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There are the Parenting Plans, which are tough enough to create and maintain, and there are the Parenting Relationships which are even more challenging to amicably develop. Why? Because the tone of the marriage, and subsequently the tone of the divorce, dictates the tone of the Parenting Relationship. This is why it’s so incredibly important […]

Listen Here: https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/compartmentalize-emotion/ The difference between an amicable and an acrimonious divorce is how each spouse feels about their soon-to-be ex, and how they manage and express their emotions. That’s why grieving before filing is so important. There are seven stages to divorce grief: Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, Forgiveness. When you’ve reach Acceptance, […]

https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/dishonesty-is-the-d-word-in-divorce/ Divorce is fraught with fear. People go from trusting each other to feeling like they don’t know each other once the divorce conversation takes place. Then they start either misreading each other, or drawing inaccurate conclusions about the way their spouse may want to approach anything from the financial discussion that is a necessary […]

https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/did-you-marry-the-wrong-person-wcoach-carrie-cohen-psychotherapist/ In Episode 244 with Coach Carrie Cohen, Marriage Coach and Psychotherapist we explored the situation of marrying the wrong person. A national average from the Department of Labor Statistics states that 50% of us are divorced from our first marriages. But it gets worse: 60% of second marriages and 70% of third marriages end […]

https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/the-secret-power-of-forgiveness/ Forgiveness is one of the 7 Stages of Divorce Grief.  It’s the last stage before a person’s life can truly turn around. Here are the 7 Stages: Shock, Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, Forgiveness. The first five are obvious for people going through divorce. The last two are the most positive stages and serve […]

Listen Here: https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/are-you-a-victim-1-step-to-control/ Being a Victim is a Choice, not a Requirement. It takes a while to figure that out. Some people are victims as a result of learned behavior from their parents’ relationship and don’t realize they are repeating that behavior. We have cognitive memory and muscle memory. Quite often we need someone who […]

Listen Here: https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/the-power-of-silence/ We live in a continuous loop of communication between social media, podcasts, radio, television, texts, emails, and actual verbal conversation. The world keeps talking and in order to get a word in edge-wise, we need to amp up our responses. But in the world of divorce, when our communication skills are compromised […]

Listen Here: https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/lessons-learned-from-mediations-this-week/ 1. There are so many relationship issues that come to the forefront at the mediation that I now look at mediation as an opportunity to correct the record and to cleanse the relationship. As my clients go through their mediations, I always learn something about relationships and about life. Here are a […]

Listen Here: https://judyweigle.podbean.com/e/protect-child-and-spousal-support-after-divorce-wdina-mabry-life-insurance-expert/ In Episode 239 of THE Amicable Divorce Expert podcast, you learned the following: Life insurance can protect your child and spousal support payments in the event that the payor dies or becomes unable to work. A Term Life Insurance policy is written on the life of a person, and is collected if […]