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“Everyone’s a Parent For The First Time”

Christian was adorable. He was blond-haired, and six feet tall, a twenty-eight-year-old firefighter built like Adonis. He came to my office in jeans and a t-shirt, and nice leather sandals. He had just discovered that his erstwhile girlfriend, Jamie, a deputy sheriff, was expecting. He had apparently impregnated her during their failed attempt to patch

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Next Generation Divorce June 2014 Member of the Month

Repost from the Next Generation Divorce Website: Having spent the first 34 years of her career as a highly successful trial attorney, viagra Joryn Jenkins successfully assisted her first collaborative divorce client in 2002, over 12 years ago. She recently founded Open Palm: Win-Win Divorce by Joryn Jenkins, a law firm committed to offering collaborative

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Collaborative Divorce- Because It’s Not All About You!

“Statistics show that, in the U.S., 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 73% of third marriages end in divorce.” This is the old saw, but are these alarming numbers really accurate? All argument aside, there is no question that divorce is rampant in today’s society.  What many people don’t appreciate, at least until they are

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Why a Collaborative Divorce?

Why is a collaborative divorce better than a traditional divorce? 1 – A collaborative divorce is confidential.  In the collaborative process, both the personal financial information and the private family problems (addictions, domestic violence, affairs, and mental health issues) can generally be protected from public scrutiny.  The same is just not true in the traditional setting, where the law usually

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