What’s Different About Divorce on the Upper East Side?

Divorce on the upper east side

Wealth, luxury, affluence . . . these are words that often come to mind when thinking about Manhattan’s UES.  A unique neighborhood with a culture all it’s own, everything is different — or so some people think — when you reside here.  Christopher Cameron of Luxury Listings Magazine asks SAS if divorce on the Upper East Side is…

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How I Faked It Through My Divorce

“You have such a beautiful life,” a friend once said to me. I almost congratulated myself.  She didn’t know. I had done such a good job of faking, this friend did not know how dark and deep down desperate I was. For I had all the tchotchkes, the frequent flyer miles, the beautiful homes, but…

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4 Steps That Actually TRAIN Your Brain to Choose Happiness

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Stop psyching yourself out of happiness. Can you “decide” to feel truly happy? According to research from the Mayo clinic, the answer is a resounding yes! Great, right? According to the study, the key to happiness is to focus your attention on the positive. Simple, got it.  But wait … it’s not that easy, is it? (Or we’d…

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New York Times: “How to Divorce” is Changing for Women

Finding light in your divorce story

The “newspaper of record,” the New York Times is shedding light on how to divorce and how it’s changing. Women are no longer navigating it alone in a desperate, anxiety-ridden journey. Allying themselves with a partner, a team, a tribe, women are moving through this major life-challenge differently. Read about SAS in Penelope Green’s NYTimes piece, A New Cadre…

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8 Things Divorced Moms Want Divorcing Moms to Know

Does it seem like your life will never, ever get better? With each day and each new challenge you face, does it feel like every single solution centers on you? How can you possibly tackle all of these challenges, when you don’t know the first thing about what you are doing right now? You are…

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Thinking About Divorce? Important Steps to Be Prepared

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Divorce or separation tends to be one of those situations that women don’t plan for because, well, we don’t want to assume the worst. We operate under the assumption that everything will be fine. It’s when things suddenly aren’t fine and we start thinking about divorce that we realize, in hindsight of course, that we could have taken some…

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Understand Your Divorce Attorney: A Glossary of Legal Terms

Sometimes do you feel that the kind of divorce help you need means hiring a translator? Do your eyes glaze over as soon as your divorce attorney starts talking?  Does it sound like s/he is speaking Latin? You aren’t alone. Divorce is complicated and the law does have a very specific language. But that doesn’t mean you…

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