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Sometimes a good divorce is better than a bad marriage.
How to Protect Yourself Before, During, and After Separation
Separation is one of the most stressful and life-altering experiences a person can go through. Beyond the emotional toll, there are serious legal and financial implications that can have long-lasting effects if not handled properly.
By Mike Smithabout 5 hours ago in Families
A Couple Who Didn’t Know Where to Start With Divorce
The morning we finally admitted it was over, I was standing in the kitchen making toast. Not even proper breakfast, just toast, because neither of us had been to the supermarket in two weeks. Mark was sitting at the table with his phone face-down in front of him, which he'd started doing a lot, and I remember thinking: we can't even fight about this. We're too tired to fight.
By Family Law Serviceabout 6 hours ago in Families
They Trusted Each Other but Still Chose a Consent Order
People kept telling us we were doing it the right way. "Amicable," they'd say, nodding like it was some rare achievement. And I suppose it was. After eighteen years together, fourteen of them married, David and I had somehow managed to come apart without the kind of warfare that other people described. No screaming rows in the kitchen. No solicitor's letters that made my stomach drop when I found them on the mat. We'd sat at the dining room table, the same table where we'd eaten a thousand dinners with the kids, and we'd talked. Calmly. Honestly. With a pot of tea between us.
By Jess Knaufabout 6 hours ago in Families
Marriage
How Losing Everything Revealed What We Actually Had THE MORNING WE LOST IT ALL 📉 The phone call came at 7:43 AM on a Wednesday morning while my husband Robert and I were eating breakfast with our two children who were arguing about whose turn it was to use the iPad, and the normalcy of this scene, the cereal bowls and the sibling bickering and the coffee growing cold while I refereed, made what followed feel like it was happening to someone else in a movie I was watching rather than in my actual kitchen in my actual life, because Robert's business partner called to inform him that their construction company was insolvent, that the bank was calling their loans immediately, that their largest client had filed a lawsuit for breach of contract, and that the personal guarantees Robert had signed on the business loans meant that our family was liable for approximately 1.7 million dollars in debt that the company could not pay, and in the approximately four minutes of that phone call our financial life which had been comfortable and secure and built on fifteen years of hard work and careful planning collapsed into a crater so deep that climbing out seemed not just difficult but genuinely impossible 📞😰
By The Curious Writer3 days ago in Families
Why Good Intentions Make a Bad Legal Standard
Why Law Reaches for Intent in the First Place Legal systems lean toward intent because it feels humane. Motive appears to reveal character, and character feels like a stable guide for judgment. In emotionally charged domains like parenting and custody, intent offers something comforting: the belief that outcomes can be understood, and even forgiven, by examining what someone meant to do. Courts frequently ask whether a parent acted out of love, fear, confusion, or malice, as though the answer to that question can reliably predict what the child will experience over time.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast6 days ago in Families
A Parent Who Didn’t Know What to Expect From a CAFCASS Call
I kept checking my phone even when it wasn't ringing. That particular kind of anxiety, the one that makes you pick up your mobile mid-sentence while someone's talking to you, the one that made me sleep badly for a week, was all because of one scheduled call from a CAFCASS officer.
By Family Law Service8 days ago in Families
Is It Normal to Feel Emotional After an Abortion?. AI-Generated.
A Quiet Truth Many People Don’t Talk About Abortion is often discussed in terms of physical recovery, timelines, and medical details — but far fewer conversations acknowledge the emotional experience that can follow. For many, the emotional part is the most unexpected.
By Eve Surgical Center14 days ago in Families
Should You Leave Your Emotionally Unavailable Spouse?
This Reddit post gave me pause. First of all because the OP is a stay at home mom (Didn’t know those really existed anymore.) And also, because she laments that it is hard to be married to a slightly self-centered roommate rather than a husband or partner.
By Marie Dubuque14 days ago in Families
Beloved
Flowers cascade down the aisles of a quiet church, the pews filled with friends and loves ones. At the alter stand the largest of the arrangements, fragrant flowers wafting their perfume, through the chapel, certain to create and evoke scent memories in future recollections of this day. The parishioners file in and will soon file out, with whispers of, “It was a beautiful service,” “The flowers were so lovely,” and “I’m sorry for their loss. His passing was long in coming, but so sudden.”
By Alexandra Grant15 days ago in Families
