People don’t often associate the word “amicable” with divorce, but we are hearing about amicable divorces in the news quite a lot these days. Some examples of celebrities who have managed to divorce without rancor and drama are Ashlee Simpson &...
Making The Divorce Decision
Divorce is a scary and overwhelming thing. Sometimes people know they are unhappy in their marriage, but have trouble deciding what to do about it. Should they stick with the “known”, or jump into the unknown territory of divorce? How does one go...
Courteney Cox & David Arquette: Modeling Amiable Divorce
Courteney Cox and David Arquette are showing Hollywood (and the rest of us) how it’s done. In a society where divorce is often bitter and antagonistic, they are modeling how to achieve an amiable divorce that is so much better for the entire...
Divorce Through The Eyes Of Children
When children are involved, a divorce is not just between the two spouses; it becomes a “family divorce”. They have to cope with a lot of new feelings and concerns, and with big changes in their day-to-day lives. Seeing divorce through the eyes of...
Murdoch Divorce – Amicable Divorce With Dignity
Last month one of the big news items about the rich and famous was the divorce of business magnate Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch. After 14 years of marriage, they decided to call it quits, stating that their relationship had...
Reducing The Stress And Anxiety Of Divorce
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...
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...
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...