Adjusting your co-parenting plan to accommodate the unique needs of a teenager is a delicate yet potentially important task. The teenage years may require a different approach from both parents than you and your ex took when your child was younger. As effective...
Divorce can be stressful under any circumstances. The process is often viewed as adversarial, where spouses do battle until one winner arises. Nonetheless, it doesn’t have to be this way. Divorcing couples are starting to realize that more cooperative approaches can...
Co-parenting can be challenging. It requires cooperation, compromise and mutual respect between co-parents. Even good co-parenting relationships can become strained or break down when one parent wants to move with the child. This is a common scenario. After all, life...
Both parents have a moral and legal obligation to provide for their child (or children) until they can fend for themselves. If the relationship ends in a divorce or separation, however, the court might intervene to determine how the child will be provided for through...
While the winter festive season is meant to be filled with joy and celebration, it can become a challenging time for co-parents. The complexities of shared responsibilities intensify during this time, partially because each co-parent generally wants to spend quality...
As the holiday season comes to a close and the new year begins, an interesting phenomenon will start to take center stage in family law offices all over the country: A whole stream of couples will take their first real steps toward a divorce. A lot of people who are...
Parents help each other and work together to raise their children, but that becomes more challenging after and during a divorce. Once the parents live in separate households, they must learn how to share their kids. If you can both agree to joint legal decision-making...
Divorce is generally handled under the law of the state where the spouses live. This means if the parties lived in Arizona during the marriage, they must divide their property under Arizona's community property laws, they must work out their child custody under...
If your divorce involves children, your soon-to-be ex-spouse may make false accusations to gain leverage in the custody dispute. They may accuse you of child abuse and neglect, domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse, criminal activities and so on. Despite them...
Your divorce might leave you in a financial predicament. While you’ll only be able to keep some of the marital estate for yourself, you’ll also face an increase in expenses at a time when your household income dramatically drops. That can be a frightening prospect,...
