Author: Gail Vaz-Oxlade

Tune In! Toronto Speaks: Legal Advice

Darren Gingras, Divorce Consultant and Co-Founder of the Common Sense Divorce, and Seema Jain, lawyer and accredited mediator, answer your calls, tweets and emails. The Common Sense Divorce team is doing what I hoped to achieve through the show: to make sense of an emotionally difficult time, while protecting your rights, your pocketbook and your sanity.

Five ways to reduce the cost of divorce

Darren Gingras, President of The Common Sense Divorce gives his top five ways to reduce the costs of a divorce:
1. Keep it amicable
2. Understand your financial present and future
3. Check your interactions with your lawyer
4. Consider mediation
5. Find a collaborative lawyer

Avoid These Dumb Divorce Mistakes

People make all sorts of costly divorce mistakes. Many are the result from a lack of good old-fashioned common sense fuelled by unrestrained emotions.

The Late Shift with Gail Vaz-Oxlade: Top 5 Dumb Divorce Mistakes

Gail Vaz-Oxlade and Darren Gingras (President of The Common Sense Divorce) discuss their Top 5 Dumb Divorce Mistakes.

1. Putting your lawyer on speed dial
2. Hiding assets
3. Using custody as a weapon against your spouse
4. “Creeping” your spouse on social media
5. Not knowing what debt has your name on it

Original Airdate: February 18, 2014

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Talking to Kids about Divorce

If you are considering divorce, you are likely concerned about the effect it will have on your kids. Your children may feel sad, confused, angry, guilty or worried about what will happen. How you handle the changes will be important for your child’s well-being.

Keep Divorce Out of Court: The average contested divorce costs $15,570

Gail Vaz-Oxlade explains the financial impact of a contested divorce on the average Canadian and explains how The Common Sense Divorce can help avoid making mistakes: “One of the best ways to stay out of court is to have a good team behind you. I got involved with The Common Sense Divorce because its great dedicating to helping people going through divorce reduce the financial costs and the emotional trauma. As my partner Darren Gingras says, “We walk people from grief to relief.””

The Late Shift with Gail Vaz-Oxlade: Talking to CSD Client “Daphne*”

Darren Gingras and Gail Vaz-Oxlade talk to Common Sense Divorce client “Daphne,” the very first client to complete The Common Sense Divorce process.

Don’t Doom Your Budget! Conduct Your Spending Analysis First

Don’t Doom Your Budget! Conduct Your Spending Analysis First The foundation of any budget that WORKS is a ‘Spending Analysis.’ A Spending Analysis (or financial analysis), is a snapshot of your cashflow over a specific period of time. A spending analysis is like a Polaroid –  it takes some time to develop and maybe a shake or […]

The Late Shift with Gail Vaz-Oxlade: Finalizing Your Uncontested Divorce

Gail Vaz-Oxlade and Darren Gingras discuss the importance of finalizing your Uncontested Divorce.

Original Airdate: July 8, 2013

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10 Reasons to Finalize Your Uncontested Divorce

Many people Separate, but do not actually complete the Uncontested Divorce process. There are a number of reasons to finalize your divorce, but here are a few notable reasons that you may not have thought of.