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Check out the article about divorce counseling in the personal Journal section of the April 3, 2012 issue of the Wall Street journal: www.wsj.com.

Instead of the normal couples counseling aimed at resolving issues and preserving the relationship, there is a new method called “discernment counseling” the goal of which appears to be to focus on the decision to divorce itself and if that is the decision, how to make it least painful or stressful for the one left behind.

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Jeff Murphy

Jeff Murphy is a trained mediator and an attorney with over 35 years of business, civil and commercial legal experience. He was born and raised in New York CIty where he attended Columbia and Fordham. He ventured westward to join The Upjohn Company years ago and served as Senior Counsel… MORE >

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