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Parenting

The Divorce Collaborative LLC of Medway and Attleboro Massachusetts is pleased to introduce our colleague and guest blogger,  Betsy Ross, LICSW, CGP.  Betsy is a Massachusetts divorce coach and a member of the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council.  Betsy’s expertise in collaborative divorce coaching, couples/family therapy, and group dynamics helps her to assist clients in emotionally [...]

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The Holiday season is upon us.  Some people, like my mom for instance, love the holidays.  Decorating is a multi-week process and there are so many ornaments on the tree that she and my step-father must deploy a support cable attached to a nearby wall to help hold it up.  It is about what you [...]

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Suggested Reads

by Stephen McDonough on September 27, 2009

There are two books that I  frequently suggest to clients with school-age children, so I thought it might be helpful to reference them in a short post.   An overwhelming amount of material exists on divorce, some of it good and some of it harmful.  When you do find a helpful resource, don’t foget to [...]

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The Divorce Coach (DC) = Damage Control (DC)

by Stephen McDonough on May 20, 2009

I recently received a comment from fellow attorney Nancy Van Tine the other day related to my post Maintain Your Divorce Sanity!  Nancy’s blog is the Massachusetts Divorce Law Monitor.   Nancy commented that she has never heard of a Divorce Coach, or as I sometimes refer to them in an effort to sound hip [...]

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Maintain Your Divorce Sanity!

by Stephen McDonough on May 17, 2009

Everyone knows that a divorce is stressful, but there are some steps you can take to better manage the anxiety surrounding the process.    I was orginally going to call this post  “The Top 10 Ways to Maintain Your Divorce Sanity”  but I really felt the need to have #11.  I am sure there are other [...]

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On February 15, 1950, Disney released its animated version of Cinderella.  Ever since, stepparents have been viewed as mean and ugly.  But in the real world of 2009, where about 50% of marriages end in divorce, and about 1/3 of us live in stepfamilies, it’s time to give stepparents a makeover.
Even though stepparents may provide [...]

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The website uptoparents.org has some thought-provoking content that focuses on parenting and protecting children during and after divorce.  I thought the section of the site on The Surprisingly Excellent Attorney was interesting.  This is certainly a far cry from the material on some lawyer websites extorting the benefits of fighting and destroying your recently ex-spouse [...]

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