Do I Need an Attorney for My Child Custody Case?
An attorney can serve as a capable liaison between you and your ex-spouse, diffusing personal attacks each side may launch against each other, possibly torpedoing a potentially favorable ruling. Discussing your case with an attorney allows a knowledgeable person to step back, and take or even create a more professional tone on the situation.
10 Questions You Should Ask Your Potential Attorney
You have already listened for good attorneys in court, and you have visited and asked several parenting groups or organizations for their recommended lawyers. From this research, you have narrowed your search to five and you are ready to call and set up free consultations in person or over the phone. So what ten questions should you prepare to ask your future divorce or paternity attorney?
Accepting a New Step-Parent
Step-parents or “bonus parents” in my experience are a real blessing. As both a child of remarried parents and a parent who is married with blended kids, I think I can appreciate this concept from many different angles. My parents re-married well. I was blessed to...
What’s in the Best Interest of a Child?
If you face a custody battle, you will hear that phrase a lot. And you should. As a matter of fact, you should ask yourself that question with regards to every decision regarding a divorce, and even before. All states now determine primary custody on a derivative based on a concept called “best interest of the child.”
Teen Sex Talk: Purity Offers the Best FUTURE Option
The 2011 Center for Disease Control reveals that nearly half of all high school students reported having had sex. One in three claimed to have sex during the last three months and half of the 19 million new cases of STD are among these same young people.
Divorce Stress, Consider a Health Change for the Better
Steve Brown’s 2005 research on “The Worst Things in the World: Life Events Checklist” and even a basic Wiki Answers shows “divorce” to be one of the most stressful events of your life. How you choose to deal with one of life’s most complicated and trying issues could determine a pattern for the rest of your life. Make sure you develop healthy coping skills to help you deal with the stress — including divorce support groups or counseling — and do not turn to drugs or alcohol.
Often Subtle, Parental Alienation Can Have Devastating Results
What children of divorce need more than anything else is a healthy and strong relationship with both parents. Often times, children will feel responsible for a divorce. They often fear they behaved badly, or fought too much, or asked for too many goodies. After a...
Teen Friend Talk: Your SUCCESSFUL Option
If you watch the news and you see an arrested teen caught with drugs, a drunk teen being put into a police car, or a tearful conversation about teen pregnancy, the conversation most likely starts with… “I had these friends.” Teens don’t realize that the high school...
The Importance Of A Child Custody Evaluation
If you are a parent who is divorced or in the process of a divorce and cannot agree on parenting issues with the other parent a child custody evaluation may be done by an independent…
6 Conversations to Have with Your Teen Starting High School
Nothing marks time like having kids. One day you blink and your 14 year old is starting 9th grade. I am fortunate to live in a district that actually still has 9th graders in middle or junior high school. However, 9th grade actually is the beginning of high school. So with that in mind, I am planning and reviewing the most important talks I want to have with my soon-to-be high schooler, Caitlyn.
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.
Considering Divorce? Really Evaluate Your Marriage
Maybe you haven’t gotten divorced, or you’ve just been served papers by your soon-to-be Ex. At this point, stop and carefully consider the cost of time, money and effort of getting divorced with children. Contested custody battles can take two to five years.