If you ask Mark Askey, attorney and owner of a Divorce With Dignity business serving the Los Angeles area, what his work is all about, he’ll tell you that his job is to take some of the stress and anxiety about the divorce process off the shoulders...
Divorce With Dignity Blog: Navigating the Journey with Grace
Getting Through The Difficulties Of Divorce
Our Divorce With Dignity specialist in the San Francisco/Peninsula area, Cynthia Hall, is a California registered and bonded Legal Document Assistant with a Paralegal Certificate and a B.A. in Sociology. As someone who has worked with divorcing...
Divorce After 50
I recently ran across some surprising news – while divorce is declining in general (from a spike in the 1980s), the divorce rate for people over the age of 50 has more than doubled in the past two decades. In 1990, about 10% of all divorces were by...
How to Survive the Holidays Knowing We’re Getting a Divorce?
I know you’re feeling just terrible heading into the holidays knowing that you’re going to be getting a divorce sooner or later. What do you do knowing this? Is it better to just start the process now, or wait until after the holidays? These are...
Is Putting A Child’s Name On A Deed To Avoid Probate A Good Idea?
Part of going through a divorce is trying to figure out how to separate assets and property. When it comes to the family home, if the divorce agreement involves one of the parties taking ownership of the house, the deed must be changed. Some...
How to prepare for divorce?
When going through a divorce, it’s natural to feel alone and emotionally overwhelmed. You might feel the need to talk about what you are experiencing, but find that your friends and family members who have not gone through divorce just don’t...
Thank Goodness For Divorce With Dignity!
It used to be that whenever we heard about people getting a divorce, whether they were celebrities or people we knew, we almost always heard about the bitter struggles, the antagonistic court battles, and the vitriolic comments they made about...
Releasing Negative Emotions Of Divorce
In our previous blog post, we shared some insights from one of our referral associates, Keiko Hsu, on finding emotional support during divorce. Keiko is the founder of Wings for Women (www.wingsforwomen.net), an organization that focuses on...
Emotional Support During Divorce
Divorce With Dignity (dwdignity.com) is a divorce planning and facilitation service that takes a holistic approach to the divorce process. We understand that there is more to getting through a divorce than just the legal paperwork. As part of our...
Divorce Options: Limited Scope Representation
Did you know that you don’t have to choose between hiring a lawyer to handle everything in your divorce case, or going throught it without any legal advice? Hiring a lawyer to do it all for you can be quite expensive. But perhaps you just need some...
Cindy Elwell
Founder, Divorce With Dignity
I believe that we are much better off making our own decisions about our private lives, instead of leaving it in the hands of the legal system.