Divorces with no lawyers will be the subject of a three-year test in a pair of mid-Michigan counties. The Michigan Supreme Court says the goal is to see how an informal docket works in certain domestic relations cases in Gratiot …
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Why Should I Consider Mediation For My Divorce? Mediation allows separating and divorcing couples to take control of planning their own lives, and allows them an environment in which to make good decisions about their future. It is especially beneficial …
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The Michigan Court of Appeals this week reversed a lower court decision that could have given gays, lesbians and unmarried heterosexuals in Michigan legal standing to obtain joint custody of children. The decision came in the case involving Renee Harmon …
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He spitefully blows out her Shabbos candles. She hides his medications and makes him sleep in the dining room. Can this Orthodox Jewish marriage be saved?Probably not -- but a wall down the middle of the Williamsburg couple's house is …
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Many men across the country -- across the globe, really -- are fighting what they argue is a bias in child custody cases toward women. One of the latest battlegrounds for this conflict is Massachusetts where activists are pushing a …
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More lawyers need to become involved in mediation, a group of lawyer and non-lawyer mediators told CAROL COULTER THE ADVANTAGES of mediation over litigation in family law disputes have been well-rehearsed. Mediation permits the parties to retain control of the …
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It’s estimated that nearly one million divorces take place each year in this country. It’s further estimated that somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of these divorces continue into high-conflict relationships. That means that hundreds of thousands of children each …
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Sandra Bullock and Jesse James are doing it, and so are Elizabeth and John Edwards. These celebrity couples are raising their children together, even though their own relationships are on the rocks. So can people raise kids together after a …
Why do so many couples divorce? What if the truth was that you didn't marry the wrong person -- you just didn't know how to be married? That question is at the heart of the burgeoning marriage education movement and …
The statistics on divorce in America are sobering, revealing that nearly one-half of marriages will likely result in dissolution. The emotional and financial toll on families experiencing divorce is frequently catastrophic. In many cases, the financial trauma is multiplied by …