Should We Separate Our Finances? When a couple gets married, whether to keep their finances separate is often a question. For some couples, it’s easy. My husband and I planned that my career as an attorney would take a backseat to his career as an executive because I would be the caregiver for our children […]
Austin’s Best Mentor When asked to describe what a “mentor” is or does, I’d be quick to respond with Merriam-Webster’s definition, “a wise and trusted counselor or teacher,” or perhaps its second meaning, “an influential senior sponsor or supporter.” Whichever you choose, both serve well as analytic explanations, but, for me, a “mentor” can only
Focus Forward, Never Back In practicing collaboratively, we focus our clients on the future. Fixing your attention on how you want your life to look five years from now is a positive and optimistic endeavor that inevitably uplifts your spirits, especially when the present is an upheaval of divorce-related stress and anxiety-provoking decisionmaking. And making
Your New Co-Worker During Quarantine “What’s that noise? Now what’s that smell?!” These are the thoughts that run through my head as I head into my “office” on my fortieth day of quarantine. And no, I’m not hearing construction or traffic from the window of my private office at my law practice. And no, I’m
Lessons of High Profile Divorces High profile celebrities and business moguls who find themselves getting divorced have more than most of us to lose. Financially, they are likely to have more assets to divvy up. But socially, because of their prestige, they must also deal with the whole world being interested in their private business.
As first seen on the Florida Academy of Collaborative Professionals website Hanlon’s Razor I love this. “Hanlon’s Razor states that we should not attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity.” In a complex world, this principle helps us avoid extreme paranoia and ideology, often very hard to escape from, by not
First published on the My Collaborative Team blog on May 1st, 2020 Breathe Trust me, you can’t escape it. By it, I mean . . . well, you know . . . it. Coronavirus! In the past two months, I’ve grown to accept that media, all over the world, is focused on it. After pouring
Entrepreneurialism During Lockdown Last night, during an interview, a talk show host asked me what I was looking forward to when the pandemic is over. I told her that I wasn’t going to wish my life away, that I had done enough of that when I was younger. That said, I see so many of
Quarantine Guilt The other day, I found myself with a bit of “downtime” during quarantine. My baby was actually napping. My five-year old had been sucked into some screen time (non-educational, of course). My husband was involved with a conference call. What to do with this magical moment? Work, of course. So I fired up
Can COVID-19 Impact My Custody? As if nurses and doctors aren’t dealing with enough already, now they have to worry about losing their parental rights in the middle of all this mania. In fact, at least one emergency room physician laboring on the frontlines in our fight against the coronavirus has had her child custody
