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The Real Cost Of A Divorce Goes Beyond The Pocketbook

by: AlexArcher
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We all hear it too often. Boy meets girl, both fall in love and decides to get married, down the road someone gets involved with an affair, one party is severely hurt by an affair and pushes for a divorce. Marriage ends and there goes another point to the board that says \"Happy Endings Are Myth\" and along with it paying the high cost of divorce, financially or emotionally.

Nowadays, divorce is so common that it's almost a household name. A divorce differs from an annulment in a way that divorce means an ending of marriage before death of either spouse while an annulment is a declaration making the marriage null and void in the first place.

Some married couples mistakenly view divorce as a magic solution to their relationship problems. Yet in most cases this isn't so and more disturbing is that they often jump to divorce without knowing the high cost of divorce, financially or emotionally.

Many people think a divorce will be over and done with quickly, and they can move on with their lives in little or no time. However, this is an misunderstanding of the complexity of the issue at hand; the average divorce usually takes about two years from beginning to end.

While hiring a person to represent you in divorce court can vary depending on the circumstances, the average figure thrown around to hire a good divorce attorney is usually $3,000 each for a one-day trial, more than most people originally expect. When you add in court fees and expert witnesses, that number quickly skyrockets.

Also, many people about to go through a divorce often underestimate the cost of splitting up that doesn't appear at first glance. New mortgage payments or rent, a change in car or health insurance, the cost of a move to a new city or region, and of course child support or alimony, can all make a divorce a very costly thing to endure financially.

Easily overlooked by many couples is the emotional toll they take from going through a divorce as well. A messy divorce can conceivably cause later psychological problems and leave people \"living in the past.\" Unresolved anger is often a result.

Another emotional cost a divorce process would be the avoidance of responsibility. At this phase, it is all too common to play the \"fault and blame\" game. Instead of taking responsibility of ones action, they result to blaming the other party to make themselves look as if they were the victim. In most cases this would only lead to feeling of helplessness and could easily slide to depression.

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