{"id":491,"date":"2016-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/helping-your-homeless-former-spouse\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T00:00:00","slug":"helping-your-homeless-former-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/helping-your-homeless-former-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Your Homeless Former Spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Ed: Originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YourPostDivorceCompass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>I had a former client approach me with a somewhat unusual situation: her ex-husband was kicked out of his apartment and had nowhere to go. She knows it&#8217;s not her problem, but at the same time she felt some pity for him, and besides she certainly doesn&#8217;t want their children&#8217;s father to be homeless. So she let him stay with her for a few weeks, until his next apartment is ready, which won&#8217;t be until the first of next month.<\/p>\n<p>I advised her to be really, really careful about being<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0clear with him that he is a temporary guest and she expects him to clear out on the date they agreed. I also advised her to consider involving a counselor in a frank and open discussion with the children, so they could ask questions and work out any confusion they might be feeling over the fact that all of a sudden, mom and dad are under the same roof again.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>&#8220;Your Post-Divorce Compass&#8221; is about how to set up your post-divorce life, separate from your former spouse. Advice like this is unusual and certainly wouldn&#8217;t be found in the book, but the book does have a lot of useful information about how to keep moving forward in your newfound independence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Ed: Originally published on\u00a0Facebook.] I had a former client approach me with a somewhat unusual situation: her ex-husband was kicked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}