Child Custody Evaluator, Public or Private?

Some might look at the decision between a public child custody evaluator (court ordered or county service) or a private custody evaluator as the difference between an assembly line process and a specialized process.  The truth of the matter is, in our experience,...

AL: Alabama Shared Parenting Bill Moves Forward

Another in an ever-increasing list of shared parenting child custody bills is moving through the Alabama legislature.  Like many others that have passed through other states’ legislatures (both successfully and unsuccessfully) – it is not without its...

Child Custody Fight Pitfalls – Avoid Them

Education is the key to managing just about every situation in life.  It’s no different for the effective preparation and management of your child custody situation.  The list of circumstances about which you want to gain a meaningful education includes but is...

High Conflict Personalities & Custody Evaluations

When involved in a high conflict child custody battle, you’re all too aware of how significant and overwhelming the smear campaign against you, the targeted parent, can be.  It’s tough enough figuring out how you will manage the public trashing of your...

UT: Tiffany Marie Petrossi Sexually Abuses Daughter, Blames Father

There are no lengths that some high conflict parents will go to in order to gain an upper hand in divorce and child custody proceedings.  In what has to rank high on the list of heinous things a parent can do – it’s the false allegations of sexual abuse...

How Does a Child Custody Journal or Diary Help?

A daily journal or diary of your post-divorce child custody experiences may prove to be helpful in court. As a stand-alone item, it’s not likely to provide any help, after all, anyone can write anything in a daily journal and claim it to be a factual account....

How to Create a Family Rules List – Part 2

In Creating a Family Rules List, Part 1 – we focused on the toddler to pre-teen years.  In part two, we move into the critical teenage years. The Teen Years It’s generally understood that in the teen years there is a greater understanding of rules and...

How to Create a Family Rules List – Part 1

Consistency in just about every task parents perform relevant to the children is a sign of good parenting. Today’s world is not like “back in the old days.” It never is. The world we live in is fast-paced and full of technology. It is loaded now,...

When Child Custody Exchanges Go Wrong

There are any number of reasons why a child custody exchange goes wrong.  The list frequently includes the following willful violations of the child custody order: Show up extremely late to a child custody exchange. Fail to show up for a child custody exchange at all....

When Settling Child Custody is a Bad Deal

Another frequent issue that we encounter with people in a high conflict child custody case is settling under duress.  However, the source of the pressure might surprise you.  Very often it comes from one’s very own attorney and is done in tandem with the judge. ...