Whatever happened to “til death do us part”? My wife and I will celebrate our 37th wedding anniversary this month and we are still best friends. But that isn’t the norm nowadays. A few weeks ago we learned friends of …
Busy court dockets, complex cases, and other issues may encourage consideration of private mediation as an option for resolving cases. As with the settlement of any case, negotiating the settlement of a family case involves some aspects of mediation: you …
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Jailing a juror for contempt of court for contact made on Facebook raised many more questions about how social networking websites and the courts co-exist. But solicitor Sara Tomaszewski says the problem lies with site users, not the sites themselves …
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There are two kinds of parents in the world. There are those who strive to re-create for their children the blissful upbringings that they themselves once knew. And then there are the rest of us. But somewhere in the quest …
A study of employment and divorce suggests that while social pressure discouraging women from working outside the home has weakened, pressure on husbands to be breadwinners largely remains. The research, led by Liana Sayer of Ohio State University to be …
What do people in business do when they're facing a crisis? They ask, "What's the best practice to follow in a situation like this? What do successful companies do? "Our society would benefit greatly if divorcing parents could be convinced …
After two decades as the co-owner of a landscape materials yard in northern California, 57-year-old Debbie Hannan didn't just retire: She divorced her business partner. Though amicable, the split led to a drawn-out legal battle over the terms of a …
It seems that the battleground in custody has shifted to weekday nights. Even when the mediator points out how many additional hours one has with children on a weekend day compared to a school night, it usually does not overcome …
Summer is in full swing. School is out. Parents find themselves with the blessing of being around their children 24 hours a day. For parents who have to share parenting time with an ex, the summer can be a very …
Doing some comparative math in the weeks before Father’s Day, Matthew Weinshenker, an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University, has calculated that the number of single-father families in the United States has jumped 27 percent in the past decade. …
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