Personal Money Manager After Divorce

Money is a common point of contention between couples, but divorced or separated parents often face a greater level of conflict and disagreement when it comes to managing shared expenses.  With kids in the picture, shared family expenses are inevitable, so properly tracking expenses and reimbursements is necessary in order to maintain financial stability between homes.  Using a personal money manager after divorce is a helpful tool to keep co-parents on the same page in terms of joint finances.

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Personal Money Manager After Divorce

Today's Families are Resilient - not Broken

Families have changed a lot in the past 50 years or so. Today, less than half of American households contain a husband and a wife. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, approximately 40% of children in the U.S. have parents who are divorced. This shift in American family life has been widely lamented and criticized. Some have viewed this trend as representative of the “decline” of social morality, and a heralding of the demise of the American family. Although most American families do not meet the criteria of a “traditional” family, made up of a husband and a wife and their biological children, the remaining majority of “non-traditional” families continue to be stigmatized as somehow inferior to traditional families. Unfortunately, terms such as “broken home” imply broken families, broken parents, and broken kids.

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Communication Tools for Military Families

Communication Tools for Military Families 
Military families encounter challenges that are unique to other families, from dealing with one parent away due to deployment to re-adapting to home life with a full house.  These - among numerous related and various other reasons - are factors which sometimes lead to the dissolution of marriages within these families.  According to Military.com, rates of divorce in military families raised significantly in recent years, growing from 2.6 percent in 2001 to 3.7 percent in 2011.  These numbers have lowered since 2012, with the rate dropping to 3.5 percent, yet the fact still stands that there are many military families dealing with divorce.  If kids are in the picture, the question of how to effectively manage parenting between two homes becomes a big question for both parents.

How an Amicable Divorce is the First Step to Effective Co-Parenting

I have seen the same thing over and over again. As a divorce and custody attorney I am part of many different types of parenting situations. One particular type of divorce case has a very distinctive flavor. Those are the cases where the parenting’s fight over every inch of parenting rights, fight to the end of the case, and then periodically go back to court for the next decade. These types of cases are not rare, have predictable causes, and are always sad to see.
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How an Amicable Divorce is the First Step to Effective Co-Parenting