Do I Need An Aggressive Child Custody Attorney?
The question about whether or not someone needs an aggressive attorney is reasonably easy to answer, but with some significant qualifications.  When you stop to consider that you're entering into a legal battle over how ...

Research and Work Your Own Child Custody Case
If you want to win child custody and obtain a meaningful share of child custody, you must know that it doesn't happen by accident.  Additionally, it doesn't happen just because you've obtained an excellent attorney.  ...

Child Custody - Should Judges Talk to Children More?
Judges meeting with children in the middle of high-conflict divorce and custody cases is not a practice that is encouraged.  However, in some circles, some believe that more judicial discussion with or interviewing of children ...

Consider & Assess Your Ex-Partner’s Perspectives
During a high-conflict divorce and child custody situation, it's not unusual for you to focus only on your own thoughts, opinions, perspectives, etc. You're unlikely to give an unbiased consideration for the perspectives of ...

Jon and Kate Plus Eight = 0, Gosselin Custody Matter
Forgive the hokey math reference.  It is intended to show another family with children divorcing and the zero representing the losses associated with it.  For Jon and Kate Gosselin, arbitration may finally be putting an ...

Information: Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
The equitable distribution process which occurs during divorce often includes provisions for the reallocation of retirement plans.  This often includes the retirement plans or pension plans of one or both parties involved in the dissolution ...

CA: Elizabeth Fontaine Loses Custody of Children - Murders Them
Another horrifying case of domestic violence that leaves two young children dead along with their grandmother and the children's mother - who is suspected of committing the killings in San Clemente, California. Investigators are performing tests ...

Radio Show Transcript: Domestic Violence Interview with Jan Elizabeth Brown
Mr. Custody Coach Blog Talk Radio Domestic Violence with guest Jan Elizabeth Brown October 14, 2009 www.mrcustodycoach.com MICHAEL: Hello and welcome to Mr. Custody Coach’s Blog Talk Radio program. I’m Michael, here with my partner Lexi. LEXI: Good afternoon, everyone. MICHAEL: You might ...

Reese Witherspoon Pushing One-Sided Domestic Violence Agenda
Reese Witherspoon continues her whirlwind tour of the world in support of making every aware of domestic violence.  The only problem with her efforts is that she leaves out an entire gender of victims (men ...

Children Need Both Parents - Shared Parenting Works
All of the meaningful data that exists currently demonstrates that the most positive outcomes for children as they grow through life are maximized by the involvement of both parents.  Everyone needs to accept that children ...

If You Can Co-Parent, Do It!
Chances are that if you're here visiting our site, it's not because you have a cooperative parenting agreement or child custody order with your ex-partner.  However, perhaps you do!  Or perhaps you even believe that ...

Deployed Military Parents and Adverse Child Custody Impact
Whether you're a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, or National Guard, your life is one which involves the potential for a lot of relocation.  In times such as we currently ...

False Child Abuse Allegations & Their Impact on Child Custody
Without a doubt, an often used and particularly devastating problem during child custody matters are false allegations of child abuse or child sexual abuse. When some malicious parents, driven by hate or personality disorders, ...

Be Mindful of False Allegations of Domestic Violence
A critical component of most high-conflict divorce and child custody situations is your ability to control your emotions.  Further, conducting your day-to-day life smartly is a requirement.  Avoid putting yourself in any situation where you ...

WV: Paranoia About Christmas Photos Leads to False Accusations?
If not a false accusation, it's certainly a false assumption.  Worse, that the authorities would contend that taking pictures of children sitting with Santa Claus and a choir at a local mall was suspicious enough ...

Child Custody Tip - Don’t Speak Poorly of Other Parent
As if there wasn't enough to concern yourself with in the wake of a divorce and child custody process, you also need to remember that the little things you do or don't do can have ...

VT: Non-Biological Mother, Janet Jenkins, Awarded Custody of Child
Parental alienation and custodial interference aren't just for opposite-sex couples anymore.  With many same-sex couples becoming parents through adoption and artificial insemination, a whole new world of parents are being introduced to the plight of ...

IL: Crystel Strelioff, Sentenced for Parental Kidnapping
After what appears to be a severe case of parental alienation carried out during a parental kidnapping, mother Crystel A. Strelioff has been sentenced to 12-years.  Before anyone can begin to celebrate what appears to ...

Alec Baldwin: A Promise to Ourselves
For those people who have been through a high-conflict divorce and custody dispute - this book will resonate as a spot-on condemnation of the family court system, how it functions, and who it fleeces in ...

SPLITTING: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing a Borderline or a Narcissist
SPLITTING: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing a Borderline or a Narcissist

Massachusetts House Bill 1400 - Support Shared Parenting!
Continuing an uptick in the number of bills before state legislations which would offer a rebuttable presumption of shared parenting (50/50 child custody or close to it), we are pleased to see that Massachusetts is ...

PA House Bill 463 Reintroduced: Rebuttable Presumption of Shared Parenting
Pennsylvania State Representative, Robert E. Belfanti Jr., has reintroduce the bill that he sponsored late in the last session (2007-2008; HB 2685). Please contact your state representative and encourage their co-sponsorship of the reintroduced ...

Radio Show Transcript: Choosing a Lawyer Interview with Bill Eddy
Mr. Custody Coach Blog Talk Radio Choosing a Custody/Divorce Lawyer with guest Bill Eddy October 21, 2009 www.mrcustodycoach.com MICHAEL: Hello and welcome to Mr. Custody Coach’s Blog Talk Radio program. I’m Michael, here with my partner Lexi, again. LEXI: Good afternoon, everyone. MICHAEL: ...

Arizona Contemplates Dramatic Child Support Increases
Arizona is slated to increase child support levels dramatically - to levels far exceeding some of the worst states in the country.  The details are laid out in a series of posts at Glenn Sacks' ...

Requirement for Non Custodial Parent to Pay College Expenses
Seemingly impervious to economic conditions, be they poor or excellent, college costs and tuition continue to rise to astronomical levels. While more people than ever in recent history are suffering from job losses or ...

WA: Child Support Statutes Updated 10/1/09 to Take More Money
In an atrocious economy such as the one we're all living with right now, don't expect the divorce & custody industry to take a step back and do what it is right.  No, in this ...

IA: Michelle Kehoe Gets Life Sentence for Killing Son
While the murder of her 2-year old son and the attempted murder of her older son are just about egregious a series of crimes as there can be, we still can't help but notice the ...

NC: Shaniya Davis’ Body Found, Mother Charged with Human Trafficking and Child Abuse
5-year-old Shaniya Davis' body was found in a wooded area in North Carolina.  Her mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse.  Allegations have surfaced that the mother had offered her ...

FL: Missing 7-Months Old Shannon Lee Dedrick Found, Mother to be Charged
In the United States, parental kidnapping is not as uncommon as some might think. In this alarming Florida case, 7-month old Shannon Dedrick was allegedly kidnapped by her mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, along with accomplices Elizabeth ...

Custody Evaluation: No Judgment Zone
Unless there is a situation that poses a significant threat or some other danger to the children, entities such as family court, guardians ad litem, custody evaluators, etc. really don't care about moral judgments cast ...

Radio Show Transcript: Custody Evaluations Interview with Dr. Robert A. Evans
Mr. Custody Coach Blog Talk Radio All About Custody Evaluations with guest Dr. Robert A. Evans November 18, 2009 www.mrcustodycoach.com MICHAEL: Good day, everyone. You're here with Michael from Mr. Custody Coach.com. I have a special guest today. Dr. ...

November 18th, 2009 Mr. Custody Coach Radio Program
Mr. Custody Coach has scheduled a radio program to discuss the topic of custody evaluations on November 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM EST.  The Coach's guest for the program will be Dr. Robert A. Evans, a ...

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