Lessons from a Recent Tragedy
The Christmas Eve massacre in California has raised a lot of significant questions, and some of these questions center around the couple’s recent divorce. There are some hard lessons that anyone who is going through divorce or is contemplating divorce should keep in mind.
Our practice embraces a number of different legal strategies for divorce, and each of them has pros and cons depending on your circumstances, and the philosophies you and your spouse embrace. Some of the best and least painful ways to dissolve your marriage are mediation or collaborative divorce, because they allow each party to come away without feeling destroyed.
Just as essential is that if the divorce is not crushing to either side, there can be dialogue between both parties that can continue after the divorce is finalized and everyone has moved on to the next stage in their lives. No one outside that family in California and a close circle of friends yet know the details of why this horrible tragedy took place. What we do know is that things like this don’t happen often, but when they do we all need to take stock and think about ways to make sure situations like this can be avoided.
In the end, the way a divorce is handled can have a long-lasting and significant impact on the “afterlife” of divorce.
