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Your Compass Through Divorce’s Complex Terrain
At Starting Point Divorce Advocacy, we offer comprehensive guidance at every stage of your separation or divorce. Whether you're contemplating a life-changing decision or navigating its aftermath, our expertise cuts through the complexity to help you rebuild.
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Services We Offer
Certified Divorce Coaching
We provide a 360-degree view of divorce, covering emotional readiness, connecting you with legal experts, and safeguarding your future well-being. Our coaching helps you:
- Understand the divorce process and assist you with locating an attorney right for you and your case
- Develop co-parenting plans that prioritize your children
- Work with the best financial experts to create court-approved income and expense statements; uncover hidden assets and give financial direction
- Reconnect to a new social life and prepare for your next work chapter
Rule 31 Family Mediation
As neutral third-party mediators, we help you and your spouse reach amicable agreements, saving you from the emotional and financial toll of court battles. Our mediation services:
- Assist in reaching equitable agreements on parenting time, division of assets, and alimony
- Reduce stress by facilitating out-of-court agreements
- Are specially trained in domestic violence and emotional/financial abuse scenarios
Real Estate Services: Research & Expertise
Navigating the intricacies of real estate during divorce can be daunting. Our specialized real estate services are designed to support you in this critical area:
- Uncover marital properties or real estate hidden under LLCs and trusts
- Provide accurate and comparable home and property valuations
- Offer guidance on deeds, titles, loans, and liens associated with real estate assets
- Refer and advise on the financial ramifications of keeping or selling the family home
Parenting Plans & Co-Parenting Communication
We help you approach parenting decisions with clarity and confidence—creating child-centered plans and improving co-parenting communication so everyone knows what to expect. Our coaching helps you:
- Develop parenting plans that reflect your family’s unique needs and prioritize your children’s well-being
- Improve communication strategies with your co-parent to reduce conflict and set healthy boundaries
- Prepare documentation and recommendations you can confidently present to your attorney
- Anticipate future co-parenting challenges and create solutions that grow with your family
Questions You Might Be Asking
We are not attorneys and will not give you legal advice. However, we will help connect you with the right attorney for your case so that you can make your best decisions for your future.
Before the Decision
- Should I stay in this marriage? Or should I go?
- Who should move out?
- When is the right time to get a divorce?
- Which attorney should I use?
- How will I protect myself financially?
- I’m afraid of my spouse…. Will this make it worse for me?
- How do we tell the children? How does divorce affect them?
- I just got served and I’m angry, hurt, numb... everything. What do I do?
- What will people think of me if I get divorced?
- Whose side will our friends take?
During the Process
- I’m overwhelmed. Where do I even start?
- What do I need to live on for my future?
- How can I be confident in asking for what I need from my attorney and/or spouse?
- What’s the divorce process like?
- Can I afford to keep the house? and schools for my children?
- Where can I go to find information about my spouse’s military benefits?
- What if my spouse cleans out our accounts? Or stops direct deposit?
- Will the children and I still have health insurance?
- How do I create a parenting visitation plan?
- My spouse has introduced the children to their new lover! What now?
After the Dust Settles
- Do I need a job immediately?
- My children’s parent isn’t honoring the Parenting Plan, now what?
- The child support or alimony is late… what do I do?
- I’m still Angry. How can I let go and move on?
- I feel ashamed and alone. Where was God in this?
- All my friends are married. How do I reconnect socially?
- How do I get their name off the title and financial paperwork?
- Will I find love again?
- I’m struggling financially and can’t live on my income/alimony while I get back into the workforce. Now what?
- How do we co-parent kindly?