Divorce Lawyers Knoxville

According to Court statistics the month most divorces are filed is January. It’s hard to imagine that January would be any better for divorcing than any other month, so why the statistical disparity? Most likely the holidays. A lot of couples who may have mentally and emotionally already divorced choose to grind it out during the holidays for the sake of children or other members of their family. Psychology Today says:

Some couples who’ve been planning to break up choose to avoid disrupting their families during the holidays. Others may be hoping that their situation or their partner’s behaviors will change, and when nothing shifts, they opt for dissolution, which at best is a sad thing.

The article also provides useful tips on how to brake the news to children and other family members:

If you have children, you need to break the news to them gently and slowly. A good place to start is to tell them that it is not their fault and that Dad and Mom will always be there and will always, and in all ways, love them. Some additional reassurance as to how their lives will not change is also highly recommended. Do your best to keep things as normal as possible.

If your child begins to act out by not doing well in school or by being more difficult than usual, I would advise that you at least get him or her to one counseling session for an evaluation. Some kids don’t show any signs of their inner struggles, and in all cases, you must talk with them about how they are feeling and dealing with the changes.

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Here’s an interesting blog post that offers advice to divorcing parents in easy-to-remember 3-word phrases. The idea came from reading three-word tips for businesses and it was adapted for divorcees. Read the whole list or just a part of it below:

• Divorce with dignity
• Children come first
• Business Like Communication
• Co-parenting without conflict
• Shield the children
• Protect the children
• Money wasted fighting
• High conflict co-parenting
• Divorce financial planning
• Life after divorce
• Shared parenting works
• Keeping divorce friendly
• Blended family success
• Make co-parenting work
• Empower divorced parents
• Find parenting tools
• Increase family peace
• Children are priority
• Avoid divorce conflict
• winning co-parenting strategies
• Parenting time schedules
• Parenting time calendars

Even though divorce may seem like the end of the world, or at least the end of any type of meaningful relationship with the other parent of your child, it doesn’t necessarily have to be. By putting some of these ideas into practice you can often make the best of a bad situation.

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