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Divorce 'Expo' Eases Stress of Breaking Up!

“The Starting Over Show,” an event dubbed as Ontario's Divorce and Separation Expo are being staged across the province to give separating and newly single people access to the professional services needed to move on with life.

"When I first separated, it was horrible!  I didn’t know where to turn, who to talk to and how to move forward.  Along with my self esteem, my finances were devastated and my credit was severely damaged. I was seeing a lot of my friends going through the same as me and yet there was very little help available.  What shocked me was that there was really no one place to seek out help for ALL of the issues I was facing!!”

“The Starting Over Show” offers information on coping with stress, dealing with children and legalities and advice on various issues such as finances, credit counseling and property issues.

“Divorce and Separation is not just about the obvious legal documents and child custody issues,” says Carol Matthews, event coordinator, but it is also about financial issues, coordinating the move, maintaining your credit, and ultimately reinventing yourself as a single person again.”

According to Stats Canada almost 80,000 Canadian couples divorce each year, as well as thousands of co-habiting couples.  People are needing to extricate themselves from joint finances, real estate, investments and lives.  

Divorce is one of the top contributors to Bankruptcy, credit damage and stress induced health issues.  The Starting Over Show will host hourly Seminars addressing such issues. “Often people who are separating or divorcing think they need a lawyer, but they don't think about the need for a home appraiser, tax planner, moving company, realtor etc.,” says Ms. Matthews.  “The goal of the fair is to bring together all kinds of professionals and services that people WILL need when they are facing a divorce or separation.”

"We are most certainly not promoting divorce or separation,"said Darren Gingras, President of Canadian Separation Services, a sponsor of The Starting Over Show, "instead we recognize that Divorce and Separation is a very stressful period in individual’s lives and we are making the professional services and options available to individuals in one location.” "It is about bringing together experts who will help people get through a break-up in the best way possible.