Divorce Magazine is a self-help magazine and website that provides information and advice on all areas of separation and divorce, including legal and financial issues, emotional and physical health, parenting and stepparenting, post-divorce relationships and remarriage, mediation and collaborative divorce, divorce resources, divorce in the news, and other topics.

The magazine is based in Toronto, Canada, with separate regional editions for Southern California, Illinois, New York State and New Jersey, Texas and Florida as well as the Greater Toronto Area. The website includes sections for every state and province in North America.

Past contributors to the magazine include Ivana Trump,^[1] and John Gray.^[2] Since August 2008, the magazine has run a regular column by Divorce Courts Judge Lynn Toler, who also provides answers to an advice column on DivorceMagazine.com^[3]. The website, DivorceMagazine.com, features an archive of all past articles as well as information on divorce professionals in the United States and Canada, numerous Frequently Asked Questions, polls, an online forum, a free monthly newsletter, and celebrity-divorce news stories.

History

The publication was launched as a quarterly magazine in March 1996 in Ontario Canada by publisher Dan Couvrette and then editorial director Diana Shepherd. Dan Couvrette was the publisher and part owner of a Canadian wedding magazine called Wedding Bells.^[4] The New York, Illinois and Southern California editions began soon afterward^[5]. The Texas and Florida editions were launched in 2003.

The magazine's mission is to have divorce be peaceful and civilized. It was inspired in part by Couvrette's own divorce^[6]. At the same time, Shepherd was dating a man who had recently divorced. Both Shepherd and Couvrette found that there were no magazines and relatively few books on the market tackling divorce. "We thought if we needed information," Shepherd said, "other people would too. We started the magazine for people in the same boat as us."^[7]

Couvrette has stressed that the purpose of the magazine and website are to help people get through the divorce experience with the least emotional and financial damage. "I'm definitely not encouraging people to get divorced. I encourage people to get help. Talk to your rabbi, your priest, your parents or your therapist; read books, practice meditation, whatever it takes."^[8]

Today, the magazine is owned by Dan Couvrette and his second wife, Martha Chan. It continues to be devoted to the subject of divorce and separation, and educate couples on peaceful divorce options including mediation and collaborative divorce. It prints all six regional editions semiannually and, as of October 2006, had a circulation of approximately 125,000.^[9] The website has received more than 10 million visits since 1996.^[10] Around 80% of magazine copies are available for free at the offices of divorce professionals, such as lawyers, accountants, therapists and Certified Divorce Financial Planners.

References

External links

• Divorce Magazine's website

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