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Woman blames Facebook for divorce

Story by Mike Parker/WBBM

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Some people get so obsessed with social media that it can cost them their marriage.

Divorce, as a result of Facebook or Twitter, is a growing problem.

Shari knows it well.  While married with two kids, she got hooked on Facebook.

"I was spending sometimes four or five hours a day when I should've been cooking dinner or reading to my kids or watching a movie with my husband or just talking to my husband," said Shari.

She acquired 5,000 Facebook friends and 1,000 followers over time.

Gradually, her husband found out she had been trading messages with her ex-boyfriends when the battles began.

The marriage ended, and it's not the only one.

A survey by CensusWide suggests one divorce in seven is the result of social media.

"That sounds very low to me, to be honest," said Christine Svenson, a divorce lawyer.  "The social media world seems to crop up in at least half of my divorce cases," she said.

Shari is working to tame her obsession.

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Divorce could hurt your retirement

By Daily Mail

 

INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPERS A divorce can negatively impact on your retirement income by as much as 13 percent.

London – The cost of divorce can wreck retirement many years after the break-up of a marriage, according to research.

People who have never been divorced can expect a retirement income 13 percent higher than a colleague who has been through a divorce.

It means an extra £2,100 a year – £17,800 rather than £15,700 – to anyone who has kept their marriage intact, or who has never married, according to the survey for the Prudential.

Apart from the costs of supporting a former partner who is bringing up their children, a divorced man or woman faces giving up a share of their pension when they retire through ‘pension-splitting’ arrangements.

New type of divorce sweeping the country

Story by Mary Quinn O’Connor/CBS12

 Karen Coleman has heard horror stories about the divorce process.

So when she filed, she knew exactly what she didn't want.

"I was dreading the process. I knew it had potential to be very adversarial,” says Coleman.

So, she reached out to attorney Kim Nutter, who heads a group called The South Palm Beach County Collaborative Law Group.

A collaborative divorce is exactly what she got.

“They are trying to guide you to a resolution as opposed to gearing you up for a fight.”

Typically there are three traditional ways to get a divorce: do it yourself, through a mediator or through litigation.

Kim Nutter says a collaborative divorce is a happy medium between mediation and litigation and it's sweeping the country.

“In a traditional divorce, people takes positions and they dig in their heels,” says Nutter.  “You choose a collaborative divorce if you want to maintain some type of relationship," adds Nutter.

There are key differences between a litigated divorce and a collaborative divorce.

A litigated divorce can cost hundreds of thousands, even millions.

But, a collaborative divorce typically stays in the tens of thousands of dollars.

A litigated divorce can take years; a collaborative, just a few months.

The biggest difference, however, is everything is done outside of the courtroom.

“There is a better way to do it, a way that still allows disclosure and will do less harm to a family,” says Nutter.

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