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Parenting and Step-Families
The Opioid Crisis: Protecting Children from Addicted Parents
A parent addicted to opioids often neglects even the most basic needs of their children. Sometimes tough love is required to remove children from their drug-addicted parents and place them in the custody of a relative with a safe and secure home.
Advice for Divorcing Parents: Check in Regularly with Your Kids
Advice for divorcing parents on how to openly communicate with their kids to reduce their children’s stress, fear and anxiety.
6 Holiday Survival Tips for Divorced Parents
For divorced and separated families, the upcoming holidays can be filled with dread instead of joy. Follow these holiday survival tips to make things easier – for you as well as your children.
What are the most common types of arrangements for children’s living situations post divorce?
There is no common or more frequent custodial arrangement than any other. By way of example while California has a guideline for setting child support and there’s some software programs that assist in setting that support, and some of those programs default to a visiting parent having 20% parenting time, that’s really a software function. […]
What arguments stem from custody arrangements?
Child custody options in New Jersey include sole custody, joint legal custody, and shared legal and physical custody. Many parents entered the divorce process with a strong belief that pursuing sole custody is by far the best option and are ready to fight for it. In sole custody arrangements, one parent is considered to be […]
What missteps should women avoid in regards to custody and parenting time plans?
Some women approach divorce thinking that they will be awarded sole custody of the kids simply because they’re the mom. Unfortunately, these women can be in for a bitter disappointment or could be setting themselves up for a custody battle, because the notion of family court judges always rule that children should spend all or […]
How can a parent increase their chances of being allocated the majority of the parenting time and decision making in a dissoluti
The best way a parent can increase his or her chances of being allocated the majority of parenting and decisions making is to make decisions that are based upon the best interest of the child or children in their family. Oftentimes parents can become so immersed in regards to what their needs are in dissolution […]
Podcast: 2 Stepmoms Talk about Love and Blended Families
Divorce Magazine’s Martha Chan and Diana Shepherd discuss their experiences as stepmoms and offer their best advice to listeners.
If a relocation takes place, would changes have to be made to parenting time?
That’s correct. That’s what we would do. We would work out a new parenting plan. A lot of times when people move out of state or very far away, we have to factor in transportation expenses, who’s going to pay those, how much are they going to be, and is it feasible for that other […]
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