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Imagine you know from the credit card statement that your husband purchased two Valentine's Day cards and something from a jeweler. You smile and anxiously await the day meant to celebrate your love for each other. Valentine's Day arrives, and at breakfast your...

"All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Throughout the decades of representing clients in divorce, I've had the opportunity to engage psychologists to testify about family dynamics. Specifically, in...

Writing has always been a passion for me. When I was five or six, I wrote a story to enter a contest sponsored by Highlights magazine. The winner's prize was a pony. I set out to write a story about a duck who thought its mother was a horse. For weeks I waited on the...

I am very grateful for those loyal souls who have been kind enough to check out my website. I'm also most grateful for those who talked me in off the ledge when I was writing this book and dove head first into establishing social media platforms (ugh), and convinced...

As a divorce attorney, I spent over 30 years asking clients what happened in their relationship to bring them to my office. Many times, no matter how much they thought they loved each other, introducing a baby who requires 24/7 attention into the relationship caused...

Unfortunately, being born with a fully formed personality is not endemic to the human species. In fact, research finds that personalities in children go through various stages of development which, by the way, strongly mimics the behaviors of a sociopath, such as:...

Amidst the hand-wringing over the seismic shift in marriage in America, there is an equal amount of wrangling over what traditions should be followed since women in the 21st century have choices, like whether to take a spouse's name. With respect to this issue, like...

Many people believe asking the person you're about to marry to sign a prenuptial agreement is insulting, offensive, and bad for the marital health of your relationship. I wholeheartedly disagree. You see, today, people marry for love with the expectation that their...

By the spoiler title, I'm sure you've guessed if you read the first blog, The Proposal, Susan called Phillip; they made up and were married. Shortly after they returned from their honeymoon, Susan found out she was pregnant. Although it was unexpected news, they were...

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