Today’s post comes from Joe Dillon, founder of Equitable Mediation Solutions. I’m a big fan of the model that Joe’s company provides to their clients and I hope to see more of these healthy divorce options in the future. Here’s Joe with some education about divorce mediation… *** When I was a kid I didn’t very much like amusement parks. While the brightly colored lights and the spinning machines looked nice, the thought of being buckled into some ride that I had no control over was not appealing to me in the least. I was quite content to sit there, […]
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Book: The Two Roads to Divorce
The Two Roads to Divorce was written by Lenard Marlow, who has assisted in the divorce process both as an attorney and a mediator. Experience taught him much, and, being familiar with both roads to divorce, he has done an excellent job communicating his knowledge to the reader. The book is written in the second-person narrative and reads almost like a series of short letters to a person embarking on the Journey of Divorce. The relatively short chapters begin with a title and an appropriate quote. Example: CHAPTER 3 WHOSE FAULT IS IT? Husbands and wives do not get divorced […]
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Angela was miserably married for more than a decade. She and Mac had it all: a presentable homestead, healthy offspring, comfortable cars, vacations, savings… you get the idea. But like I said, Angela was miserable. She spent years upon years losing sleep over the fact that she was pretending to be someone she wasn’t, living a life she found unbearable. Eventually, she couldn’t pretend any longer. She painfully told Mac that she just didn’t see any other way around it- she wanted a divorce.
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Last evening, I had the extreme pleasure of attending an “Evening of Support, Information and a Vision for Your Future” in Westport, CT. Featured speakers included Susan Filan (attorney/mediator), Jessica Bram (author: Happily Ever After Divorce: Notes of a Joyful Journey) and Lili Vasileff (divorce financial planner). They were joined by therapists Nancy Wergeles and Elizabeth Crossfield, who head up a local divorce support group. The room was full of people seeking resources to guide them in their journey. I thought the panel did a fabulous job explaining the differences between litigation and mediation, the need for financial planning as […]
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