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Making Divorce Work:  8 Essential Keys to Resolving Conflict and Rebuilding Your Life (Penguin/Perigee 2010) excerpts The 8 Keys to Resolving Family Conflict: 1. Be hard on the problem, not the people. 2. Understand that acknowledging and listening are not the same as obeying. 3. Use…

I was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2005. I started handling family law matters in 2007. At the time, I was an associate handling commercial matters when the family law associate at the firm went out on maternity leave. I offered to help out…

Your estate plan is much more likely to be successful when you recognize and avoid the most common mistakes and take some key actions that often are overlooked. Most estate planners will tell you that the same estate planning mistakes and oversights recur with frequency,…

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Many families have experienced increased conflict during the pandemic, and this is normal under the circumstances. It’s challenging to get everyone on the same page when there have been major changes, stress levels are high, and there seems to be conflicting…

According to Kacey Musgraves, if you would have told her on Grammys night 2019—the night that her album Golden Hour won Album of the Year—that she would be divorced from husband Ruston Kelly, the man she credited for making Golden Hour happen, by 2020, she would have said, “Fuck off. No. No…

When Bill and Melinda Gates announced their marital split last month, the immediate question was what would happen to the Gates Foundation? The message was clear: the couple are divorcing, but their charitable foundation, which has distributed $55bn since its launch in 2000, and their…

In the practice of family law, child custody and parental visitation arrangements are some of the most complex and challenging aspects of the divorce litigation process. Attorneys and parents alike want to achieve the best possible outcomes in these arrangements, as the decisions can affect…