CHILD CUSTODY AGREEMENTS AND PARENTING PLANS
Will I still get to spend holidays with my child? Will I see him on his birthday?
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JOINT CUSTODY AGREEMENTS
If you have children and you’re going through a divorce, you will need arrange their care and think about how they are going to spend meaningful time with each of you. These issues are formally referred to as child custody.
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CHILD SUPPORT MEDIATION – KEEPING YOUR CHILDREN CENTRAL
Will I Have to Pay Child Support? How much will I get in Child Support? How is Child Support Calculated?
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CHILDREN IN DIVORCE
Best Practices for On-Line Mediation: Recommended Ground Rules
-Mediating Online requires some new guidelines to optimize participants’ experience and maintain the integrity of the mediation process.
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…
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…
Preventing Trauma – A Guide (Part II)
-{4 minutes to read} Because trauma is painful, complex and difficult to resolve, what can we do to prevent it?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Three Parenting Mistakes Good Parents Make: Mistake #2
-{3 minutes to read} Parents are tasked with becoming artful navigators. They must maintain the role of authority, decision-maker, and caretaker…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…