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Know Your Number Before A Divorce What’s so important about a number? We’re surrounded by irrelevant numbers every day, but your number is different. Your number is important; it’s the amount of money you’ll need to maintain your lifestyle once you’re divorced. When preparing for divorce, too many women calculate the amount of money they need to maintain their lifestyle simply by looking at their current expenses. What they overlook are the important products and services they should have now and what those items cost. To be financially independent, you should know what it will cost to educate your children and plan for your own retirement. A Financial Advisor can accurately calculate the future costs of your children’s educations and your retirement and determine the type of savings plan you’ll need to cover the costs of ... Read more |
Selecting the Right Divorce Attorney With nearly 50 percent of all marriages ending in divorce it is critical that anyone going through this traumatic, complex process select the lawyer who can do the best job representing them. As part of an ongoing video series dealing with various divorce issues Judy Chapman, founder of Garden State Woman, asked Susan Reach Winters to share her thinking on the process people should go through when selecting a lawyer to work with in their divorce. Susan is one of New Jersey's top family law experts and a partner at the Short Hills-based Budd Larner law firm where she chairs their family and matrimonial practice. In the first video interview hosted in this section of our web site Susan spoke about the importance of developing a fair and equitable prenupt... Read more |
The Art of Listening A key to successful parenting is the Art of Listening. Kids know when adults are paying attention to them and when they aren’t. Half hearted listening gets picked up automatically and causes them to feel as if what they are saying doesn’t matter. As a parent you have to be present in the moment. Give them your attention and your time. Those are the most important gifts you can share with your children and often the hardest. When you are really listening, you can pick up on what is going on with your child, because sometimes it is not what your kids are saying, but how they are saying it, or what they are trying “not to say,” that is important. When you are only partially paying attention you may miss something valuable that your child is trying to communicate to you! And when you mi... Read more |
Avoid Blind Dates with Your Vacation A Primer for Planning the Perfect Woman's Vacation. The world has changed, women have changed, but the travel industry still operates on the couples’ model. Check out most brochures, especially cruise materials: you will see lovely couples enjoying the waves, the Eiffel Tower and the Taj Mahal. Tour companies and hotels – today even spa hotels - are used to THE COUPLE and their concerns and queries. So if you are a woman taking a vacation, alone or as a girlfriend getaway, you need to ask questions that are not the norm. Based on years of living in France, Switzerland and England, then traveling The East Coast for corporate work, finally running a women-only tour company, this writer developed a deposition she must have completed, before she takes a solo “blind... Read more |
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