Family breakups can be extremely upsetting and stressful for the entire family, regardless of whether the breakup was amicable or not. When a family unit breaks down, there is a lot that needs to be thought about and organized, one of the key factors that need to be carefully considered is finance.
Major life changes will require you to shift your priorities. Regardless of how planned you think your life is, you have to change your goals in order to cope with the changes happening around you. This is usually what happens when going through a divorce. More often than not, divorce will require you or your partner to move out of the house.
Getting divorced can be a massive setback in anyone’s life. You may have been comfortable and happy in your relationship, but when situations change and you find yourself on your own it can feel as though you have had the rug pulled from under you.
Designing a home that you are going to live out the rest of your life in may seem like a daunting task. It has to be utterly perfect if you’re going to live there forever, right? It doesn’t have to be such a big responsibility on your shoulders, and you can take your time in getting to the end result. You have the rest of your life to get it right, after all.
It might only be November, but Christmas is well and truly rearing its head. The John Lewis advert has been shown on the TV, the mince pies are being cracked out, and you might even hear the odd Michael Buble song on the radio.
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Co-parenting after a divorce can be tricky to say the least, and this can be even truer if you do not have a good, or at least neutral, relationship with your ex-partner. However, it is vital if you want your child’s life to remain stable and happy as you go through this difficult time.
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