If you have been involved with a partner who was emotionally or physically abusive, you are probably relieved and thankful to have gotten them out of your life. If you have a child together, however, you know it’s not quite as simple: You need to balance keeping your child safe…
If you are going through a divorce or child custody case, you will need to go through the family law court system. If you are representing yourself with the assistance of a legal resource group, there are some basics you should know to help your case go as smoothly as…
Even under the best circumstances, divorces and child custody cases are expensive. There will be a filing fee with your state as well as the financial trauma of separating one household into two. If you were a stay-at-home parent, you might not have career skills that will help you get…
During and after a divorce, you will have various legal, financial, and emotional difficulties to deal with. Your time with your children might be cut drastically. You might struggle to pay bills, having gone from two household incomes to one or paying out a large portion of your income to…
During a divorce or breakup, parents must come to an agreement as to how custody and visitation will work. Rarely, the matter goes to trial, but most of the time it is a compromise between two parents who want the best for their child. As time passes, however, it’s possible…
Most of the time, mothers and fathers will share custody of their children in the event of a divorce. Sometimes, however, it is in the child’s best interest that one parent has sole custody and the other has visitation, whether supervised or not. And of course, in rare cases, a…
