Mediation In Lieu of Foreclosure Many Foreclosure - Mediations have ended in a HAMP (Home Affordable Mortgage Program) modification, which the homeowner is entitled to anyway without the time and expense of mediation.  While Foreclosure Mediations are no longer mandated in Florida, homeowner distress—mental and in real estate—continues to thrive in mediations and other legal procedures.

How To Tell Your Children About Divorce In Ten Steps - There are few harder moments in parenthood than telling your kids that it’s over between mommy and daddy.

How not to bring debt into a second marriage - Here’s the scoop. Any debts that were incurred before the marriage remain the sole responsibility of the owner of the debt after the marriage. So, if you marry, your fiancee’s creditors may not attempt to collect from you any of her debt that was incurred before the marriage. They cannot report any of her debt on your credit report.

How Divorce Can Take a Toll on One’s Credit - RoadFish.com men’s lifestyle and finance magazine today released their observations and experience with the different ways divorce can have a negative impact on credit. Their contribution may help recent divorcees due to the current high divorce rate in the United States and the harmful affect that the ramifications of divorce can have on both parties’ credit scores.

Divorce, aftermath can be difficult - If you have lawyers involved and up to this point you’ve done your communicating through them, perhaps you’d want to address it that way, or request some type of mediation and set limits for you both on spending etc.

How to Help Your Children Cope with Your Divorce - The fallout from divorce takes its toll on you personally, and on your role as a parent. You need to be emotionally strong and stable. After all, you are your children’s role model for resilience in the face of crisis.

Just How Private Should Divorce Be? - Divorce doesn’t just affect a couple and their immediate family; friends, neighbors and entire communities are impacted as well, she writes in “There But for the Grace: The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce,” an article in the Institute for American Values’ newsletter, “Propositions.”

Money fights break marriages - You’ve heard it a million times – fights over money are the No. 1 cause for divorce among American couples.

Protecting Your Business During a Divorce Takes Foresight, Planning - Most everyone who gets married does not intend for that relationship to dissolve in the future. Unfortunately, divorce affects over half of married couples. Without foresight and a plan, family businesses may be sold wholesale or in part during divorce proceedings. It is imperative that business owners take legal precautions before they marry to protect their businesses in the otherwise unplanned event of divorce.

When homeowners find themselves facing foreclosure, it can sometimes be difficult to get out from - When homeowners find themselves facing foreclosure, it can sometimes be difficult to get out from under the weight of the pressure and stress. Homeowners who find themselves in this circumstance are often blind to the options that are available to them.

How to Minimize the Impact of Divorce on Your Small Business - Divorce in itself is often devastating to the parties involved, but when one of those parties is a small business owner, the business can be affected as well.

Divorce Signs: 10 Signs Your Marriage Is In Trouble - We’ve all heard the dauntingly horrible statistic: 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. No one wants to be a cliché, and everyone wants to find themselves amongst the 50 percent that beat the odds.

Binding mediation: A way to end disputes quickly, cheaply - For many years, various alternative dispute resolution, or ADR, methods have been used to reduce costs and expedite resolution of civil disputes. The two most-used ADR methods have traditionally been arbitration (in which an arbitrator imposes an outcome on the parties after a formal evidentiary hearing), and mediation (in which a mediator assists the parties in reaching an out-of-court settlement through an informal negotiation process).

Bankruptcy and Divorce - Divorce is often the cause of serious financial stress, and many individuals going through a divorce wonder if they should file for bankruptcy. They wonder how they will be affected if a spouse files. They may hope that they can avoid paying child support or alimony if they are declared bankrupt. They have questions about the automatic stay and how it might protect them from creditors.