Episode 70: How to Divorce During a Pandemic with Erin Levine
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This week Erin Levine, entrepreneur, legal innovator, and Certified Family Law Specialist, joins me on the podcast. She's here to help close out Legal Month. (Don't worry, I'll surely be revisiting legal topics in the future!) Erin is the founder of Hello Divorce, a modern breakup service, offering affordable, convenient, and online divorce options. I'm thrilled to have Erin on the show.
Most of the world is in some form of lockdown right now. It feels like life is at a standstill for many. As I discussed a few weeks ago, you may be stuck and isolated with the person you have either asked for a divorce or were in the midst of divorce proceedings already.
So, now what? Do all the legal proceedings and preparation stop? Well, no.
In fact, in this episode, Erin shares several divorce planning strategies you can do while in the middle of a global pandemic. You can keep moving forward, even during times of uncertainty. In fact, the actions you take today can help you to feel empowered. Times feel scary and anxious right now, but you can still gain power, grow, and stretch yourself in meaningful, new ways.
Show Highlights
- Be aware of divorce legal companies' scams or misrepresentations. (7:11)
- How to know whether you should pause divorce proceedings or continue to move forward during a pandemic. (9:14)
- Now is an excellent time to reflect: Sometimes we need to sit back, take a deep breath, look at the facts and decide: was the settlement proposal previously made in my best interest? (11:00)
- If you don't have anything hammered out, it's important to put a temporary order in place, even just to get you through this period. (12:47)
- Get organized: see what it is you have, what you don't have, and what you need to get in order. (14:00)
- Get educated: what do you need to do in your state, and what does the entire divorce procedure look like where you're located? (16:00)
- Meet with a legal coach or a certified divorce financial analyst. (22:00)
- How to know when you should slow the process down and take a break. (30:11)
Learn More About Erin Levine:
Erin Levine is an entrepreneur, legal innovator, and Certified Family Law Specialist. She is the founder and CEO of Levine Family Law Group and Hello Divorce, a "modern breakup service" offering an affordable, convenient, and online divorce option. Erin is also the co-founder of Love & Real Life, a platform designed to empower women by helping them to craft postnuptial and prenuptial agreements that comport with their values and way of life. Her awarding winning legal technology and access to justice work has been recognized by the legal industry and beyond – with recent features in Above the Law, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Ozy, Brit + Co, and Mind Body Green.
Resources & Links:
Erin's website
Erin on Instagram
Erin on Twitter
Erin on Pinterest
Erin on Facebook
Erin on LinkedIn
The Ultimate Divorce Survival Guide
Should I Stay or Should I Go Facebook Group
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:17.7 | 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 side |
| 0:34.2 | of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:44.6 | Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast. How's it hanging in |
| 0:52.0 | pandemic land? I've been calling these pandemic podcasts because I'm no |
| 1:00.3 | longer going to my professional booth to record. And so you may hear birds chirping, |
| 1:07.9 | you may hear dogs barking, you may hear all sorts of things. And you know what? |
| 1:13.9 | The sound quality may not be as good as it has been for a while, but that's just kind of the way it |
| 1:18.9 | goes in a pandemic. And I hope you guys cut yourselves the same amount of slack. I really hope that you can just give yourself the gift of accepting that |
| 1:35.6 | you're doing the best you can right now. And that all of this is insane and that none of us has ever been |
| 1:41.8 | has ever been through anything like this before. None of us |
| 1:44.9 | knows how to do this. Nobody, like the courts don't know how to do this. If you're getting |
| 1:51.9 | divorced during a pandemic, like, even attorneys and courts, like we just know, we're all making it up as we go along, every one of us. |
| 2:03.3 | I'm making up how to podcast at home and run my business with my teenager at home. |
| 2:07.3 | And, you know, I'm lucky that I have a teenager. |
| 2:09.9 | I don't think I'd be able to be as productive as I am, which is much, by the way. |
| 2:16.2 | If I had a younger child. So if you've got young kids at home, |
| 2:21.3 | God bless you. This is not easy. And we all have to make really difficult choices and sacrifices |
| 2:28.7 | and all of that during this. And we're all just doing the best we can. So if you're sort of been really |
| 2:35.6 | hard on yourself about your work or your parenting or your ability to homeschool, like please, |
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