Five Strategies to Get a Better Deal in Mediation – Tilt the process in your favor in a divorce or a dispute with a broker or business partner

10 Lessons I’ve Learned About Marriage From Divorce – Having a successful marriage is all about the choices we make every minute of every day. Marriages fail when spouses make poor choices as to how they are going to treat each other.

Getting A Mortgage After Bankruptcy And Foreclosure – If it’s the American Dream to own a home, it’s the American Nightmare to file for bankruptcy. In the late Aughties (that’s the 2000s) the U.S. housing market collapsed and the economy began its freefall; by the time the economy struck bottom in March 2009 more than 1.2 million parties had filed for bankruptcy in the previous 12 months. By March 2010 that figure had shot up to 1.5 million. Blame job loss – unemployment peaked at 10% in October 2009 – as well as divorce and medical expenses. From 2008 through 2013 total foreclosures reached 17.9 million.