Planning Your Blended Family’s Spring Break Vacation
When the winter chill just won’t let up, planning your blended family’s spring break vacation is a great excuse to let your mind wander to warmer thoughts. As exciting as a family vacation is, there are a few considerations to keep in mind when planning for a blended family. Striving [...]
Divorce: Handling your Financial Settlement
After a divorce, there are many “new normals” to adjust to, including a change in your financial status. When a financial settlement comes your way, you will need to know how to manage your funds to pay for your lifestyle in the short term and prepare for the future 10, [...]
How to Make Shared Holidays Fun for Kids
Let’s face it, the holidays are stressful. If you are a divorced parent, you may have the added pressure of trying to figure out how to share your children for the holidays, while making it fun and memorable for everyone. But know it can be done with a little planning [...]
Legal and Physical Custody in Minnesota – An Overview
The difference between legal and physical custody is important to understand and is often confused. Minnesota Statute section 518.003 defines “legal custody” as the right to determine the child’s upbringing, including education, health care, religious training and other important, long-term decisions regarding their child or children. There is often a [...]
Divorce and Investing
There are many changes that occur with divorce, especially in the realm of finances. The assets and income that was once available to a single household is now split, yet the total expenses are typically greater. For those who receive a financial settlement in their divorce, making wise choices on [...]
The 2018 Celebrity Breakup List is In
Every day, it seems there is a new A-list couple splitting up. But regardless of how rich and famous you are, no breakup is easy. Here is a list of 12 unlucky-in-love couples who know all too well how difficult a separation between the stars can be. […]
Calming the Storm: Tips for an Amicable Divorce
The media is abundant with horror stories about couples ending their marriages and dragging each other through the mud in the process. Fights over property, finances, kids, and pets are common; common and yet, unnecessary when a couple makes the rational decision to have an amicable divorce. […]
4 Steps to Secure Your Emotional Well-being During a Divorce
There is a reason divorce always ranks among the top two stressors. The only stressor that tops divorce is the death of a loved one. Divorce is a type of death itself. Like any death, survivors go through a grieving process. This emotionally-charged process requires individuals to take time out [...]
6 Tips for Getting Through a Divorce
Every divorce and circumstance is different, but one aspect is true for all couples: Divorce is difficult. Even when a marriage ends amicably, it is a significant change for you, your family, friends, and finances. To find your way to the other side of divorce is not an easy road, [...]
4 Basic Guidelines for Getting Along with Your Ex-spouse
Separation or divorce can breed resentment between ex-spouses. While you may feel that you are in a battle to establish who should suffer due to the breakup, both parties lose if they can’t find ways to get along. When there are kids involved, the situation can become even more toxic. [...]