Helping Northern Westchester Families
Dec 5, 2017BY: Meg Sussman
IN: Children and Divorce
One of the most frequent questions I get asked as a psychologist, both in my work as a collaborative team member and as a therapist, is how to talk to children about divorce. While there is no simple straightforward answer to the question, there are a few basic rules that parents can follow. One is […]
Nov 15, 2017BY: MaryEllen Linnehan
IN: Collaborative Law
You’ve made the difficult, complicated, often painful decision to divorce. The question now is how you will move forward: how you will protect your children, ensure financial stability for you and your family, and preserve important relationships. How will you work through the emotional, legal and financial decisions? Importantly, how will you structure your divorce […]
Oct 3, 2017BY: Amy Carron Day
IN: Collaborative Law
Almost every new client tends to ask the same question in the initial call and meeting, and the answer tends to be quite confusing for lay-people to understand: What kind of agreement do I want at the end of my collaborative divorce process? The answer is: it depends upon what you want to accomplish! To […]
Sep 18, 2017BY: Melissa Goodstein
IN: Dealing with Divorce
Step 1: Work with your spouse and not against your spouse. Your relationship as husband and wife may be ending however you both created this family and if you have children you will need to work together as co parents; Step 2: Select a process such as either mediation or collaborative divorce to negotiate the […]
Sep 6, 2017BY: Ken Novenstern
IN: Collaborative Law
My wife told me she was considering a divorce on 7/31/09 (for ease of reference I will refer to her as my wife, although she is now my former wife). I was devastated. I knew what a divorce entailed and was filled with dread. I could not comprehend a life outside of my marriage, without […]
Aug 14, 2017BY: Margaretha L. Gravett
IN: Dealing with Divorce
For most people, choosing a divorce lawyer is a daunting task. You are about to embark on an unfamiliar and treacherous journey, and, to make things worse, you have to do this while you are in the grip of extreme emotional turmoil. Guiding you through this traumatic life experience should be a lawyer whom […]
Jun 22, 2017BY: Anthony C. Markus
IN: Communication in Divorce
On June 8, 2017, former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Many of the senators’ questions addressed the communications between the President and Director Comey regarding the investigation into former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn. Senator James Risch asked Director Comey the following: “I – I want to drill […]
Jun 12, 2017BY: Jeff Zimmerman
IN: Dealing with Divorce
Whether you’re initiating divorce, it’s being initiated by your partner, or it’s a mutual decision, it comes with a whole host of feelings including anger, anxiety, sadness, and guilt. Guilt can be profound, and can impact our relationship with our children, our ex spouse, and even ourselves. Guilt can weave its way into our psyches […]
Jun 12, 2017BY: Andrew Samalin
IN: Divorce and Money
George Carlin said that a house is a just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff. But we know that a house is more than where we keep our stuff. It’s where we raise our families and bring people in our lives together. In the context of […]
Jun 1, 2017BY: Meg Sussman
IN: Collaborative Law,Dealing with Divorce
Lately I have been thinking about how people decide to divorce. As anyone who has gone through a divorce will tell you, it is one of the hardest, if not the hardest decision a person makes. The collaborative divorce team starts with an understanding that the history leading up to, and the decision to divorce, […]