What is the glue that keeps marriage together? For the lucky ones it’s a lasting and deep love built over decades of living together through good times and bad and coming out the other side with a mutual respect and affection for each other and an enjoyment of each others company. For others, it’s a religious or cultural belief that [...]

PLAN FREE MUM’S TOP TIPS FOR COPING WITH DIVORCE 1.    TALK – Try and find people to talk to. If you have no close friends or family whom you feel understand join an online forum. This is group therapy at its best. You can be completely honest and open because you can be anonymous and you will be talking to [...]

One of the hot topics over at our relationship forum is about how much it costs to get a divorce. Most people who are going through a legal separation for the first time have no idea of the levels of cost, even though we may have heard horror stories about lawyers fees in divorces. the trouble with giving guidance in a [...]

A question from a colleague this week prompted me to do some research on property and how it is divided in a divorce. She had a friend who is facing pretty extreme demands from her ex-partner regarding two properties that they had owned together while they were married. Looking into how the law treats property, one of the most important [...]

Although divorce is never something to take lightly, record divorce settlements make regular headlines in our national papers and gossip magazines. It seems that we like to read about the payouts from the rich and famous to their spouses and to get a glimpse at the real size of their bank accounts. There is also a lot of debate in [...]

Anyone who is facing a divorce or seperation will know that finance is an important issue. Far many couples it can become the dominant issue, particularly if one partner uses access to finance as a means to punish another. While this is unfair it is quite common and it is something that features regularly in our relationship forum. The best [...]

Not everyone agrees with them, but there is no doubt that a quickie divorce saves a lot of pain for those involved. Some people seem to believe that making a divorce a tough thing to obtain is the right option for society, but for those in the middle of the upheaval, the quicker the better. Good information of quickie divorces [...]

The number of divorce cases is increasing every year and this is particularly true in the US, the UK and Australia. If you want to search the divorce records online it is important to know where to look. In the US, where state and county boundaries mean that records are not in one place, knowing the correct search procedure is [...]

When looking at how to get a divorce there are two things to consider. the first is how do you qualify for a divorce and the second thing is how do you go about it. The rules vary by country and they are considerably more complex in some areas than others. I recently found this simple guide to divorce in [...]

Choosing a divorce lawyer can be tricky – at  a time of high stress you are forced to make a quick decision. It is something that you will probably only do once and you will probably be under some time pressure. Unless you know someone who is a family lawyer how do you select the right person/ here is some [...]