5 Job-Related Mistakes You May Make After a Divorce

The personal nature of divorce can significantly impact one's job performance and professional life. When these marital issues compound and become especially brutal, they can lead to unemployment and loss of income. It's important to stay on course and avoid the negative outcomes associated with these five ways divorce can affect your professional life:

Divorce May Affect Your Work Routine

Life after divorce includes big changes. While the negative aspects are often temporary, they can cause serious problems upfront. Change in sleep patterns, turmoil with custodial arrangements or child behavior, and even after-school or daycare schedules can throw off your work routine in a hurry. Being open at work (without sharing intimate details) can help you get through the challenging sea of change.

Emotional Trauma May Affect Your Professional Reputation

Emotional distress during divorce can lead to a breakdown that affects your professional life. It’s common to vent to friends and co-workers during this time to build and develop a support system. But all too often, the boss is left out of the loop. He or she may not know anything about the personal issues that result in legal meetings, real estate appraisals, school appointments, and custodial pickups falling during work hours. Not keeping your boss in the loop can be a mistake. If all he has to go on is your current performance, you could lose everything in the end… including your reputation. But if you come clean, your boss may be able to temporarily adjust your workload, suggest a more flexible schedule, or even offer you a more lucrative position to reflect and support your upcoming status.

Remarrying May Cause Career-Affecting Health Conditions

Every person experiences divorce differently. But most people will agree that the process is difficult, emotionally taxing, and sometimes notably painful. Mental and physical discomfort can include everything from setting up financial appointments, meeting paperwork or filing deadlines, and scheduling child visitations to migraines, weight issues, and even cardiovascular disease. In fact, a study in Journal of Health and Social Behaviour confirmed that divorce scars are so devastating that those who remarry had an increase in 12 percent chronic health concerns and 19 percent more mobility issues than those who remained in a continuous (i.e. healthy) marriage.

Ignoring Your Michigan Divorce Lawyer’s Financial Advice May Lead to Unemployment

Stress is a killer on its own. But when it’s combined with poor financial decisions during and following a divorce, the outcome can be disastrous. Perhaps you've decided, for emotional reasons, to keep the family home you know you can’t afford. Or maybe you forgot to get your name off of your ex-spouse’s credit cards before calling it quits. Maybe you even failed to secure spousal or child support even though your Michigan divorce attorney has stressed the importance of doing so. Poor financial planning can affect performance at work and lead to needing to pick up a second or third job just to make ends meet; the latter of which can unduly affect your performance within your highest paid position.

Retirement Benefits May Drastically Drop

There’s no "average" time frame of marriage before divorce is considered or secured. Some relationships last 20 years, while others are lucky to withstand 20 days. Certainly, you got married hoping it would last forever. Well, the good news is that if you managed to stay married at least 10 years and divorced for two years before retirement, you can claim a divorced spousal benefit. The bad news, however, is that if you've been married less than a decade, you’re up the creek in that department. So as long as the marriage is still healthy, try holding out for that 10-year benefit mark.

Divorcing? Contact your Michigan divorce attorney to find out how to protect your professional life.

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Michigan Divorce Help
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