The question of where to spend the holidays can be a tough one even for intact families – couples often have trouble agreeing on which set of in-laws to visit on Thanksgiving or Christmas. But when a couple gets divorced, the question becomes which parent the children will spend the…
When you and your child’s other parent get divorced or separate and ask a court to make a decision on a formal custody arrangement, you wind up with what’s usually called a permanent custody order. But despite the word “permanent”, it’s actually fairly common to re-negotiate custody or visitation arrangements…
Divorce is always difficult, no matter who you are or how long you’ve been married. If you’ve been married for a long time, you may be feeling lost – as if you no longer know how to be you now that you’re single again. And being married for only a…
Figuring out what to do during visitation time with your kids can be difficult. On the one hand, you don’t see your kids every day, so you want to do something fun with them, and you want them to associate their time with you with fun times and happy memories….
While friendly divorces do exist, most couples are not seeing eye to eye at the time of a divorce. There are often hurt feelings and anger surrounding the situation, which can make interacting with each other painful, difficult, and often contentious. It’s likely that most people aren’t entering into divorce…
A common assumption by newly separated or divorcing men is that they have fewer rights to their children than the child’s mother, and will be given short shrift by family courts when it comes to custody matters. However, this is untrue. Why do fathers believe that they are unlikely to…
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