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How to Be Smart About Mediation
Understanding what mediation is as a process, and finding the right mediator, are critical elements to developing smart and long lasting parenting and financial agreements that are predicated on informed, thoughtful decision making. A good mediator will discuss what your goals are for the process, what is important to each of you and will help you to craft a plan that addresses those goals and intentions. This is important to understand, as all mediators are not created equal!
Our guest, Cara Raich, (http://www.srmediators.com/mediators/cara-raich-esq/) (http://mediatetrix.wordpress.com/) explores the specifics of mediation in this episode of The Smart Divorce, with Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck. Cara is a mediator and attorney who specializes in helping people find non-adversarial resolutions to conflict. She mediates a wide range of cases including divorce, family conflicts, and organizational and civil disputes.
Cara is dedicated to helping her clients avoid the challenges and acrimony that frequently accompany adversarial proceedings. She does this by enabling her clients to come to realistic and informed agreements that work for them and their families. Cara believes that separation and divorce are family matters with a legal element, not a lawsuit that happens to be about a family.
To understand how these goals are accomplished in a fair and reasonable manner – and gain perspectives on alternative ways to view mediation and settlement we discuss:
- What does neutrality really mean?
- What are the process choices that people have when contemplating divorce?
- How do we as a society view divorce?
- What is a successful divorce?
- What is the role the law will play in your divorce? Is the law relevant, determinative or something in between?
This interview will surely help you understand the many aspects of mediation.
To listen, click on the link http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/be-smart-about-mediation/
The Finances of the Grey Divorce
I’m Divorced, Now How Am I Going to Retire?
For the new generation of empty-nesters, divorce is becoming more common. Moreover, among people ages 50 and older, the divorce rate has doubled over the past 20 years. It used to be that as people got aged, the chances of divorce declined – but this is no longer the case. Given that the aging population is living longer and healthier, retiring post divorce is an issue for the grey divorce segment.
On this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, our guest is Eva Sachs, a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst and founder of Women in Divorce Financial http://www.WomenInDivorce.ca discusses the many concerns, considerations and consequences of financial planning post divorce for the older divorcee.
What do you need to think about, is a question many ponder. We answer that question and explore more:
- Creative solutions for a financially prudent separation agreement
- Adjusting to lifestyle differences post divorce
- Managing debt with less
- Medical/health benefits
- Retirement plans for the divorced
- The home as a burden or asset
Find out how to protect yourself and develop a list of questions, as you work through your finances for a financially secure retirement.
http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/im-divorced-now-how-am-i-going-to-retire/
It’s All About The Kids, “Stupid” – Parenting During Divorce
One of the most important concerns parents have post divorce is how their time is to be shared between their children. Is there such a thing about the right parenting plan or how parenting time is shared? In this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, our guest Dr. Phil Stahl has some very insightful answers and thoughts on parenting during divorce.
Dr. Stahl is one of the North America’s foremost parenting experts; a practitioner, author, and teacher, specializing in high conflict families of divorce. He has served on numerous committees and task forces designed to improve the quality of work in his field. He teaches judges, attorneys, psychologists and other mental health professionals about issues affecting families and children. His expertise is accepted in courts across the country.
If you are a parent going through a divorce, you will want to learn more about custody evaluations and some of the issues affecting families and children. This show is insightful for grandparents and step-parents…..or anyone who wants a better understanding of the parenting plan and putting the children’s best interests first.
Topics include:
- Communication blunders, and apologizing to our children for our mistakes
- Wise advice from Dr. Stahl’s book – Parenting After Divorce
- What makes a good parenting plan
- Parenting plan ideas
- Parenting through conflict
- How to share your child – your child is not a percentage
For more on Dr. Stahl, visit: http://www.parentingafterdivorce.com/index.html
To hear this insightful interview chock full of great advice tune in at http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/its-all-about-the-kids-stupid-parenting-during-divorce/
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Fathers are Important Too
Kids Need Their Fathers, During and After Divorce
One of the sad realities of divorce and the outcome is fatherlessness. In this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, we discuss the need for fathers to stay involved in their kids lives, especially during and after divorce.
Deborah Moskovitch
It is more common for father’s relationships to be thinned out more than mothers. While a lot of attention and research has focused on single-parent families where the parent is the mother, limited attention has focused on single-parent families where the father is the parent. Single-father families are a small, but growing segment of our society. But what happens when dads aren’t involved?
Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck explore this issue, and help provide an understanding of fatherlessness, while providing ideas for staying connected.
Did you know:
- Up to 25% of children do not see their father by 2-3 years after divorce
- Daughters that do not have a relationship with their father are more likely to have long term emotional issues – are more promiscuous and less likely to graduate from high school and college; while sons are more likely to exhibit delinquent behavior
- 80% of the daughters and sons in the U.S. only live with their fathers for a maximum of 10 to 15 percent of the time after their parents divorce
Tune in to discover what can be done and how you can overcome these obstacles. There’s been research that shows when fathers are more involved in their kids’ lives — they are less likely to divorce themselves.
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To hear this interview, click on the link
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How to Become the Most Awesome Dad
Becoming the Most Awesome Single Dad
Becoming the most awesome single dad is our new episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch. Dads often get under played in society and the media…..Disney dads, born again fathers, dads that disappear from their children’s lives…..and then there’s our guest Joel Schwartzberg.
Joel is an award-winning humorist, personal essayist and screenwriter whose work has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, New Jersey Monthly, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Star Ledger, Babble.com, and in the flimsy pages of regional parenting magazines around the country. He’s the author of The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad, a unique and award-winning collection of funny and personal essays that examine how divorce reinvents relationships with kids and one’s own sense of Dadhood.
Joel offers great tips and insights on being a part-time Dad in a full-time life — a meaningful interview for any parent, particularly the millions who’ve gone through divorce with their senses of humor intact.
Topics include:
- Putting a spin a heart wrenching situation and finding the humor in life
- “Lazy Dadurday” offer a glimpse into those special moments and new routines with dad after a split
- Top Ten Things Divorced Dads Need to Realize
- What Remarried Dads Owe Their Stepmom Wives
- And so much more….
More about Joel’s book, The 40 Year-Old Version can be found at: BookForDad.com
To hear this most awesome interview, click on the link http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/becoming-the-most-awesome-single-dad/
Can Divorce Cause Sickness & Disease?
Stress not only affects our mental well-being, but our physical health as well. Our guest, Dr. Vivien Browna family physician and Vice President for MEDISYS Health Group, Inc., in charge of Medical Affairs (http://www.medisys.ca/) explores the impact of stress on the body and how you can actually prevent disease and illness – because “nothing makes you feel more fragile than getting sick.”
Dr. Brown shares with us the importance of preventative medicine and what you can do at a time when your body is most vulnerable. An award winner for teaching on many levels, Dr. Brown’s major interests are in the area of health promotion and prevention for women, and continuing medical education. She is particularly focused in the area of Adult Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Illness.
Topics include:
- The impact of stress on the immune system on our lives
- Focusing on a healthy lifestyle and understanding modifiable risks
- Health promotion and health prevention
- The importance of a fitness program
- Important immunizations
- Coping with depression
To hear this podcast, click on the link: http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/can-divorce-cause-sickness-disease/
A Guide To Great Relationships
Tune in to The Smart Divorce on Divorce Source Radio to hear Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck discuss a “How to Guide” to great relationships.
Have you ever stopped to think why the divorce rate rises with each subsequent marriage, or why seemingly great relationships don’t work?
In this episode of The Smart Divorce with Deborah Moskovitch, Deborah and Steve Peck discuss relationships – what’s great and what isn’t. All too often people fall into the same relationship patterns – they get involved with the same “type” that didn’t work for them previously like physical appearance or character traits.
Today’s conversation includes:
- 5 Significant messages to be mindful of
- Avoid repeating the bad relationship patterns
- A candid story of Steve Peck’s relationship mistakes
- Deborah shares how she overcame her relationship immaturity
An interesting and informative show filled with insight and candor. Deborah speaks to the article she wrote Midlife Divorce: Blame it on Your Parents? http://www.more.ca/relationships/single-life/midlife-divorce-blame-it-on-your-parents/a/33856
To hear this informative interview click on the link
http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/great-relationships-a-how-to-guide-to-get-there-again/
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Announcing The Smart Divorce Radio Show
The Smart Divorce radio show on Divorce Source Radio.
Divorce touches almost everyone in society. If you haven’t personally experienced divorce, chances are you know someone how has. The impact on the individual, the family, and society are monumental. People are searching for answers and information to get through the divorce process with their sanity and dignity intact; they want to move forward with focus hope and confidence.
Brimming with expert advice and the personal experience and expertise of the hosts, Deborah Moskovitch and Steve Peck, listeners are entertained and educated with an enlightening, provocative and informative show. This is a unique and valuable show. There isn’t anything like this anywhere else.
From the trenches to the Benches — interviews with the leading divorce professionals across North America will be shared so that listeners will learn how to manage the divorce process in a healthier, less painful way and move on to create a better life postdivorce. We’ll also be speaking with individuals who have weathered divorce, and are sharing their experience by helping others as well.
Divorce Source Radio produces FREE programs featuring both legal and emotional advice from respected professionals. Tune in every week, to listen to our free programs on The Smart Divorce on Divorce Source Radio at http://www.divorcesourceradio.com/
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