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Consulting couples to select the best inventory
On a number of occasions our office staff have been asked which inventory
is best to use with a couple who had been living together for a considerable
time and who have children living with them from both their previous marriages.
One administrator wondered if he should use ENRICH as the best inventory.
Such couples potentially fit into three inventory categories:
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PREPARE-CC as they are cohabiting,
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PREPARE-MC as they are a blending family,
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ENRICH as they had been living together for a considerable time.
As they are not an obvious fit in any one particular category, it might
be a good thing to confer with the couple as to what they particularly
would like to focus on in their relationship - living together issues,
issues associated with the blending of their families or relationship strengthening
and enrichment. In the light of this discussion, the best inventory
to suit this focus may be selected (as listed above).
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News Update:
The December 2006 issue of the Newsletter, the Prepare Diary,
is available on this web site: To read, click on: December
2006 Diary The next newsletter will be posted in
mid-June.
PROCESSING FEE NOW $44.00
This is the first increase in the base cost of processing since 1999.
Our aim is to maintain the new processing charge for a lengthy period of
time (as we have done before). We always aimed to make the processing cost
comparable to that of a modest meal for a couple – we feel sure that $44
(for a couple) is still well and truly within those limits.
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