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What is the Best Parenting Plan for Your Family?
There are many factors to consider when you and your soon-to-be former spouse are deciding on a custody and parenting time schedule that is the best fit for your children’s needs. In the past, a typical custody arrangement would state that the children would...
The Most Helpful Apps To Manage Custody, Finances and More
Topping the list of challenges for divorcing couples is the way communication often breaks down between former spouses. In fact, studies show that communication difficulties are a leading catalyst of separation; these frustrations only become compounded after divorce...
Introducing a New Romantic Partner to Your Kids: Ground Rules and Expert Advice (Part 2)
In Part One of “Introducing a New Romantic Partner to Your Kids: Ground Rules and Expert Advice”, we focused on how to avoid conflict and upset when a new partner changes the dynamic of your post-divorce co-parenting relationship. There are topics you and your spouse...
Introducing a New Romantic Partner to Your Kids: Ground Rules and Expert Advice (Part 1)
When a couple chooses to enter into divorce mediation, as opposed to litigation, there are often noble intentions driving this decision. Facing off as adversaries in court is costly, not only in the literal, financial sense, but also in how it can drain away a...
How to Tell Your Spouse That You Want a Divorce
Of course, going through a divorce is typically one of the furthest things from the minds of newlyweds. However, the reality is that all marriages do not have happy endings. When problems between a married couple begin to pile up, and it starts to become clear that...
How to Use Mediation to Address Changed Circumstances Due to the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has caused significant changes in the lives of nearly every American. The effects of these changes have been amplified for families with young children who have gone through (or are currently going through) the divorce process. This is a...
The Challenges Of Grey Divorces
While studies show that divorce rates in the U.S. as a whole have begun to drop, the rate of “grey divorces” – couples who are age 50 years or older and in long-term marriages – is the demographic in which divorce rates are still rising. A significant reason for the...
Co-parenting While Living Apart During Covid 19
In a recent article in the New York Law Journal, Judge Jeffrey Sunshine commented on co-parenting during the pandemic from the point of view of a judge who decides custody issues. He noted that since parents with non-emergency custodial issues were unable to access...
Divorce and Parenting in the age of COVID-19
We have been hearing a lot about the new normal resulting from life in the age of COVID-19. Our individual and collective worlds have been rocked in ways as novel as this strain of virus. To be sure, we are living in historic times. The outbreak of COVID-19 has become...
5 Myths About Divorce Mediation
Divorce Mediation has become a popular alternative to adversarial divorce proceedings as it saves families time, money and unnecessary emotional upheaval. It has helped countless couples achieve a more constructive divorce. Yet, there are still many misconceptions...