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Because January has been International Child-Centered Divorce Month, Divorce Tool Box founder and Certified Divorce and Family Mediator Audrey Silcox offers 8 tips good for any month to help parents keep focused on their children before and after a divorce. Her extensive experience in high-conflict cases within the judicial system has shown that parents who do so are much more successful at transitioning into the life of co-parenting. With over a million children affected by divorce in the U.S. each year, Silcox says that child-centered divorce is vital for parents, their children, and society as a whole, both now and in the future.
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Because January has been International Child-Centered Divorce Month, Divorce Tool Box founder and Certified Divorce and Family Mediator Audrey Silcox offers 8 tips good for any month to help parents keep focused on their children before and after a divorce. Her extensive experience in high-conflict cases within the judicial system has shown that parents who do so are much more successful at transitioning into the life of co-parenting. With over a million children affected by divorce in
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Jan. 30, 2012
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STORMS DEMANDS UNIFORMITY IN STATEWIDE COURT E-FILING– The Florida Bar News, http://www.floridabar.org, Feb. 1, 2012.
“I don’t drag my clothes out to a stream and beat them on a rock. I use a washing machine,” Sen. Ronda Storms, R-Brandon, told those gathered Jan. 12 at the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations. “We have to maximize the technology available to us,” said Storms, an attorney and teacher, when talking about e-filing. Just the day before, she said, clerks’ employees visited her office with complaints that e-filing is not going smoothly, and all 67 counties should get on the same page. Fred Baggett, general counsel of the Florida Association of Court Clerks, defended the progress made and the $3 million spent over the past two years to build the e-filing system for court documents. State Courts Administrator Lisa Goodner assured Storms that the Florida Court Technology
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The cancellation of Lady Gaga show in Moscow last summer cost Russian Media Company UTV $1.8 million.
The company, which owns the Muz-TV music channel, filed a case with a Miami court against the American New Wave Entertainment Company to return the insurance deposit and compensation for the losses.
UTV claims it hired New Wave Entertainment to book the popular American singer to perform at the Muz-TV awards ceremony in June 2012.
“The company paid the necessary reservation deposit but the Americans could not guarantee the concert on the date needed for the channel,” Muz-TV said in a statement.
UTV claims New Wave Entertainment failed to secure Lady Gaga’s performance in Moscow, despite receiving the $1.5 million advance payment and $300,000 agency fee.
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Article source: http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/russian-media-court-lady-gaga-047/
ScienceDaily (Jan. 30, 2012) Divorce at a younger age hurts people’s health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist.
Hui Liu said the findings, which appear in the research journal Social Science Medicine, suggest older people have more coping skills to deal with the stress of divorce.
“It’s clear to me that we need more social and family support for the younger divorced groups,” said Liu, assistant professor of sociology. “This could include divorce counseling to help people handle the stress, or offering marital therapy or prevention programs to maintain marital satisfaction.”
Liu analyzed the self-reported health of 1,282 participants in Americans’ Changing Lives, a long-term national survey. She measured the gap in health status between those who remained married during the 15-year study period and those who transitioned from marriage to divorce, at certain ages and among different birth cohorts, or generations.
Liu found the gap was wider at younger ages. For example, among people born in the 1950s, those who got divorced between the ages of 35 and 41 reported more health problems in relation to their continuously married counterparts than those who got divorced in the 44 to
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Article source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120130131155.htm
Q. I plan to divorce my husband who has five credit cards in his name only. I am not authorized for any of the credit cards. My husband recently amassed a $13,500 debt on the cards. When I divorce him, am I liable for any of his debt? I have tried to talk to his credit card representatives but they refuse to talk to me because I am not on the credit cards and not authorized to use the cards.
– Soon-to-be-single
A. You have to deal with two perspectives here: the legal one, and the reality of divorce negotiations.
First, because you’re not listed on the account, you are not responsible for any of the credit card debt your husband has in his own name, said Jennifer Murray, a certified financial planner with Stonebridge Financial Advisors in Morristown.
“If you husband is slow in making credit card payments on this debt it will not affect your credit rating,” she said.
But during a divorce, any and all assets and liabilities amassed during a marriage are generally subject to equitable distribution.
“Just as you have a right to share in the value of all the assets acquired during the marriage,
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Article source: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/01/biz_brain_divorce_and_credit_c.html

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LeBron James got the thumbs-up from Dwyane Wade to facilitate the crunch-time offense.
MIAMI – The conversation needed to happen at some point.
There simply was no way around it. After sitting out the past six games to recover from a combination of ankle, foot and calf injuries, sooner or later Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade and forward LeBron James were going to have to discuss the most seamless way to reunite their dominant play.
After all, James and the Heat had redefined their playing style and rotation pecking order to the tune of a 5-1 record in the most recent stretch of games Wade missed. In that time, James found a productive comfort zone and strung together a run of MVP-worthy performances. He even started referring to his recent play as that of the Cleveland LeBron.
Well into their second season together in Miami, James and Wade still, at times, don’t play as much with each other as they do around one another. Finding their Kanye West/Jay Z balance, their Miles Davis/John Coltrane rhythm – especially in the fourth quarter of close games – remains the final frontier yet to be crossed for
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Siggy Flicker did it all for love. Or the prospect of love. The matchmaker and star of VH1’s Why Am I Still Single? was living the dream. Married to a handsome wealthy man. Two kids. Nannies. Country club in Boca Raton. Fabulous closet. But something was missing: the spark.
“We grew apart,’’ she says simply. “I was not going to live in a loveless marriage.’’
Blame it on Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. The turning point was seeing The Notebook, and bawling.
“I wanted that one-on-one chemistry and interaction,’’ says Flicker, who met her ex husband at a Jewish singles’ party at The Forge in 1997. “He was great: Funny, classy, tall. He had all the characteristics I look for in a man.’’
Their divorce was amicable, no lawyers. When they both moved back to the Tristate area, Flicker even set her ex up with his current mate. “I was brave enough to walk away,’’ says the New Jersey who lives in Tenafly.
The payoff was big: Five years ago Siggy went out with a friend
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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/29/2611793/reality-matchmaker-siggy-flicker.html
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