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Ending Your Marriage Doesn’t Mean Your Children Have to Suffer

By Andrea Vacca

Lying awake at night worrying how a divorce will affect your children? Ending your marriage doesn’t mean your children have to suffer. Vacca Law Group can help you discover how to protect your children in divorce.

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Honest Conversation About Divorce - Vacca Law Family Group

An Honest Conversation About Divorce With Andrea Vacca

By Andrea Vacca

Andrea Vacca teams up with “Speak Your Mind” host Dr. Risa Ryger and Jan Mercer Dahms, Vice President of the Mayshad Group for Women’s Development, for an honest conversation about divorce and how the process can be collaborative instead of…

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Collaborative Divorce Process

The Artisans of the Collaborative Divorce Process – Part 2: The Family Specialist

By Andrea Vacca

Lawyers can do a lot of things to help clients in a collaborative divorce, but financial expertise or emotional expertise is sometimes best handled by specialists and experts – who I like to call the “artisans” of divorce. In part one of…

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Pre-Divorce Legal Guidance - Vacca Law

Pre-Divorce Legal Guidance: How a Lawyer Can Help You Make Decisions Before You Divorce

By Andrea Vacca

Many clients ask us what they can do if they know they want to divorce but aren’t sure if the time is right. Perhaps they’re concerned about finances or what will happen with their kids. Maybe they’re anticipating – or…

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The Financial Neutral

The Artisans of the Collaborative Divorce Process – Part 1: The Financial Neutral

By Andrea Vacca

I recently heard the analogy, “Attorneys in a Collaborative Divorce are like the general contractors.” The lawyers know the law and what issues and problems need to be solved, but they do not have the level of financial expertise, nor…

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Divorcing in the Face of Economic Uncertainty When Court Is Not An Option

By Andrea Vacca

In this Wealth Matters Column in the New York Times, I talked about options that are available to couples who want to divorce while the courts are closed or backlogged during the coronavirus pandemic. The columnist, Paul Sullivan, was particularly interested…

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Divorce Considerations During the Coronavirus Crisis

By Andrea Vacca

In any divorce, there are 3 key stages: the first divorce consideration is the decision about whether to divorce, the second is moving forward through the divorce process you’ve chosen, and the third is finalizing the details of the divorce.…

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How to Navigate the Early Stages of Divorce (Video)

By Andrea Vacca

New York collaborative divorce and mediation lawyer Andrea Vacca spoke to Marysol Castro of Pix11 Morning News and was asked whether there really is a divorce season (the answer is YES!) and to offer some divorce tips for how to navigate the early stages…

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Do You Want to Protect Your Privacy During Divorce? Then Keep It Out Of Court

By Andrea Vacca

When someone is first thinking about filing for divorce, they don’t often think about the lack of privacy that comes with the traditional divorce process. In New York, courtrooms are open to everyone.  Reporters may be in the courtroom, neighbors may…

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Common Mistakes When A Divorce Is Not Child-Centered - Vacca Law

3 Common Mistakes When A Divorce Is Not Child-Centered

By Andrea Vacca

In the blog 7 Tips for Putting Children First in a Divorce, I discussed how to have a child-centered divorce and the benefits to children. The other side of the equation is the common mistakes that parents make when they put…

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7 Tips for Putting Children First in a Divorce

By Andrea Vacca

A child-centered divorce is a divorce where the parents keep the physical and emotional needs of their children as their primary concern. In a child-centered divorce, every decision the parents make is through that lens – How will this affect…

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Divorce Without Court: A More Peaceful Solution – New eBook

By Andrea Vacca

New eBook by Andrea Vacca: Divorce Without Court: A More Peaceful Solution Do you assume divorce pits one spouse against the other, resulting in a nasty battle where no one actually wins and children are the collateral damage? When most…

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