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Your Home During a Divorce: When It Comes To Patient Care,

To Sell or Not To Sell Learn What Not To Do

If you were to ask five different lawyers what So here I am at the delayed and I need to
to do with your home during the divorce, you airport. I had to get up look at other options. As
would receive five different answers. So how extra early to catch an I talk on the phone, I can
do you decide what the best course of action is early flight from Fort see the line forming at
during your divorce when deciding what to do Lauderdale to Philadel - the counter as each cus-
with the marital residence? phia for a number of tomer tries to assess if the
First, you figure out your viable options. business meetings. flight is going to be can-
Second, you decide what is the best decision Typically I arrive about celled or not … We have
for your family. If your marital residence con- an hour before which I all been through it.
sumed over 40% of your family take home pay, feel allows me the per- Gut check for every-
it is likely that you cannot afford to continue fect amount of time one. When things go off
supporting your marital residence and another from the car to the gate track in your organiza-
home during and after the divorce, so selling it (not to fast, not to tion, does it resemble the
may be the best option. BY ANGELA R. NEAVE, slow). At 6:15 a.m., BY JAY JUFFRE airlines?
If you have sufficient income to continue ESQUIRE the time we are sup- It’s all routine unless
supporting the marital residence while also posed to be boarding, something goes wrong
paying for a second home, then you might the announcement is made that the and then no one knows what is going
consider when the best time is to sell your residence. It may be during the flight is inevitably delayed due to a on.
summer when home buyers are looking in your neighborhood because of the mechanical issue. The woman making Mixed messages are everywhere and
great schools, or it may be during the winter if you live near the beach when the announcement admits she has no if you ask three people the same ques-
demand is higher for your location. This decision is best made after consult- clue what the issue is, just that there is tion, expect three different responses.
ing a realtor and determining when is the best time to put your house on the a delay, and “they are thinking it will When it comes to patient care, it is
market. take until 9 a.m. …” important to know what to do when
Many homeowners make the mistake of wanting to keep the house for the As a frequent traveler, I have heard things go sideways.
children. This is an emotional decision. If you are keeping the home for the this tune before. The predictable exas- Put plans in place to make sure there
children but it is not easily affordable after a separation, you are simply cre- perated gasp comes from the folks is an easy way to get everyone on the
ating financial hardship for yourself, and keeping the home may not be the waiting and the board at the counter same page. It will go a long way to
best decision for your family. However, if you have negative equity in your still reads on time, prompting the same avoid the equivalent of a broken plane
residence, it might make the most financial sense to keep it until your equity “we are delayed, but have no real clue for your patients and their families.
has increased. Whatever your decision is, it should be made after speaking when the plane will be fixed
to an attorney who can advise you of your options. announcement.” Jay Juffre is Vice President of
Usually when these announcements Operations / National Service Director,
If you are considering a divorce and want to discuss your options with an attor- come, I speed dial the airlines and try ImageFIRST. For more information on
ney, call Angela R. Neave, Esquire at (954) 981-2200 for a free consultation. to convince them that despite what ImageFIRST, call 1-800-932-7472 or visit
their computer is showing, the flight is www.imagefirst.com.

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