The Tale of the Land Turtle and the Sea Turtle — How to Explain Divorce to Young Children

Christine Amour-Levar   –Social Entrepreneur, Marketing Consultant & Author Children often suffer pain, confusion and insecurity when their parents separate. In some cases they even blame themselves, or feel that somehow it’s their fault their parents no longer want to be together. Many children secretly harbor fantasies — sometimes for years — that their parents…

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Our Firm Donates Their Book “Divorce in New Mexico” To 45 Libraries Across the State

  45 libraries across the state of New Mexico received copies of Divorce in New Mexico, a practical guide to the divorce process, as a donation from the attorneys/authors Sandra Morgan Little, Jan Gilman-Tepper, and Roberta Batley.  They recognized the importance of making their book available to all New Mexico residents as a helpful resource.…

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Is Holding On To My Marital House Really Worth It?

by Donna Ranieri – Divorce Lending Specialist . Many of my clients are divorcing spouses, and I have often found one of their biggest concerns is having to move out of their home. I really wonder at times why some people fight so hard to keep their marital home. Sometimes I worry that their motive to…

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9 Movies To Get You Through The Dark Days After Divorce

Divorce can be an isolating experience. Especially when those around you haven’t been through it themselves. They can try to comfort you and say the right things, but sometimes you need someone who knows what it’s like. Someone who’s been through it. Someone like my old pal Holly…wood. There’s a movie out there for everyone.…

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ABA London Sessions and the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta

Sandra Morgan Little just returned from the ABA London Sessions and the commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215 at Runnymede. The American Bar Association has a memorial at Runnymede, first dedicated by Queen Elizabeth in 1957, and was rededicated on the day of the anniversary June 15,…

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What Happens to My Inheritance in a Divorce?

The simple answer is the inheritance belongs to the person who inherits it.  It is their separate property.  However, as with most things, this question is not as simple as it may seem. Often inheritance comes in one form, say money, and is later used to purchase something else.  Or, sometimes, it comes in the…

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Using a Pre-Nup to Improve Your Chances of Marriage Success

This article was featured on the IACP (the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals) website and is recommended by Sandra Morgan Little of Little, Gilman-Tepper & Batley, P.A.   by Dennis S. Lerner -Practices collaborative marriage and family law in Syracuse, New York In my years of practice as a matrimonial lawyer, I have twice been called…

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Supreme Court Decision June 25, 2015

  Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges.  I have asked Michigan AAML Fellow Ric Roane, who created and chaired the AAML LGBT Committee and served as the Academy’s official observer at the Court – where he witnessed the oral arguments firsthand – to help prepare this blog…

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22 Books Everyone Should Read During Divorce

There’s nothing like finding escape in a good book — and that’s especially true when going through a separation or divorce. (There’s only so much crying into crumpled Kleenex you can do; at some point, you need to give yourself a mental break.) To that end, we recently asked HuffPost Divorce bloggers and readers to…

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