Staying in the marital home means living in the same household as the person who you are divorcing. There is a good chance you’ve gotten your fill of arguments with them over the past few months and the environment in the home probably isn’t very pleasant.

It can take months, and sometimes even more than a year, for a divorce to finalize. In this excellent blog posting, Shawn Garrison offers four tips on what you can do to keep your home from becoming a constant battlefield?

• Broker peace

• Set boundaries

• Set a budget

• Split parenting duties