late To Save Your Marriage
If you know divorced couples who seem to get along so well that you wonder why they did not stay married to each other, it is not just your imagination. Some people do get along well with their former spouses and the relatives of their former spouses. To understand why, consider the old saying… Read More »
The Hardest Parts Of Divorce
Even before the days of Instagram and Tik Tok, there were lifestyle bloggers who made it sound like divorce was awesome, and that the only emotions they felt during a divorce were relief about getting out of a bad marriage and excitement about the future. Some of the bloggers who sound the most convincing… Read More »
It Is Not Marital Misconduct If Your Ex’s Plans To Get Rich Didn’t Work Out
Nothing destroys trust in marriages like when one spouse lies to the other. Sometimes lies about money can feel even more like a betrayal than carrying on secret conversations with an opposite sex friend, or even behavior that fits everyone’s definition of cheating. Lying is not simply stating something that is not true; the… Read More »
The Importance Of Accurate Financial Disclosures In Divorce Cases
Some divorce cases are simpler than others; if you are worried that divorce will lead to a trial where mutual friends of the couple testify against one spouse or the other, your fears are probably unfounded. Most couples reach an agreement during divorce mediation about how to divide their marital property and, if they… Read More »