Episode 184: High Conflict Legal Q&A with Susan Guthrie, Esq.
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week we are talking about the legal aspect of high conflict divorce. When it comes to divorce, what most talk about from a legal sense isn't applicable to those navigating a divorce with an abuser or high-conflict person. That's why I asked my good friend, Susan Guthrie, Esq., to come back to the show and share what she knows about legal issues surrounding high-conflict situations.
Divorce is hard, divorce with a high conflict person is a completely different ball game. Listen to this episode to hear how to maneuver the legal system when divorcing an abusive or high-conflict spouse.
Show Highlights
- The tools do not exist in the legal system to change the behavior of a high-conflict person, but there are resources available that can help you protect yourself (6:09)
- High conflict people are unmanageable (11:37)
- Susan answers, "Can you mediate with someone who is actively lying and/or hiding assets?" (14:28)
- Why Susan says a consulting attorney is a necessity for the mediation process (19:01)
- When you are mediating or litigating with a high-conflict person, you move in small, purposeful steps (23:35)
- How to cope when an ex-spouse backs out of mediation at the last minute. Plus, what you can do from a legal perspective (33:48)
Learn more about Susan:
Susan Guthrie, nationally recognized as one of the Top Family Law Attorneys and Mediators in the country, has been helping individuals and families navigate separation and divorce for more than 30 years. Susan provides online divorce and legal coaching services to select clients around the world. As a leading dispute resolution professional, Susan is honored to serve on the Executive Council of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Dispute Resolution as the Budget Officer and to be a Co-Chair of the Advanced Mediation Institute.
In 2021 Susan launched her fresh and inspiring podcast, The Divorce & Beyond Podcast with Susan Guthrie, Esq. which debuted on iTunes "Top Podcasts" List for self-help podcasts and which is one of the Top 1.5 % of All Podcasts worldwide! Divorce & Beyond is focused on pulling back the curtain on the mysteries of the divorce process and bringing tips and resources to help people to thrive and shine in their new future beyond divorce.
Susan has been featured in and on media outlets such as CNBC, Market Watch, News Nation, Forbes, the ABA's Just Resolutions Magazine, Thrive Global, Medium, and many more.
She is licensed to practice law in the States of California and Connecticut as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Resources & Links:
Information and links may also be found at: https://kateanthony.com/podcast/high-conflict-legal-qa-with-susan-guthrie-esq
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question of all, should you stay or should you go. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 0:33.9 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:41.5 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. I'm super excited about our episode today. I brought back my dear |
| 0:49.6 | friend Susan Guthrie, who I'm always, always thrilled to talk to, any excuse, to talk to Susan. |
| 0:58.2 | And we're talking about all things high conflict and the legal, in the legal sense. |
| 1:04.7 | We do a lot of conversations about high conflict relationships and divorce and all sorts of |
| 1:10.4 | stuff from the emotional aspect |
| 1:11.5 | on this show. But I wanted to talk about some of the legal stuff because I get so many questions. |
| 1:17.4 | And so much of what people talk about legally just doesn't apply to so many of you. |
| 1:25.3 | So I wanted to ask the expert. And so I did. And just a, just a quick, |
| 1:36.2 | one more plug. We start grit and grace next week. We already have an amazing lineup of women. |
| 1:43.9 | We do still have a couple spots available. So if you're |
| 1:48.0 | interested in grit and grace, please head over to my website, Kateanthony.com, click on coaching, |
| 1:54.5 | and you will find everything you need to know about my group program that is starting on |
| 1:59.2 | September 15th. |
| 2:03.9 | And it's rolling enrollment. |
| 2:05.4 | So you can join at any time. |
| 2:06.4 | If you miss the deadline, |
| 2:09.2 | if you're listening to this sometime in the next month or so when you're like, |
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