These days I always say Congratulations!-- and I really mean it. But as a young lawyer I hesitated when I handed my client the Final Order ending their marriage—"good luck,” I would say, trying to show the appropriate reverence for the death I had just occasioned. So why did I change? After 22 years of practice I’ve learned that people move on, almost always to happiness. Sure, divorce is messy and painful and it shouldn’t be glorified, but it is a new beginning. And happines