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Archive for July, 2008

What Happens to the Higher Education Degree Earned During the Marriage in a Divorce?

Work your fingers to the bone supporting the family while your spouse goes to school to eventually bring more bacon home to the family.
… Then get dumped when your spouse finally receives his or her sheepskin.
It’s a classic drama that plays out over and over again.
The exploited spouse views that degree as a commodity that […]

Financial Planning for Blended Families

After the divorce. Before the remarriage.
Second and subsequent marriages are more likely to fail than first marriages.
At the same time, each spouse in a second marriage is more likely to enter the union with assets, debts - and children.
Making things more complicated.
A prenup is the way to think through, negotiate and agree […]

Member: Ed Durda

BIO: “I live in Winter Springs, am going through a divorce and am looking to join a group for support and to make new friends.”

Multiple Deployments to Iraq Challenge Military Marriages and Kids

The war in Iraq has been putting a strain on soldiers’ marriages.
Over fifteen percent of all soldiers in Iraq plan to divorce their spouses. The rates are dramatically higher among those on subsequent deployments, in proportion to their number of deployments and the length of their tours of duty.
Impending departures, deployment after deployment. […]

New York Orders of Protection Extended to … Pekin Ducks

A Long Island Duck, of the Pekin variety - along with its owner, has been granted an order of protection by a Long Island court.
The order will remain in effect until 2016 - longer than many orders of protection protecting human victims of domestic violence.
The man under the order was also sentenced to […]

Japanese Family Law Throwback to Another Era

Japan may be a modern country technologically. But not legally, according to reports.
In approximately 80% of divorce and paternity cases in Japan, the father loses all parental rights, excluding the “right” to pay child support. In the remainder of cases, it is the mother who is stripped of her parental rights.
Visitation? That’s […]

Member: Mimi Weber

BIO: “my kids are grown didnt think I would need this group again but I am about to get custody of my 4 yr old grand daughter so here I go again “

Briton Publishes Divorce Settlement on Web to End Hostile Speculation

A wealthy British advertising executive and publisher, husband and father, divorced his wife.
And, according to him, the rumors started. He abandoned them, leaving them with nothing, and so on.
Rightly or wrongly, he believes he has been maligned, criticized, scorned … speculated about.
Yet he believes the settlement was generous, and resents the […]

Discussion: Meetup details changed: Children’s Movie Matinee

I’ve updated this Meetup. For more details, see the full listing:
http://singleparents….

When: July 27, 2008 3:30 PM

Where: Colonial Promenade 6
4672 E Colonial Dr
Orlando, FL 32803
(407)8888224

If th…

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Application. Divorce Final Judgment. Mortgage Application Package Complete.

Your divorce is finally final. Now you can move on with your life.
Maybe you’d like to start over with a new condo or house. You find the perfect place.
You begin working with a mortgage broker. In the course of your chit-chat, you mention you were just divorced.
Don’t be surprised when your mortgage […]