Parenting plan
Divorce causes suffering. This applies in particular to the children. Will the new parenting plan, which has been mandatory since 1 March 2009, change anything about this? Since 1 March 2009, parents with minor children who are separating must draw up a parenting plan together before the judge will consider a divorce petition. In this way, fathers […]
Return ticket ex
Journalist Wies Enthoven: 'Wim can do anything', I seem to have said in my greatest infatuation. When we broke up after thirty years, the friend who once pointed out that statement to me wisely kept her mouth shut. She saw that the sorrow was too great to joke about. After two years it came up again […]
Relationship Analysis: Is the Cookie Really Over?
Divorce is really bad for children. In the past, we often stayed together 'because of the children', but nowadays we no longer consider that a good reason. It is about mom and dad being happy and being able to develop themselves; then the children are happy too. Or so we think. Yet it is becoming increasingly clear that 'staying together for the children' […]
Resentful ex embraces crisis
Some women and men are slyly taking advantage of the economic crisis so that they can continue to live in the marital home during divorce proceedings. In doing so, they are making life very difficult for their future ex-husband or ex-wife, who is virtually powerless. This is what divorce lawyers have found. It mainly concerns couples with children who are forced to […]
Respectful divorce by mutual agreement
More and more people decide to divorce. In 2009 alone, 62,000 divorces took place in the Netherlands (according to Statistics Netherlands). The way in which this happens is changing. The 'collaborative divorce' has made its entrance. This intermediate form can be seen as an alternative to the classic way of divorcing (divorce on […]