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 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. ...

Maximizing Child Custody Exchange Safety

Along with a whole host of other details that are often overlooked when it comes to preparing a child custody agreement, is the child custody exchange.  People rarely consider the pitfalls associated with the child custody exchange when your ex-wife or ex-husband is...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

To everyone who comes here to read and for assistance, guidance, and understanding – everyone at Mr. Custody Coach wishes you a holiday season of peace, love, and joy.  We wish you a holiday season that is free from child custody contentiousness.  We wish you a...

Happy Thanksgiving 2010

From everyone at Mr. Custody Coach, we wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday. May it be a time of togetherness, family, friends, and lots of love.  May it be free from conflict and give all of you a chance to set aside the child custody litigation, horrible...

Custody Exchange – When Your Child Won’t Go

A child custody case involving a high-conflict spouse/partner invariably devolves into a fight where both parents believe they are in the right.  The truth is that usually one of them is – that is to say – more in the “right” than the other. ...

Divorce and Child Custody Mediation Styles

As an addendum to our article Selecting a Mediator for Divorce and Child Custody, we’ll summarize the different styles of mediators that you may encounter – or even select using “style” as a basis. One of the most overlooked criteria when...

Selecting a Mediator for Child Custody Matters

Oftentimes selected by the parents or ordered by family court, mediation is another increasingly common stop on the journey to finalizing child custody or a parenting agreement.  The family courts are so packed with litigants nowadays that they are literally looking...

Preparing a Parenting Agreement Draft

There are a number of reasons nowadays why you might want to embark on preparing a draft parenting agreement. State statutes may require the parents to prepare a parenting agreement together or independently of one another. A judge might require each party to prepare...