When divorcing, who gets child custody and how much child custody time will they receive? Who will be responsible for making the major decisions that affect the child’s life as they grow up? What arrangements will be made for intact or broken families in the...
For the next three weeks, Lee Block and I will be discussing parental alienation on our jointly authored Post Divorce Points of View Column at her website: The Post-Divorce Chronicles. An excerpt from this week’s installment on parental alienation: There is no...
When you can make arrangements to settle any child custody issue without the interference from family court, you should do so. It’s important to know what is meant by “settling” child custody. It is not intended to mean for you to settle for...
For the February 21st, 2011 installment of the Post-Divorce Points of View column, Lee and Michael conduct a “self-interview” to give readers some deeper insight into their own experiences and how their views of family court were shaped over time. An...
Not often publicized, there are few issues facing our military today that are more demoralizing than the sudden divorces that take place when they are overseas. This often results in a minimal amount of child custody, and the loss of their homes and other assets. Even...
A bill that is garnering increasing attention in the Minnesota state legislature intends to boost from current “minimum 25% presumption of joint custody” to “minimum 45% presumption of joint custody”. At public hearings, many a father has...
We work together with Lee Block of The Post-Divorce Chronicles website sharing our individual perspectives and give some consideration to what the other side experiences and sees on any given situation after a divorce. Mine, that of the divorced father of two...
A follow-up to the first in a series of co-authored blog posts covers the perspectives of a divorced father of two children and a divorced mother of two children. The first article covered the wide range of information about child support. The 2nd installment will...
In a follow-up to our post Pennsylvania House of Representatives Approves Child Custody System Changes, we are please to update you with the news that the bill has official become child custody law in Pennsylvania. More than 10-years in coming, the new child custody...
The courts are becoming increasingly aware of the prevalence of parental alienation behaviors on the part of misguided, vindictive, and high-conflict parents. Oftentimes, only one parent is engaging in parental alienation behaviors. However, it’s not unusual to...
