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June 19, 2020

After you get divorced, you do not need to seek your ex-spouse’s approval about every little aspect of parenting. Your ex is not there to shoot you a dirty look if you allow your children to have a second helping of dessert.

June 19, 2020

Some couples have so little conflict related to the terms of their separation that they can have an uncontested divorce; they simply agree about how to divide their assets and submit their requests to the court, and the court dissolves the marriage according to the parties’ requests.

June 19, 2020

The first step in determining child custody is deciding what kind of parenting arrangement would be in the child’s best interests. The court starts with the assumption that the ideal situation is for each parent to be with the children about 50 percent of the time; some families are able to work things out so that each parent gets 182.5 days of parenting time per year.

June 19, 2020

If you and your spouse separated during the summer, then by August, you are probably just getting used to having your children with you only some of the time. Maybe you even have a temporary parenting plan in place.

June 19, 2020

When your children spend part of their time with you and part of their time with your ex-spouse, it is easy to worry that your children like living with your ex more than they like living with you. Maybe your ex has a swimming pool and a PlayStation, while you live in an apartment that is barely big enough for your child to stretch out on the couch and play video games on his phone.

June 18, 2020

Almost all couples who divorce when their children are minors find that agreeing on a co-parenting schedule and a framework for child-related decision making after the divorce is much more challenging than dividing the couple’s financial assets in an equitable way.

June 18, 2020

Child support is no ordinary debt. If you are in over your head with consumer debts or business debts, you have plenty of options for how to pay those debts, or not to pay them, as the case may be. Some people dodge bill collectors until the statute of limitations expires for their debts. Others file for bankruptcy as often as they can.

June 13, 2020

Unless you are a survivor of domestic violence, you might wonder why people wait so long to leave abusive marriages. Many times, it is because they fear that the violence will get worse if they try to leave.

June 12, 2020

Social media is great for spreading information quickly and providing mindless entertainment; it is also frighteningly effective at showing the worst sides of human nature.

June 12, 2020

Many children find it even more challenging to adjust to life with a new stepparent and stepsiblings than they do to accept that their parents are getting divorced. As much as you may reassure your children that they now have two real homes instead of one, if there are stepsiblings and younger half-siblings on both sides of the family, your kids might feel like they have nowhere that is really theirs.