S2:15: Negotiating a Healthy Future
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Divorce affects the design of a family. How do you negotiate now to avoid complications and ease tensions down the road, especially when it comes to a new step or blended family? This episode will help you figure out how to do just that.
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S2:14: How Your Child Really Feels
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Being attuned to your child is critical to helping them bounce back from divorce. Learn how to give your child the support and tools they need to thrive during divorce and beyond.
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S2:13: Being Your Best Self Through Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
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S2:12: Divorce Without Court
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Find out why "getting your day in court" may not bring justice in the end. This episode will help to clear up misconceptions about divorce court. Learn how divorce mediation can give you more control over the process and pave the way for healing. This episode will explain why divorce court rulings can be unpredictable and what you could expect, why divorce court isn't the place to seek vindication and place blame, and how divorce mediation makes you the final decision-maker, not a judge. Key Points: - Judges are human. They're often overworked and can make arbitrary decisions. Find out...
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S2:10: Being Resilient Through Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Feel like you'll never bounce back from your divorce? Listen as Pamela Elaine Nichols, divorced mom, author & speaker, shares how she turned her pain into purpose. Learn how you can apply her life lessons to cope, heal and thrive despite divorce. This episode will discuss how you can overcome the pain of divorce, what skills you need to regain hope and perspective after divorce, and how to create your own divorce resilience plan. Key Points: - Resilient people are not naturally immune to stress and depression. They've learned tangible skills that help them successfully manage life's...
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S2:9: Creating Parenting Plans that Work
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
As a loving parent, you worry about your children's well-being during divorce. Learn how to create a parenting plan that will give them the consistency they need and minimize conflict with your ex-partner. Listen to learn what exactly a parenting plan is, how a plan can help you work with your ex-partner, and when co-parent counseling can help. Key Points : - Learn how to create a legally-binding document that defines what is most important to you as a parent - everything from household rules to medical needs. - Hear how the process of developing a parenting plan can put you both...
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S2:11: Making the Holidays Happier
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Concerned about how to handle the holidays as a divorcing parent?The holidays are stressful, even for the best intentioned parents. Listen to how both a divorced mom and dad bounced back and made it work. This episode will help you to manage powerful emotions that arise during the holidays. Even if your family has had time to process the divorce, the first holiday season is likely to be difficult as you grieve old traditions and memories. Use this episode to discover how to cope in a healthy way.
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S2:8: Making Your Move
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Separation is often the start of the divorce conversation. Who should go? Who should stay? Will I lose rights if I move out? Hear from a panel of experts so you can part ways in both of your best interests. This episode will share what you should know about legal rights before you move out, what temporary living arrangements work, how to decide whether to keep or sell the house, and some ways to sell your house quickly.
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S2:7: Paying for College After Divorce
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
"Who will pay for college?" Financing your child's education is confusing on its own, and divorce adds another layer of complexity. Learn how divorce affects financial aid, costly mistakes to avoid, and what you need in your divorce settlement agreement to make college affordable. Listen to hear how colleges calculate what you are expected to pay, when 529 plans are helpful, what types of financial aid are available, and how to structure your divorce agreement to pay for less college.
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S2:6: Negotiating with Power
The Healthy Divorce Podcast
Negotiating financial terms is one of the most stressful parts of a divorce settlement. Understand your "money story" so you don't get angry - or get taken. This episode will help you learn why money is such a hot button in a divorce, define your money story and set yourself on course to reach agreement, work out a fair divorce settlement with a new mindset, and transform your relationship to money following divorce.
info_outlineDivorce affects the design of a family. How do you negotiate now to avoid complications and ease tensions down the road, especially when it comes to a new step or blended family? This episode will help you figure out how to do just that.
Key Points:
- Take a peak into the future to see what life after divorce looks like for many people
- Better understand the difference between "blended" and "step" family
- Consider how the financial terms you create NOW play out LATER - especially when someone re-marries.
- Tips to create a mindfully-constructed agreement and parenting plan.
Sponsored by Main Line Family Law Center
For more information, please visit: Main Line Family Law Center at https://myhealthydivorce.com
Episode Host, Adina Laver, Founder, Courage to Be Curious, (formerly Divorce Essentials)
Find Adina Laver at: https://couragetobecurious.com
Guest: Dr. Margorie Engel
About Margorie: Margorie Engel, MA, MBA, PhD, is an author, speaker, and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Dr. Engel’s specific areas of expertise are in family finance, law, and social policy.
A past president of the Stepfamily Association of America, she is a founding member of the National Stepfamily Resource Center at Auburn University and its Stepfamily Expert Council. Dr. Engel also participates in projects of The Uniform Law Commission that provides states with non-partisan, well conceived, and well drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law. She is currently observing the work of the Drafting Committee on Non-Parental Rights to Child Custody and Visitation.
A member of a stepfamily for 30 years, she has five daughters (combination of bios and steps), five sons-in-law, 16 grandchildren, and one great-grandson – giving a large stepfamily age-range from one month to 76 years.
Their daughters were all teenagers when Stephen and Margorie were married and - everyone has survived!