It is the beginning of a new year.  For each new year comes our best intentions in the form of New Year's resolutions.  Among those resolutions are the ones that deal with self-care and self-help.

            This is a busy, hurly-burly world where parents have increasing demands and pressures placed upon them.  Those pressures increase when you are going through a divorce.  The Verywell Family magazine recently provided a number of ways in which parents may reinvigorate and refresh themselves.  They include:

On January 1^st of each year, the majority of people wish each other a Happy New Year.  However, among divorce attorneys, January 1 commences an upsurge in the filings and potential clients seeking to file for divorce.  Divorce attorneys are kept busy after the holidays.  While it is not an official designation the way that Women's History Month is, January has earned this nickname in the legal circles.

            Among the many reasons for the increase in divorce filings in January are the following:

2015 marks the first year that same-sex marriages have been legal in the State of Florida. Accordingly, it also marks the first year that same-sex divorces have been legal in the Sunshine State.

Divorce attorneys were surprised to hear that a same-sex divorce was granted in Wyoming earlier this week. Same-sex dissolutions of marriage can challenge the legal system, especially in states like Florida that do not recognize same-sex marriages.