GUEST BLOG - Audra Holbeck, JD
Attorney, Holbeck Law Office
Original Post September 2016
Collaborative Law Institute of Minnesota
THE DIVORTEX
VORTEX:
1) a whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it towards its center; or
2) a place or situation regarded as drawing into its center all that it surrounds, and hence, being inescapable or destructible
Sound familiar? It’s tornado season, so many of us in the Midwest think of a tornado when we think of a vortex. Regardless of where you live, if you are going through a divorce, this definition might sound like something you experience rather than something you see, and so, the term Divortex seems appropriate......READ MORE/LEAVE A COMMENT
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