For most, the holidays are for togetherness and joy, but that can be hard to embrace when you have children and are either finalizing divorce papers or have already done so. Ideally, you want your kids to have a great season filled with warmth, love, and presents. But when there…
Over the last decade, the state of Oklahoma has spent tens of millions of dollars on its Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, designed to reduce the amount of divorce papers filed each year through a number of free education programs. Former governor Frank Keating dreamed up the OMI as a means of…
When most people say, “I do,” they don’t believe that the marriage will ever end in divorce papers. They don’t even think it’s an option. However, as time goes on, that initial closeness will fray into the realities of daily life. Before a couple knows it, they’ve grown apart. One…
Lisa Arends, in a recent piece for Huffington Post, described her experience with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after finding herself unexpectedly signing divorce papers. “When my husband left, I trembled for a year,” she writes. “That’s not just some figurative language used to convey emotion; I literally shook. For…
Often times men and women spend so much time planning their wedding day that they forget to prep for the next 50 years that come after it. Planning the marriage through careful and meaningful conversation is a much better expenditure of time than how many you’ll have in the wedding…
The Family Research Council has taken a hard line against no-fault divorce in a recent statement to promote a panel devoted to curbing the perceived divorce epidemic in the United States. The FRC wrote: “Families are torn in two, children grow up without a stable home or with a missing…
In a recent Q&A, Annie Fox, M.Ed., a teen and family adviser, award-winning author, and writer of the new book Teaching Kids to Be Good People, fielded a question from one concerned mom, who had finalized divorce papers and since moved on to a new relationship. Her question: “How do…
Online divorce hasn’t quite overtaken divorce court in sheer volume of cases, but it is becoming an increasingly popular option. With high-profile attorneys like Laura Wasser advising a more civil path to divorce, it’s no wonder that many spouses are working together to complete their divorce papers in a manner…
Previous research that we’ve conducted here at iDivorceForms.com (IDF) has indicated that women choose to file divorce papers around 64 percent of the time. In most of these cases, the women earn more money than their male counterparts, and according to other studies from outside of our company, they deal…
Traditionally, men have claimed role of “breadwinner” in a family while women were associated with household management and raising children. We don’t have to tell you that a lot has changed since that 1950s paradigm, and from the sound of things, it doesn’t appear like men are taking it all…