Leslie Montanile of ‘Ask Leslie the Lawyer’: 5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive After A Divorce

Change your daily Routine. To truly move on from your old life prior to divorce, changing your daily routine is a must. Every week make a change from something old to something new. Take a different route home. Exercise at night if you used to in the morning. Change your bank or location. Try a new supermarket for your groceries. Try a new nail salon or go with colors you would never have used before, it’s only paint. Explore what is around you and say yes to all the things you said no to before. Skip the excuses and embrace the new you.

As part of my series about the “5 Things You Need To Know To Survive And Thrive After A Divorce Or Breakup”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Leslie Montanile. She began practicing matrimonial law in 1992 in Los Angeles, California, after receiving her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Working in a prestigious boutique law firm, she…