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How to Decide When to Say “No” to Your Friends and Family
Are you overwhelmed? Are your family and friends still asking you to help them when you have absolutely nothing left to give? Here are some useful tips to to reduce your stress and decide whether to help a friend or family member when you are feeling burnt out or overwhelmed.
How to Deal with Your Spouse's Debt
You recently learned that you spouse has a lot more debt than you knew of. Your spouse only told you about the debt because you filed for divorce, and now wants you to take half of it. What can you do?
How to Stop Faking It and Actually Get What You Want
No need to continue faking it till you make it. You can go out there and live your dreams by following these tips.
How Does Life Insurance Impact Divorce?
Insurance is an important piece of finance as it safeguards your family from the unforeseeable. After a divorce, it's important to take a look at your options as the family dynamic has changed and new options may be available to you.
IEP Meetings and Guardian Ad Litem
A lot of situations that involve a guardian ad litem would be where parents are having problems helping their kids with discipline at school or behavior at school, or falling behind academically. The parents might get frustrated because they don’t know what to expect from the school or what to do with their child.
Achieving Goals With the Help of a Coach
Life is full of surprises and it can be challenging after dealing with a hurtle like divorce, but there are professionals who will help guide people to achieve their goals in a timely manner.
Finding Positive Parenting Solutions
What are Positive Parenting Solutions? Parenting Place’s Triple P Program is an evidenced based trauma informed program that focuses on developing Positive Parenting Solutions. There are different programs structured for the specific needs of the parents and the children.
Life During Quarantine As We Experienced It
We all have been going through this coronavirus Safer At Home lockdown together. In this fun video, Anthony Karls gets on Zoom and chats with some of our attorneys and staff to learn how they have been surviving the quarantine while working from home and staying safe.
How Earning Capacity is Imputed will Affect your Divorce Settlement
If you lose your job or are looking to go back into the workforce while going through a divorce, your earning capacity will be evaluated and imputed based on what is learned about your earning potential. This could affect your divorce settlement.
What are the Benefits of Parenting Coaching?
It may not be the easiest thing to acknowledge the need for outside help, but when you do everyone will have the opportunity to benefit for parent coaching.
Meet CSS Training MGR Mary Sankey
Mary joined Sterling Lawyers in March of 2018. Under Mary's mentoring, the Client Solutions Team learns to validate prospective and current clients through empathetic listening.
The Benefits of Day Camps for Kids
Anthony Karls, the host of Flourishing Families, sits down with Pat Quin of Cedar Springs Outdoor Adventure Day Camp and the conversation quickly turns to the benefits of a child attending day camp. They discuss how day camps provide the child an opportunity to develop the foundations of their character.
Meet CSS MGR Kelley Shaw
Client Solutions Team manager Kelley Shaw has been with Sterling Lawyers since 2015. “Every interaction with every client and every potential client, is an opportunity for us to build relationships across our community,” Kelley says, in this interview.
The Stages of Financial Independence
We recently sat down with George Schmidley of Affiliated Financial Advisors for this video about getting started towards financial independence and followed up with questions where we ask him about the stages of financial independence and if this were a goal or a process.
The Power of Validating Others
We all seek validation and likely have a basic understanding of the benefit of validating others. However, this simple skill is often the hardest interpersonal skill to understand and master.
Do I Have to Pay Alimony if My Ex is Living With Someone?
Many factors affect alimony. A spouse does not have to marry someone legally in order to be eligible for change in spousal support. Two people can be in a de-facto married relationship where they are not married and they act as a married couple by living together and paying everyday bills, etc.
Maintaining Communication During Divorce
Children may make the idea of “no contact” a little tricky after your divorce. If you have kids, it's important to put your differences aside for the betterment of the child's life.
The Changing Practice of Home Appraisal
The process of diving property and debt during/after the divorce is called property division. When it comes to homes, whether you want your house to appraise above or below the fair market rate depends on you wanting to keep it or be bought out.
Handling the Emotional Turmoil of Divorce
Handling the Emotional Turmoil of Divorce Latrice Knighton is an award-winning divorce attorney, life coach, and speaker. She solves problems using her experience and legal knowledge to offer practical advice.While going through divorce it may seem like you're going...
Complexities of House Appraisals During Divorce
No one enjoys the thought of splitting their assets during a divorce, but it's an important step to equally distributing the things two people have jointly owned.