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What to Do About the Addicted Professional Spouse?

The pressure that many highly trained professionals feel, including physicians, financial professionals, lawyers, business executives and other highly compensated individuals can lead to alcohol, marijuana or drug addictions. Sexual addictions in the… Read More
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What is Fault and How Does it Impact your Divorce?

All the 50 states now have no fault divorce. What does that mean? It means that in order to get a divorce, that you do not have to prove that one party to the marriage engaged in bad behavior and the other was innocent, in order to get a divorce. How… Read More
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Coping with Domestic Violence

An incident of domestic violence may be the last straw that a spouse needs to leave a marriage. Sometimes the tension of the marriage becoming toxic results in spouses exchanging many barbs. Or perhaps one spouse really needs to feel in control and b… Read More
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Leaving an Abusive Marriage

Leaving an abusive relationship is never easy. There are lots of reasons to stay. Your spouse is probably not always difficult and abusive. The nice periods give you hope that things will improve. Your spouse was probably very charming at the outset… Read More
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What If I Have Been Unfaithful During the Marriage

All states in the United States have adopted no fault divorce. This means that even if you were the “guilty party,” meaning that you engaged in some bad conduct during the marriage, you can still file for divorce. Some clients are concern… Read More
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How to Have a Successful Divorce When One Partner Cheats

Nothing quite matches the level of betrayal one spouse feels when she finds out that her husband has been cheating on her. Recently, we have witnessed the break-up of the Schwartzenneger-Schriver marriage over Arnold’s reported over-a-decade long a… Read More
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Using Electronics to Keep Track of a Spouse

Even when I tell my clients that Michigan is a no fault divorce state, they often want validation of their suspicions about their spouse’s fault behavior. It can be tempting to use some of the many electronic tools that are available. Before you do… Read More
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Does Fault Behavior Impact a Mediated or Collaborative Practice Case?

Many people know at the beginning of their divorce that they do not wish to resort to judicial decision-making or litigation. The want to use mediation or collaborative practice to resolve their family disputes. In such cases, does fault still matter… Read More
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