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Parting
Ways
Divorce lawyer Michael
Taussig, QC, offers his top five tips for separating in a civlised manner
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Get good advice - about your legal position and the possible effect
on all interested "players": your partner, children, parents,
relatives, friends, workmates, yourself. Understand what you're getting
yourself into.
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Discuss
this advice with your partner, and try to resolve the emotional and
legal issues. If this is difficult, suggest that you both seek some
counselling.
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Listen
to the counsellor's advice and try to follow it.
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Keep
the communication open, especially if children are involved. There
are likely to be important occasions in the future your children will
want you both to be part of.
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Try
to resolve any disputes by negotiation, mediation or arbitration.
This helps you retain ownership of the solution.
Sunday
Life, The Sunday Age Magazine, December 9, 2001
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