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The first round of edits on my book are due July 15. I'm on a Book Writing Lockdown, so for the next couple weeks, this blog is going to be brief. But helpful.
This week, I want to share a great piece about the online divorce service Wevorce that appeared on “Note to Self,” a tech-focused podcast on WNYC.org with host Manoush Zomorodi.
Technology has improved divorce in many ways. You can look up child- and spousal-support guidelines online, download forms, and learn about the law in your state without ever leaving your house. This ability to get informed up front, without immediately spending the time and money on a lawyer can appease fear and give you a sense of control—both of which can translate into a calmer, kinder parting.
You can find mediators, collaborative lawyers, mental health professionals and financial planners online, too, as well as someone to replace your tennis partner or cooking buddy, a.k.a. your former spouse. You can chat with other solo parents on sites such as babycenter.com, order “Just Divorced!” announcement cards on places such as Etsy or Zazzle, or look at dresses and cake styles for your divorce party on Pinterest. You can swipe right on any number of possible new suitors.
There are new apps too, such as ones for co-parenting that help you schedule, share photos and track your finances.
What else could you possibly need?
Perhaps an algorithm to “crunch the numbers” of your emotional makeup or “divorce archetype,” and help steer you toward the right dissolution professional to match your style?
That was the idea Michelle Crosby, CEO of Wevorce. Wevorce is another holistic, mediation-based approach to divorce (much like DivorceHotel, which I’ve covered). These are among the new attempts to bring in mental health, financial and legal professionals to help you unwed without going to war. The intention is directly in line with the aims of the legal and psychological innovators working in the field of divorce, those who are part of what University of Maryland School of Law’s Jana Singer has termed the “Velvet Revolution”—a kinder, gentler, problem-solving approach to divorce proceedings.
Great ambition, but can a computer steer you toward happily ever, after divorce? Take a look at this piece and share your thoughts here. Or write to me at wendyparis.com.
And now, back to the book . . .
