How can counseling help your marriage? Charlotte divorce lawyer Ketan Soni and Raleigh divorce lawyer Lee Rosen join us to talk about attending counseling with your spouse when considering divorce.

What are the ramifications of signing a separation agreement? Raleigh divorce lawyer Lee Rosen joins us to talk about what signing a separation agreement entails and what to take into account when considering a separation agreement.

Rosen Law Firm hosts a weekly live call-in show every Wednesday at 11 a.m. on NC Divorce Talk Radio called Rosen Live. Listeners can have their questions answered live on the show on topics regarding alimony, child support, separation, and other family issues while also listening to licensed attorneys discuss new and emerging legal issues.

The program is hosted by Lee Rosen, founder and president of Rosen, and features guest attorneys from the firm who discuss current topics in family law and answer listener questions on the air. For those tuning into the show, an embedded video-stream will appear on the homepage 15 minutes before the show’s start time.

To have your questions answered on the show, please call 919-256-1552 or ask your questions in the live chat room below the video window.

The next Rosen Live takes place on Wednesday, July 23, at 11 a.m.

It can be challenging to know how to support a friend or family member going through a divorce.

Below are a few tips from some experts on how to lend a hand to those going through a divorce:

1) If you were friends with both spouses before the marriage, try not to take sides, especially if there are kids in the picture. Experts suggest remaining neutral.

2) Ask how you can help. Be available to listen or just be a shoulder they can lean on.

3) Avoid comments like, “Your better off without him!” They need the opportunity to grieve and heal and comments like these usually make it worse.

4) Don’t try to set them up with a new partner to help fix things because the healing process takes a while, some longer than others.

Anyone who is recently divorced may be wondering when it’s appropriate to bring up their past with future partners. Experts say save your stories from your previous marriage until your new relationship actually becomes serious.

According to a Dutch study conducted this year, divorce reduces one’s chances of having a new, successful relationship (slightly more for women than for men).

This Sunday, The New York Times Magazine will be running an interesting feature on couples’ therapy debating whether or not some marriages can really be saved through counseling.

The online version is already up here.

Here’s a quote from the writer, Laurie Abraham, ” But what I discovered sitting in on this couples group for a year is that every family is unhappy in its own way – its own peculiar, layered, internally contradictory, often surprising way. “