How to Keep the Peace During Your Divorce

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When a marriage ends and divorce has been set in motion, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed and uncertain about the future. But what if there was a way to divorce that didn’t involve bitter courtroom battles and endless arguments? Enter collaborative divorce – a process that offers couples a more peaceful path to separation. The…

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The Wild, the Weird and the Wonderful

One of the most important missions at LACFLA is to be able to not only help couples who are divorcing through the collaborative divorce process but also help the many various professionals who make up the growing group of collaborative divorce teams in California. By offering free monthly professional educational sessions through various discussion groups,…

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How Divorce can Affect a Child’s Mental Health

By Ria Severance, LMFT As couples reach the place in their marriage where they feel a divorce is the wisest step forward, couples with children, including adult children, are advised to thoughtfully consider how the children will process their parents’ getting a divorce, and how their restructured family landscape will be altered going forward. Work…

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Midlife Crisis and Divorce

By Ria Severance, LMFT When you experience a mid-life crisis due to developmental or life-changing events, you may notice on the other side of these events that you do not imagine yourself continuing in your marriage. The number one reason people give for divorcing is that they’ve “grown apart.” Maybe you’ve spent over a decade…

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