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Divorce in your 60s, often called “gray divorce,” presents unique challenges like grief, anxiety, and identity crises, often intertwined with life transitions like retirement. Understanding these emotions is essential for moving forward. Here’s a closer look at the experiences and coping strategies.

Divorce is a life-altering event, especially for those in their 30s to 50s. Men and women face similar emotional challenges, such as grief, anxiety, and depression, but experience them differently due to societal roles and expectations. Understanding these nuances is key to moving forward.

A review of a popular app that helps divorced parents communicate and coordinate their parenting responsibilities. 

Getting your home, cottage, and rental properties appraised by a professional at the early stages of a divorce can indeed have both advantages and potential drawbacks. Here are the pros and cons of following this advice:

Real estate valuation involves the use of different approaches and methods to estimate the value of a property. Each approach and method offers a u...

Preparing for a separation or divorce involves practical steps around understanding your situation, gathering documents, securing finances, seeking legal advice, considering living arrangements, exploring mediation, maintaining self-care, and planning for the future. It is essential to remember to ask for help during this period, whether from professionals, friends, or family.

Though this is a difficult time, it is also a time of transition and personal growth, and with preparation and support, you can navigate this change successfully.

Marital separation can be a difficult and emotional process. Here are some steps that someone should take when going through a marital separation:

1. Know your provincial or state’s residency requirements: You must be aware of local divorce laws to know about your its residency requirements.
2. File separation papers: You begin to file for legal separation with your local family court requesting the separation and proposing the terms.
3. Serve your spouse with legal separation papers.
4. Your spouse responds.
5. Settlement of issues: Your proposal should address child custody, visitation, alimony, child support, and the division of marital property and debts during a separation agreement.
6. Negotiations.
7. The judge signs your separation judgment.