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How Can I Co-Parent When I Don’t Trust My Ex-Spouse? Part II
-{7 minutes to read} In Part I of this article we examine the complex situation of shared custody with an…
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Trauma and Divorce: What Good Parents Need to Know (Part IV)
-{6 minutes to read} Why is the topic of trauma important in divorce? Why is it important to parents? What…
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Words that Harm and Words that Heal (Part III)
-{3 minutes to read} Words that Harm and Heal, Even well-meaning caregivers can miss or botch a critical opportunity to…
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What’s the Difference Between Hurt and Trauma? (Part I)
-{4 minutes to read} What’s the difference between hurt and trauma and why do divorcing parents need to know? Hurt…
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Children: Damage by Divorce Is Not Mandated — Part 2
-{4 minutes to read} Building on the recent blog series called Three Parenting Mistakes Good Parents Make, this article turns…
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Children: Damage by Divorce is Not Mandated
-{3:30 minutes to read} A good divorce from a bad marriage may actually be better for children when the alternative…
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Three Parenting Mistakes Good Parents Make — Mistake #3
-The Third Mistake parents make is speaking negatively about one another in front of their child. Let me widen the…
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Three Parenting Mistakes Good Parents Make — Mistake #1
-{5 minutes to read} Both married and divorced parents are capable of good and terrible parenting, and most parenting mistakes…
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Should Squirrels Have the Right of Way?
-{6 minutes to read} A friend of mine told me a little story about a woman he knew who had…
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Freedom From the Tyranny of Things
-{5 minutes to read} The other night, I saw a movie called Minimalism, and as I sorted through the thousands…
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A Triumph for the Best Interests of the Child
-The Overruling of Baures by the NJ Appellate Court {7:12 minutes to read} Relocation is among the most difficult family…
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If I Can Waive Alimony, Why Can’t I Waive Child Support?
-{5:45 minutes to read} If I can waive alimony, why can’t I waive child support? Fair question. Here’s why: Alimony…
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Anger & Vitriol – and What to Do About Them in Divorce
-{6:12 minutes to read) Yes, you’re mad as hell and you’re not gonna take it anymore! That’s what divorce is…
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Sundays, Bloody Sundays
-{4:42 minutes to read} Sundays are not known to be the bright spot of the week. Sundays, especially Sunday evenings,…
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The Magic of the Winter Picnic
-{9:54 minutes to read} Divorce, Money and How to Insulate the Children One winter evening, when I was five,…
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Whose Side Are We On? The Same Side!
-{3:00 minutes to read} Not long ago, I heard something fairly remarkable in my mediation session. To set the scene…
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Parental Alienation—Right Here on Earth
-Parental alienation occurs when one parent hinders or disrupts, even poisons the relationship between the child and the other (usually…
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Creating a Healthy Divorce Narrative for your Kids
-There are a lot of recommendations about how to tell your children you are getting divorced. This article concentrates on…
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Parentification
-Childhood, until the mid-18th century, it is commonly believed, was not conceptualized as a particular stage in life. As reflected…
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Going Without And Going Within
-One of the challenges of divorce is going without. Almost everyone goes through a monetary strain during divorce because running…
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A Communication Template For Divorced Parents
-Communicating is riddled with potholes. This is particularly so for divorced couples whose relationship may be strained with distrust, unresolved…
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Create A Family Manifesto: Bring Unity By Developing Your Own Rules Of Law
-Straddling two addresses is difficult enough for an adult, but for a child who has limited control over his environment,…