Posts Tagged ‘parenting’
Interview: Tips For Successful Holiday Co-Parenting
The holidays aren’t always happy when you’re a single parent trying to work with your children’s mother or father to accommodate everyone’s schedule, see relatives, and spend special holiday time with the kids. Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego members Shawn Weber, attorney with Brave Weber Mack; and Justin Reckers, director of Pacific Divorce…
Read MoreAsk These Five Questions to Find Out If You Are a Candidate for Collaborative Divorce
by Adryenn Cantor, CFLS, AAML Law Office of Adryenn Cantor, San Diego, California If you see the completion of your marriage as transition, instead of failure, then you can consciously decide how to move forward in dissolving your marriage with grace and thoughtfulness. Instead of seeing the process as dividing assets, dividing time with the…
Read MoreCollaborative Divorce Sets Stage for Healthy Co-Parenting
When parents of minor children divorce, they cannot completely sever ties between them. They remain members of a family through their children. The goal of Collaborative Divorce is to help a divorcing couple define and implement the settlement that best meets the needs of their family, and learn new skills for more effective communication, conflict…
Read MoreBrave New World of Divorce: Alimony For Your Eggs?
Divorce is never a happy situation. But it can be especially difficult for women who would like to become mothers and face an expiration date on their fertility. Reproductive medicine provides many more options for people who wish to become parents. But this can also complicate a divorce. Fertility preservation could now become an issue…
Read MoreTips for Empty Nesters When the Kids Leave for College
Many parents are working through the transition in their lives created when their children leave for college. As CFLGSD member and family law attorney Julia Garwood notes, things change. They no longer know when the kids are home, whether they are eating or sleeping properly, who they are hanging out with, and other everyday activities.…
Read MoreSurvey: Single Fathers Head Record Number of Households with Minor Children in U.S.
A record 8% of households with minor children in the United States are headed by a single father, up from just over 1% in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Decennial Census and American Community Survey data. The number of single father households has increased about ninefold since 1960, from less than…
Read MoreA Bedtime Story for Children of Divorce
One of the strongest benefits of Collaborative Divorce is the focus on putting the family and especially your children first throughout the process, for their longtime well-being. Author Jackie Pilossoph shares a first person story about the lessons she has learned about putting her own current feelings of disappointment and anger aside, successfully creating a…
Read MoreCultures, Children and Caring: The Collaborative Model Puts Children First
by Robert A. Simon, Ph.D. Concepts of what is best for children may seem obvious. But as I learned during the recent 6th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights in Sydney, Australia, there is a surprising amount of variation. This conference, held every four years, is attended by mental health professionals, judges, attorneys…
Read MoreWhat We Can Learn About Divorce from Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes
by Frank X. Nageotte, CLS-FL We will probably never know the details of the divorce case between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. That’s because celebrities and their advisors realize in ways the general public doesn’t always grasp that whatever is litigated becomes public record. Experienced family law attorneys usually encourage their clients to try to…
Read MoreWho Is A Parent in 2013?
by Frank X. Nageotte, CLS-FL Faced over the last 30 years with rapid advances in the science of human reproduction and fertility, DNA analysis, and genetics, the equally rapid evolution of the legal rights of gay and lesbian individuals, and significant changes in social views regarding traditional marriage, same-sex couples, and families, the law throughout…
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