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Co-Parenting Communication for Stepparents
Stepping into a co-parenting dynamic as a stepparent can feel like walking a tightrope. You love your partner and their children, but you're also navigating a family that was already set up, with its own history and rules. Finding your place takes patience, respect,...
Remarrying After Divorce: Considerations When Starting A New Family
Navigating a divorce can be challenging for you and all those involved, including your Ex partner and children. However, being divorce does not mean that you can’t have another chance at love! Opening up to another partner and deciding to start a family can be a...
Tips for Dealing with a Struggling Marriage
Being married is something to be proud of, but also requires a lot of work. Not all days will be good, and you may go through tough situations together. Over time, there may be a strain on your marriage, and you may not be getting along as well as you did previously....
Child Custody Tips
27 Years of Custody Cases: 10 Lessons Every Father Should Know
More than twenty-seven years ago, I began helping fathers who were scared, overwhelmed, and unsure of what to do next. Since then, I've spoken with thousands of dads. Some walked away with equal parenting time. Some earned primary custody. Others lost valuable time...
Working with Your Attorney
Choosing the Right Legal Representation for Your Divorce
The attorney you choose for your divorce will be one of the most important decisions you make during this process. For husbands and fathers, that can mean finding someone who understands the practical concerns around parenting time, financial responsibilities,...
Common Mistakes Fathers Make in Custody Cases
Navigating a child custody case is one of the most challenging experiences a father can face. The legal standards and procedures that govern this process can feel foreign and unforgiving. While your focus is rightly on your children, it's easy to make missteps that...
How Can Pennsylvania Spousal Support Lawyers Help Couples Manage Unequal Incomes After Separation?
Separation often changes a family's finances faster than it changes their obligations. One household becomes two, fixed expenses multiply, and the gap between one spouse's income and the other's can suddenly feel impossible to manage. In Pennsylvania, that financial...
What Do Wisconsin Child Support Lawyers Actually Do for Parents?
Child support cases can become stressful when you are dealing with divorce, court deadlines, financial pressure, and major changes inside your home. You may already know that a child support lawyer helps with payments and paperwork, but their role usually goes further...
What Does a Divorce Lawyer Actually Do During a Divorce Case?
Many people think a divorce lawyer is only there for court dates and paperwork. That is one of the most expensive misunderstandings in family law. By the time a case reaches a hearing, much of the real work has already happened behind the scenes. A divorce case is not...
What Do Georgia Divorce Attorneys Actually Do During a Divorce Case?
Divorce lawyers perform many tasks beyond appearing in court and filing motions. Within a divorce proceeding, they advise their clients on the legal process, gather facts, meet deadlines, and make decisions that may affect their property, custody, support, and lives...
Your Custody Court System
What to Bring to Your First Divorce Mediation (and What to Decide Before You Arrive)
The first mediation session in your divorce sets the tone for the rest. You don't need the right answers, but you do need clarity on goals, numbers you can trust, and a plan for how to use your time together. Arriving with up-to-date financial statements, a realistic...
High-Value Assets: A Father’s Guide to Property Division
Going through a divorce means more than just emotional separation. It's also a complex financial uncoupling. For fathers with significant assets like a business, land, or a family ranch, dividing property can feel overwhelming. Understanding the key principles and...
What Actually Delays a Florida Divorce: Fixing Filing, Service, and Disclosure Errors
Florida's no-fault divorce system aims to simplify cases, but many dissolutions get mired in avoidable procedural pitfalls. Small gaps in the original petition, mistakes in serving the other spouse, or missed disclosure deadlines can turn a simple case into months of...
Understanding Property Division in Divorce
Ending a marriage often means untangling the shared finances, which can be one of the toughest parts. Dividing property might seem overwhelming, but understanding the basics can help you approach it with more confidence and clarity. It's not just about splitting a...
What Fathers Need to Know About Child Conservatorship
The legal terms in child custody cases can often feel like a foreign language. For fathers, "conservatorship" is one of the most important words to understand. While many people use "custody," the legal system in states like Texas uses conservatorship to define a...
How to Document Custody Order Violations Without Hurting Your Case
If your Ex keeps violating the custody order, your first job is not to get louder. It is to get more organized. A lot of fathers make the mistake of reacting emotionally when parenting time is denied, exchanges are late, information is withheld, or...
Your Ex, the”Other” Parent
Your Ex Is Not Your Audience: Stop Trying to Win the Argument
One of the hardest lessons I learned during my own custody battle was also one of the simplest: You do not have to convince your ex that you are right. Read that again. You don't have to win the text argument. You don't have to get her to admit she...
Menstruation While Breastfeeding: What’s Normal and What to Expect
Menstruation while breastfeeding is different for every mom—it may return in months or take over a year. This article explains why it can be delayed, when it usually comes back, how it may affect milk supply, and the difference between spotting and a full...
How To Make Your Divorce Friendlier
Divorce isn’t ever going to be a happy situation, no matter what the reasons behind it or how much it makes sense in your situation - the idea of a marriage breaking down to the point where it has to end isn’t a pleasant one. However, just because the marriage is over...
5 Steps To Deal With False Allegations of Child Abuse
In recent times, there's been a growing awareness about child abuse, leading to more cases being reported. The increased vigilance is essential for the safety and well-being of children. Regardless, not every report of child abuse is based on facts. Sometimes, people...
How to Get Through a Messy Divorce
Did you know that around half of all first marriages end in divorce? Although it may feel like you are all alone during this painful time, so many people have gone through the divorce process and come out the other side happier and healthier than ever before. If you...
The Dos and Donts of Co-Parenting with a Difficult Ex
Co-parenting with a difficult Ex can be a trying experience, to say the least. Whether you're dealing with an Ex who is uncooperative, argumentative, or simply unwilling to compromise, it can be challenging to find a way to co-parent effectively. However, it's...
Parenting and Co-Parenting Tips
How Divorce Settlements Affect Your Child’s Future
A divorce settlement is much more than just a financial agreement between two adults; it's a blueprint for your child's future. While most people focus on custody schedules and basic child support right away, the decisions made during this process will impact your...
When Your Child Doesn’t Want to Go With You: What a Divorced Dad Should—and Shouldn’t—Do
You pull into the driveway or the designated exchange location expecting to pick up Johnny. Instead, you hear the words no divorced dad wants to hear: “I don’t want to go with Dad.” That hurts. Even if you know your child loves you, even if...
Dad, Stop Treating Parenting Time Like Visitation
There is a word in family law that I have never particularly liked when we're talking about Fathers: Visitation. You visit your uncle. You visit a friend in the hospital. You visit Disney World. You don't visit...
The 10 Biggest Mistakes Fathers Make During a Custody Battle
Every year, thousands of good fathers lose valuable parenting time—not because they don't love their children, but because they unknowingly make mistakes that hurt their custody case. I've spent more than 27 years helping fathers navigate child custody cases, and I've...
Guiding Young Lives Toward Brighter Paths
Every child deserves the chance to grow up in a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment. Yet, for some, early life can be marked by uncertainty, instability, and challenges that no young person should face alone. That is where fostering steps in, providing not...
How to Keep Up with Parenting During a Custody Dispute
Keeping up with parenting during a custody dispute can be overwhelming and emotionally draining. Balancing your kids’ needs while navigating the legal proceedings can be more than a full-time job, so you may wonder how to strike a balance. When faced with this...
Marriage & Remarriage Tips
Co-Parenting Communication for Stepparents
Stepping into a co-parenting dynamic as a stepparent can feel like walking a tightrope. You love your partner and their children, but you're also navigating a family that was already set up, with its own history and rules. Finding your place takes patience, respect,...
Remarrying After Divorce: Considerations When Starting A New Family
Navigating a divorce can be challenging for you and all those involved, including your Ex partner and children. However, being divorce does not mean that you can’t have another chance at love! Opening up to another partner and deciding to start a family can be a...
Tips for Dealing with a Struggling Marriage
Being married is something to be proud of, but also requires a lot of work. Not all days will be good, and you may go through tough situations together. Over time, there may be a strain on your marriage, and you may not be getting along as well as you did previously....
Tips To Create a Kid Friendly Wedding
Are you planning a wedding over the next few months? Are you considering remarrying with kids? This is a stressful time for anyone, let alone people who have small children in their families who are going to be attending the event. Of course, this adds a layer of...
4 Ways To Mend A Broken Relationship
All relationships experience shaky moments occasionally. But regardless of what you’re going through, every relationship is repairable. Yes, most couples split up, but many also get back together. The point is that going through a difficult patch in your relationship...
Does A Breakup Have To Be So Toxic?
The ending of a relationship is rarely amicable. It’s not as if you and your partner are going to meet in the United Nations, a moderated forum where both people can vote on the amendments to the terms of your parting. But at the same time, do we really need that kind...
Daddy Got Custody Podcast
DGC 054 – How Text Messages Can Win or Lose Your Custody Case
September 6, 2026 | 18min About this episode In this episode of the Daddy Got Custody Podcast, Fred Campos, @FullCustodyDad and 27-year custody veteran, explains how something as simple as a text message can either strengthen your custody case or quietly...
DGC 053 – What to Do When Your Ex Violates the Court Order
August 30, 2026 | 18min About this episode In this episode of the Daddy Got Custody Podcast, Fred Campos, @FullCustodyDad and 27-year custody veteran, explains what fathers should do when their Ex refuses to follow the court order. Fred breaks down how...
DGC 052 – How Fathers Accidentally Damage Their Own Custody Case
August 23, 2026 | 20min About this episode In this episode of the Daddy Got Custody Podcast, Fred Campos, @FullCustodyDad and 27-year custody veteran, talks about one of the biggest threats to a father’s custody case: himself. Good dads sometimes damage...
DGC 051 – Interview with Chel Cartmill, Author of “Spider on My Neck”
August 16, 2026 | 36min About this episode In this episode of the Daddy Got Custody Podcast, I sit down with Chel Cartmill, Next Chapter Transition Specialist and author of Spider on My Neck, for an honest conversation about the emotional side of divorce,...
DGC 050 The 10 Most Important Custody Lessons I’ve Learned in 27 Years
July 5, 2026 | 11min About this episode After 27 years of dealing with custody battles, courtrooms, attorneys, judges, CPS, evidence, and the realities of raising kids after divorce, I’ve learned a few things—some of them the hard way. In this milestone...
DGC 049 What Fathers Should Never Say in Court
July 3, 2026 | 17min About this episode When you’re fighting for custody of your kids, the wrong words at the wrong time can do serious damage to your case. In Episode 049 of the Daddy Got Custody Podcast, I talk about the things fathers should never say in...
Product Reviews
Imagina Books – Educational Augmented Reality Books
Imagina Books is a series of Educational Augmented Reality books that blends between the classical book reading experience and the recent technology, Augmented Reality, that boosts visualization and Imagination leading to better understanding, more enjoyable and a better hands-on experience for our kids. The book and the mobile application are the two pillars of this experience.
Divorce is Not the End of the World, Book Review
There are good books written to and for parents advising them on court proceedings and how-to regarding child custody in a divorce. There are also a few books written to parents focusing on issues kids face during the process. However few books are written by kids to...
Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date, Book Review
Dennis Raney’s “Interviewing Your Daughter’s Date: 30 Minutes Man-to-Man” is a fantastic idea of actually having a 30 minute conversation/interview with a boy that is starting to show interest in your daughter before they even go out on their first date.