You might not have had to balance the family budget before separation, but once you're down to a single income juggling child support and household bills, it is easy to fall behind. Below are some simple tips to get you back on track.
Post-separation emotional rollercoaster
Getting organized after a divorce or separation
In any relationship, someone usually takes the role of organizing finances, social calendars, the grocery list and the children. So if you're faced with separation, a big struggle is getting organized if you weren't this person. Below are just a few things that usually get missed when separating:
1. Take your name off bills: If you are leaving the home, once you separate officially, you have to remove yourself from the bills, otherwise you are equally accountable if they are not paid...
Feeling guilty is natural but is it realistic?
Children don't forget the fights
We've all done it. Let our anger fly and throw a barrage of spiteful words at our partner in front of the kids. Even behind closed doors, we know they can hear everything, so why do we do it? ‘Children are like emotional Geiger counters,” says E. Mark Cummings, psychologist at Notre Dame University, who, along with colleagues, has published hundreds of papers over twenty years on the subject.
What to do with your Australian Medicare account after you separate
There are hundreds of items to action when you separate so we reached out to our pre-launch registered users to find out what questions they needed answers to. One was what to do with your Australian Medicare account after you separate? With no details online, we went directly to the Department of Human Services to get the correct answers.
Divvito, sounds like DeVito and Divito – the true meaning
Introducing Divvito, sounds like DeVito and Divito, but means so much more. Why was our name so important to us? That's like saying why was your baby's name so important? Firstly, our company will have it for the rest of it's life and secondly it's because we want it to mean something, to stand for what values and virtues we hold so highly …