Category Archives: Divorce
3 Mindset Shifts That Can Make Gray Divorce More Bearable
Gray divorce is the new normal. If you are going to get divorced, it will probably happen when you are over 50, and if that happens, it will mean changing the plans for the future that you have been working on for years. You will eventually make it to the next phase of your… Read More »
Divorcing a Spouse Who Has No Sense of Accountability
A recent article on the En Pareja website told the stories of four men whose marriages had ended in divorce after each man had been married to his wife for decades. The stories differed regarding what was the final straw that led the men to file for divorce, but a common thread among all… Read More »
Your Finances May Not Be Rosy After Gray Divorce
Divorce rates are decreasing, even after you account for the fact that marriage rates have also been getting lower in recent years. Fewer people get married, and the ones that do are likely to stay married. The age group accounting for an ever-larger share of divorce cases is couples over age 50. Some participants… Read More »
Managing Co-Parenting Conflict During Summer Vacation
Now that the snow has melted and the daylight hours are getting longer, children all over Ontario are counting the days under summer vacation, even though they still have a few weeks to wait. Parents do not view summer vacation with nearly the same joyful anticipation as children do. For parents, summer vacation is… Read More »
How Does Financial Infidelity Affect Your Divorce Case?
Lies about money are a common cause of the breakdown of marriages and intimate relationships. The laws of Ontario enable people to dissolve domestic partnerships with or without the involvement of the court if the parties are not married to each other and do not have minor children together. If you seek to divorce… Read More »
Are You Sure Your Gray Divorce Settlement Will Leave You Set for Life?
Divorce always feels like a major defeat when you are in the midst of it. If you are young when you get divorced, you might feel like your whole world has shattered, and you are no longer sure of anything you have ever believed. You feel like you are restarting your adult life from… Read More »
Your Financial Obligations to a Freeloading Spouse Do Not Always End as Soon as You Divorce
For every divorced couple whose marriage fell apart because they prioritized their commitments to their respective careers over their commitments to the family they shared, there is a divorced couple that grew apart because only one spouse was in the workforce. At their best, families where one spouse earns employment income while the other… Read More »
Think Before You Curveball Divorce
Leave it to the Internet to make up new names for things that aren’t new and act like it just discovered or invented them, especially when it comes to relationship trends. For the past few years, the Internet has talked about gray divorce, but this is not a new phenomenon. Rather, before there were… Read More »
Getting Your Fair Share of the Marital Property After Financial Future Faking Has Wrecked Your Marriage
When you complain to a wise elder about how someone got your hopes up, the wise elder will remind you that no one can get your hopes up unless you let them. Many divorced people are divorced because they realized too late that their expectations about the future did not match their spouses’ expectations;… Read More »
Navigating Awkward Social Situations After Divorce
Divorce increases financial stress for almost everyone, even people who were financially well off during their marriages. Adjusting to lean times, which might only become leaner in the future, is not the worst part, though. The hardest part of divorce is finding a new way to interact with people, including but not limited to… Read More »