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Ten Financial Tips for Women Seriously Considering Divorce

1. Get informed. In order to have an idea of where you stand financially after divorce you need to figure out your financial status as a married couple. Gather all of the documents pertaining to your assets and liabilities. Each current account statement, whether it’s reporting the mortgage balance, credit card balance, Individual Retirement Account value, student loan, etc.

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DeVos Hurts Special Needs Families

Education Secretary Betsy Devos eliminated 72 policy documents that outline the rights of students with disabilities. The documents fleshed out students’ rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Rehabilitation Act. The regulations were not rescinded, only the policy documents put into place to guide how schools could use federal special education money.…

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15 Photos Of Pets We Love Too Much

Today is National Love Your Pet Day and here at ModernMom, we’re like “Psssh, b*tch please,” because we already love our pets so impossibly much it almost seems silly to hold a one day celebration. It’s like having a National We Love Oxygen Day… duh.But who are we to dictate holiday law? And of course, any excuse to look at pictures of adorable puppies (and kittens and hedgehogs and bunnies and …