Tips From A Divorce Lawyer If You Are Leaving Or Staying With Your Partner Who Suffers From Addiction
Love Over Addiction
Michelle Anderson
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When you love someone suffering from addiction, any kind of addiction like alcohol, illegal drugs, prescription pills, gambling, pornography, or sex, among others, it's important to know your options. You deserve to be educated and be able to protect yourself in any situation.
Today we interview matrimonial lawyer Kara Bellew to discuss what the divorce process looks like. Even if you’re choosing to stay and have no plans on leaving the one you love, we encourage you to listen to this episode and hear what Kara has to say.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- How to choose the right lawyer
- What to expect in your initial consultation with a divorce lawyer
- How to protect your children and what to expect your family dynamic to look like while going through separation or divorce
Read our blog at https://loveoveraddiction.com/tips-from-a-divorce-lawyer-if-youre-leaving-or-staying-with-your-partner-who-suffers-from-addiction/
If you want to learn more about the Love Over Addiction program, visit us at http://TheLoveOverWay.com/programs/love-over-addiction
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Michelle Anderson, and I am so glad that you are with us today. |
| 0:07.0 | So, for those of you that are new or haven't listed in a while, you'll probably notice that we changed our name. |
| 0:14.7 | We went from being called the Wife of an Alcoholic Podcast to Love Over Addiction Podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | And the reason we did that is because we recognized that not everybody in |
| 0:26.1 | our community is a wife and number two the world of addiction is voicing their opinion that they don't want to be called addicts or |
| 0:37.3 | alcoholics. |
| 0:38.8 | And because we as a community are dignified and always respectful of the ones we love, we decided that we would |
| 0:47.6 | change our name and follow their wishes. |
| 0:51.9 | So it's now called the Love Over Addiction |
| 0:55.0 | podcast, which I like better anyways because we have a website at love |
| 1:00.6 | over addiction.com that is full of free resources and programs and |
| 1:08.0 | amazing women from all around the world. So I hope that you check that out, love over addiction.com. |
| 1:16.0 | And for today we are going to do something new. |
| 1:20.5 | We are going to be interviewing several amazing men and women who are not necessarily in the field of addiction, |
| 1:36.7 | but people that I think you need to know, that have wisdom that as somebody who loves someone suffering from addiction, you need to hear from. And today we are going to be talking to one of those people. Her |
| 1:49.0 | name is Kara Belu and I adore her. She is a kick butt attorney in Manhattan. Her law firm is called |
| 2:00.3 | Rower. You can find her at Roer LLC.com and she not only has been practicing family |
| 2:08.7 | law since 2005. She was named a rising star in family law by New York super lawyers in 2015 and |
| 2:18.3 | 16. She's a seasoned litigator and a trained mediator. |
| 2:24.0 | But what I love about her most is her history. |
| 2:30.0 | When she first started practicing law, |
| 2:32.0 | she worked for the sanctuary for families, which is a center for |
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