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How To Avoid Court and Divorce Lawyers

belindaesq — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:43:04 -0500

How To Mend a Broken Heart

bambam — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:25:38 -0600

Don't worry or analyze why your heart got broken. There is no use crying over spilt milk. Stuff happens, and then we learn to breathe again! Move on and focus on your own healing. Whatever you focus on, you will attract into your life. Whatever has access to your mind will eventually have access to your life. Besides, if you don't learn to deal with your emotions, they will deal with you. They will control your moods, actions, habits, mentality, mind-set (your way of thinking) and well-being. To mend your broken heart, you need to learn some coping skills. A coping skill is a behavioral tool for overcoming your pain, regardless of what caused it. Here are my top ten tips for your emotional healing....

How To Confront a Cheating Spouse

Vanessa264 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:10:18 -0500

There is really only one golden rule when it comes to confronting a cheating spouse. And that is……no violence. Here are a few other tips on how to confront a cheating spouse.

How To Recognize the Signs of Cheating Men

Vanessa264 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:58:29 -0500

Is it all men…or only some? And most important, what about yours? Here are some tips to help you recognize the signs of cheating men:

How To Survive the Aftermath of Divorce

Vanessa264 — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:15:00 -0500

Chances are that your divorce has lasted a year or more and has been full of tension and drama. It's all over now and you're awaiting that giant sigh of relief that you've been expecting. But wait, instead of relief, you feel.........like a wreck. Don't be surprised: Feeling unhinged following your divorce is simply a natural and expected part of the divorce process.

Remember that you've been coping with a lot this last year-mountains of paperwork, regular calls and meetings with your lawyer, sometimes challenging interaction with your ex, and a distressed child for whom you've been holding it all together. All this on top of the usual stresses of everyday life, and let's not forget that all-important job! Even if you've been taking your B vitamins regularly, all this stress has been adding up. Now.....it's payback time. Here are a few tips to help you better cope with the emotional aftermath of divorce.

How To Understand Child Custody Laws

Malcolm161 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:09:00 -0600

Perhaps one of the hardest things to deal with at the end of a marriage is the impact that the divorce will have on the children. Even under the best of circumstances, there will be the need for both the custodial and non-custodial parent to understand the nature of their continuing responsibilities to any children they share. While it maybe very easy to grasp the ethical responsibility they continue to share in regard to the well being of the children, the task of understanding the applicable child custody laws and the legal conditions that are now part of the picture may be more difficult. Here are a few tips to help you get information that will help you unravel the mystery of child custody laws.

How To Throw a Divorce Party

Malcolm161 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:05:00 -0600

While a divorce is often an event that is filled with a lot of hurt and remorse, the fact is that some people experience a great deal of relief that a bad situation is now behind them. In cases like this, the only logical thing to do is throw a divorce party. Here are a few things to think about should the need arise to pull together a divorce party for yourself or a friend.

The great thing about a divorce party is there are not a lot of traditions that one has to observe. You can make the party into anything that you want it to be. For example, you can have a beautiful seven-course sit-down affair followed with drinks and a piano in the background. Or you may want to go with balloons, confetti, a buffet loaded with foods that taste great and are bad for you, accompanied with the loudest and most lively music you can find. It's your party and it can have any tone you want it to have.

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How To Find Divorce Support Groups

Malcolm161 — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:56:00 -0600

When you've gone through the end of a marriage, chances are you will need help to mourn what could have been and start putting together a new life for yourself. While your family and close friends will be there to help you through this rough spot, they will only be able to do so much for you. Much of what you are feeling and dealing with is not something they have first-hand knowledge about. What you need is a divorce support group.

Even if you live in a small town, chances are there is at least one divorce support group in the area. Here are a few tips to help you located any of the groups that may be within a reasonable distance of your home.

How To Deflect Questions About Your Divorce

Vanessa264 — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:18:00 -0600

Divorce is a wonderful way to discover your true friends. These will be the ones letting you run the emotional gamut from a to z and back again in sixty-second spans as they watch without batting an eyelash. These will be the people who remain utterly convinced of your fundamental soundness and emotional resilience even when you're not so sure yourself.

Divorce is a wrenching time, a time that you need all the extra support you can get. I hope you have a friend like this, because a friend like this will talk you through many of your worst divorce experiences simply by reminding you of who you really are. But if you don't, I'll share with you here what a friend like this might say about how to answer questions you're likely to encounter as you navigate your way through your divorce.

How To Understand Father Visitation Rights

Malcolm161 — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:59:00 -0600

If you are a non-custodial father, you no doubt find yourself bewildered with what can be a convoluted and often unclear situation. Knowing exactly what rights you have under the law can be a daunting task. To help you gather data that is relevant to your situation, here are a few ideas on just how to understand visitation rights.

One of the first things to understand is that the foundational document governing the process of visitation is the court ruling itself. Often, that is where your minimum rights of visitation will be spelled out, including any particular conditions relating to when you may begin a visit and when the visit is to end. Depending on the relationship that you cultivate with your former spouse, you may be able to work out more frequent visitation, but keep in mind those extras are not guaranteed and take place only because of the willingness of the custodial parent.

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