Jacqueline Wharton recently wrote this article for Mamamia about how to find your ‘perfect’ partner.
“I believe that instead of fixating on “what” your partner is (or should be) – blonde, educated, wealthy – it’s crucial to focus on “who” they are. More importantly, it’s critical that early on, you make an honest evaluation of how your partner makes you feel – and how you make them feel.
I call it the SEEK principle.”
Talk to anyone in the family law space and you will hear them referring to the festive season as the ‘Break Up Season’. After the summer holidays, family lawyers are inundated with new clients who have decided to separate over the festive season.
As a divorce advisor with over 15 years of experience, here are the main eight reasons so many relationships don’t make it past the new year.
Divorces involving couples over the age of 50 are increasing. Separation and Divorce Advisors’ Jacqueline Wharton recently sat down with reporter Duncan Hughes of the Australian Financial Review to look at some of the issues that should be considered before breaking the knot.
There appears to be a growing trend in couples divorcing later in life, often with devastating consequences, both emotionally and financially.
In this article, originally published in the Courier Mail, Separation and Divorce Advisors own Jacqueline Wharton says:
“…divorce is “most contagious” when adult children leave home, and near retirement age.
“People can go on different paths. And maybe they have been on different paths for a long time but the children are the glue that has kept them together,” she says.
“It’s often women around that age that leave. If the woman has been the primary caregiver and the children leave, there are a lot of question marks about her role. She starts to focus on herself and her own needs, probably for the first time since she had children.
“She’s raised the kids, she wants to be more independent, often to rediscover herself and build a new identity because her identity has been lost. Men have often had that time in their careers.’’
Jacqueline and Anna recently joined Managing Partner Sally Nicholes of Nicholes Family Lawyers in a podcast to discuss issues relevant to couples going through a separation or divorce during the COVID19 pandemic.
We are signed, done and dusted. I just wanted to say thanks for all your help through this stressful process. You hear horror stories about how legals play out and cause so much long term damage to your future relationships to your ex – let alone decimating your finances – and I’m just glad
