WHEN family mediator Jonathan Toussaint asked a 13-year-old boy recently what message he wanted to give his separated mother and father, the boy replied: "I have two messages. When you speak to each other, use each other's names [not insults] …
An Ohio lawmaker who has been blocked four times in his efforts to pass legislation to protect deployed service members from losing custody of their children has launched a new two-pronged effort to try to get his proposal into law. …
An Op-Ed piece in the New York Times ("No Fault of Their Own", by the marriage and family therapist Ruth Bettelheim, Feb. 17, 2010) has proposed "no-fault custody proceedings" as a solution to bitter struggles about child custody when couples …
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If eHarmony is the Web site bringing lovebirds to the threshold of marriage, Facebook is the one showing up for the divorce. The world's most popular social media site is revolutionizing the divorce experience, pouring toxin into virtually every stage …
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AS we have just passed the 40th anniversary of that much vilified institution, the no-fault divorce, it is an appropriate moment to re-evaluate how divorce affects families, and particularly children. The California law took effect on Jan. 1, 1970, and …
Kristi Schwartz is a third grade teacher in Canton who understands the importance of books. When she and her husband decided to get a divorce in 2006, she had trouble finding a children’s book to help explain it to their …
Your family is not named Lohan or Spelling, and your feuds aren’t plastered across People or Us magazines. But they are still painful, hurtful and destructive — emotionally and physically — to the parties involved as well as to other …
While the marriages of John and Elizabeth Edwards, Mark and Jenny Sanford, and Tiger and Elin Woods have flamed out in a most spectacular and public fashion, most divorces I have witnessed (among both clients and friends) have produced far …
When Harry Ditched Sally: Parenting During Divorce Read more »
With fewer stay at home moms more fathers are being awarded primary child custody when parents divorce. Is this new trend a punishment to working mothers or a case of fair play? via Digital Journal - More dads are winning …
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has overturned a 25-year-old legal precedent that presented gay parents with an added obstacle in child-custody cases. On Jan. 21, the court struck down the “special evidentiary presumption” instituted by a 1985 Supreme Court panel decision …