A child support mediator can help parents agree on what is often one of the most highly contested issues in a divorce. Every party in a divorce will have an idea of who should be paying child support and how much they should be paying, so it can be difficult to find a common ground …
Among the many other considerations that need to be made when parents are getting divorced, the father-daughter relationship after divorce will need to be considered when families with daughters are splitting up. This relationship is one of the many relationships that can be strained during the family’s separation. There are also risks from both sides …
Almost 45% of US divorces involve children. Child custody and visitation are highly emotional issues that will deeply affect the family, including its physical, mental, and emotional well-being and the strength of its relationships. Despite the importance of the questions decided in family court, seventy to seventy-five percent of California cases involve parties without lawyers. …
Using collaborative law in dispute resolution, especially in family law, helps parties find solutions that meet their needs and the needs of the other parties. Collaborative law, also known as collaborative practice, is a practice of law that shifts from an adversarial mindset to a collaborative mindset. It is most commonly practiced in family law …
Family conflict and stress are often a part of life for most of us. Many people have a person in the family that everyone is slightly uncomfortable around. Other families will cut off relationships and refuse to gather for decades because of old feuds that were never resolved. With the current political and social atmosphere, …
Divorce is accompanied by a myriad of emotions, big and small. While each divorce stirs up different emotions depending on the individual situation, there are some similarities in the stages that people will go through as a divorce is approaching and carried through. These emotions are often broken up into six stages—disillusionment, dissatisfaction, decision, initiation, …