We’ll meet again, don’t know where don’t know when.
It would have been hard to miss the beautiful note written to Jennifer Garner by her ex husband Ben Affleck this week. The note, which Affleck wrote after a relapse of alcoholism was heartfelt and insightful but it also carried a deeper message about the advantages of collaborative divorce over an old fashioned Court fight.[...]
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Smashed nest egg: Super is not just a women’s problem
Blokes are not super proof Let’s be very clear about this – superannuation, or lack there of, is not a women’s problem. If you are facing a divorce low superannuation balances are just as much as a problem for men, perhaps more so if they don’t realise just what is at stake. There’s a lot[...]
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New day, new start
It’s been a tumultuous week in Hewitt-Cohen land – professionally and personally. Running a business is often stressful and when work relationships fall over it can feel like a break-up of your own. Then there was this new website to launch. On top of that, if you are living in a household of teenagers[...]
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Different strokes for different folks: family time reinvented
When I was growing up my dad left home at 7.30 every morning and came home from work at 6 every night. Within 10 minutes of him getting home we’d all be sitting around the kitchen table eating dinner We’d talk about our day, laugh at Mum’s cooking, fight over second helpings and race to[...]
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Progress not perfection
I listened to a man the other day who thought he was a pretty rubbish dad. He had always been nervous with his daughter – he dropped her when she was a baby, and one day he was holding her and she was burnt by the kettle. Set against a fractious marriage, when the time[...]
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Celebrating divorced style
I went to a fantastic party on the weekend. There were nearly 200 people at my old friend’s family home. There was lots of champagne, lots of speeches and lots of love. Guests covered three generations – the party girl’s kids and her parents, her husband’s kids . . . and her first husband, his[...]
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