The involvement of a forensic accountant in a marital dissolution can be a necessary and useful tool. We frequently utilize forensic accountants on our cases to determine a party’s cash flow for purposes of support, to value business interests, to assist on complex...
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How Much Will My Divorce Cost?
It is impossible to determine from the onset how much your divorce will ultimately cost. However, a few factors to consider will be the complexity of the issues to be determined and the level of the cooperation between the parties and the attorneys. Any divorce will...
Rebuilding Social Ties After Your California Divorce
Whether you’ve been married for three years or 30 years, your California separation (and impending divorce) will likely have dramatic implications for your social circle. One of the great indicators for health, wellness and prosperity is the strength and scope of your...
Is Timing Everything When Getting Divorced With Kids?
If you’re confused about whether to get divorced — and you’re hesitating because you don’t want to hurt your kids or you’re just confused about what the right decision is spiritually, financially or emotionally — here is a pretty interesting “hack” to gauge your gut...
What Are the Concerns of Getting Divorced If You Have Kids?
As you ponder the effects of a potential divorce on your children, you would like to be able to predict what life would be like in the future, depending on what decision you make. Obviously, in an ideal world, you would like to be able to run an experiment and watch...
Is there a Good Time to Get Divorced If You Have Kids?
Parents today constantly stress about how their actions will impact their children. But they are often sadly oblivious to how their children impact their own emotional, physical and mental states. As author Jennifer Senior argues in her new book, “All Joy And No Fun,”...
Should Having Kids Effect The Timing of Your Divorce?
How should you time your divorce to do the least damage to your children? Research on this subject is pretty scrambled. Part of the problem is that, to study marriage and divorce, researchers cannot conduct the gold standard of scientific experiments – double blind,...
How to Handle Your California Divorce, If You Are Sick – Part 3
One of the dangers of going through a divorce while you’re trying ride out a sickness or injury is that you might feel helpless and fail to meet needs for control and autonomy. Even if you can “outthink” your problems and find people to meet your crucial needs in the...
Why Some Couples Make It and Some Don’t – Part III
Tabloids and blogs often publish eye-grabbing headlines like “Top 10 Reasons Men in California Get Divorced” or “3 Things Men Who Succeed in Child Custody Battles Have in Common.” When you see such stories, take them with a grain of salt. Often, they flow from a...
Why Some Couples Make It and Some Don’t – Part I
Decades ago, a famous social psychologist in Missouri conducted an experiment that would change the way researchers thought about divorce forever. The researcher took random people off the street and asked these people to observe couples through a one-way glass...