Episode 299: Not All Bad: A Nuanced Perspective on Family Court with Susan Guthrie, Esq. (Family Court Awareness Month)
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
I'm so excited to welcome back my dear friend and returning guest, Susan Guthrie, a leading family law attorney and mediator, for a robust conversation about the family court system. While family court often gets a bad rap (and yes, it needs reform), Susan and I dig into why it's not always terrible. There is good that can come from it too.
Together, we're breaking down what you can expect if you navigate the family court process, how to prepare for it, and how to make decisions that truly serve you and your kids. We're also diving into the hot topic of no-fault divorce laws: Could they be repealed? And what would that mean for families going forward?
What You'll Hear:
- Why family court is necessary and not always the "necessary evil" it's made out to be (7:09)
- What most people can expect from the family court system (12:50)
- How to prepare for your day in court, including what serves you and what doesn't (17:25)
- The likelihood of no-fault divorce laws being repealed and the potential implications (34:13)
Learn more about Susan Guthrie:
Susan Guthrie has been one of the leading family law attorneys and mediators in the country for more than 30 years and a world-wide expert in online mediation and she has trained over 20,000 professionals in the ethical and practical considerations in transitioning to a virtual practice. In late 2020, Susan and legal legend Forrest "Woody" Mosten partnered together to found the Mosten Guthrie Academy to provide top of the line training for mediators and collaborative professionals in a virtual format world-wide. Her award-winning podcast, The Divorce & Beyond Podcast, is one of the top 1% of podcasts worldwide and she is known to millions of listeners around the world as the "divorce voice you can trust!"
Resources & Links:
Unbreakable - the Divorce Recovery Retreat, Sedona, AZ in April 2025
Focused Strategy Sessions with Kate
Phoenix Rising: A Divorce Empowerment Collective
Susan on Instagram @susanguthrieesq and @divorceandbeyond
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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. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back. So I'm super excited about today's episode because I got to have a |
| 0:53.4 | conversation with one of my favorite people |
| 0:55.1 | in the world, my dear friend Susan Guthrie. We're going to get to that in a second. First, I want to |
| 1:00.5 | tell you guys that I am finally going to be hosting another retreat. You may or may not recall |
| 1:09.6 | that my last retreat was in the spring of 2023, I believe. And so we're going to be doing it again. And it is going to be in the spring of 2025. I am super, super excited about this. It's been a long time coming. This is a retreat for |
| 1:32.0 | women who are going through divorce. It is a divorce recovery retreat. I've named it |
| 1:37.6 | unbreakable. Look, we all know that divorce is, it's exhausting, it's mentally exhausting, |
| 1:43.6 | emotionally, physically. And it is also so |
| 1:47.4 | isolating. And we can feel so drained from the endless emotional battles and just all of the |
| 1:56.6 | grief and the yada, yada, yada, yada. So in this retreat, it's going to be in Sedona, |
| 2:04.5 | Arizona, which is a healing vortex. You're going to be able to join together with women who |
| 2:13.7 | understand your journey. And you will have the space to rest, recover, reconnect. |
| 2:19.9 | It's an amazing time, I will tell you, that the women who attended the last retreat |
| 2:26.8 | are still in touch. |
| 2:28.6 | It's almost two years later. |
| 2:30.2 | They are still in touch with each other. |
| 2:32.2 | They have a text threat. |
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