My story
I learned how these cases work in the hardest way possible — by living it.
For 20 years, I poured myself into my family. After graduating from college with a Masters degree, I set aside having a career to raise and homeschool my three children, and I believed that work mattered — because it did.
Then my marriage ended, and not quietly. What followed was three years of one of the most contested kinds of divorce there is — the kind that goes all the way to a jury trial. My finances were deliberately dismantled. Support, including for the children, went unpaid. I learned, the hard way, what it feels like to be told you're supposed to stand on your own immediately — with no recent résumé, no roadmap, and a war still going on inside you and around you.
I also learned how these cases actually work: the documentation that matters, the strategy, the moments when fear makes you want to fire back, and the discipline it takes not to. I made it through. And then I got certified as a high-conflict divorce coach — because I never want someone else to walk through that maze as blindly as I had to.
This is my calling now: to be the person in your corner, I wish I'd had.