Entries Tagged as ‘divorce’

June 27, 2009

Ten Ways to Screw up Your Divorce Case

After practicing family law for nearly 25 years, Lex has seen a full -range of behavior in divorce court. Probably the most disconcerting  is witnessing people that are  self -destructive. The following is a compilation of the ten ways people ruin their lives in divorce cases:
1. Self pity.   Buck up and deal with it.  When people get mired in self-pity– they lose [...]

January 28, 2008

The Parenting Trap

Divorce is a life event that invites many people to re-evaluate their lives.  During our day to day lives, we often lose sight of our priorities, instead questing  for professional or economic  success at the expense of meaningful relationships. And when people ignore these relationships in favor of external rewards, family breakup often follows. This notion is [...]

December 19, 2007

The Friendly Divorce

Lex Familia has been seeing many articles recently concerning the advent of collaborative divorce, which is a system designed to civilize the divorce process. In collaborative divorce, the parties and their lawyers agree to work out the issues, relying on joint professionals such as accountants and social workers, to help them  “collaborate” on reaching an agreement. In [...]