Be Smart for the Children: Post-Divorce Best Practices

Though we wish we would see less of it in divorce circumstances, children end up the ultimate casualties when parents take their failed relationship to the ultimate battlefield – family court. While two parents who choose to actually act the part of the adults...

TX: Gay Couple’s Divorce Drawing National Attention

In what is soon to become a flood of controversy since the debates and discussions raged about the recognition of gay marriage – comes the downside – debates and discussions about gay divorce. It will be interesting to watch how divorce and also custody...

Top 10 Commandments of Low-Contact With High-Conflict Personalities

When embroiled in a high-conflict divorce and custody dispute, we highly recommend no-contact.  When children are involved, no-contact is impractical, so we are proponents of what is often referred to as low-contact.  In keeping with this recommendation, we offer the...

NJ: Divorce Rates Decline in Poor Economy

This is not very surprising news.  This excerpt out of New Jersey shows that when there isn’t a “pot of gold” at the end of the proverbial rainbow – people don’t divorce.  Since women initiate more than 75% of all divorces, oftentimes...

Does Your Divorce Attorney Understand High Conflict Custody Issues?

Choosing a divorce attorney is always a difficult process, whether you are filing the divorce yourself or trying to catch up with your spouse that has already decided the marriage will no longer work. When you are dealing with a high conflict spouse, and children are...

Communicating in a High-Conflict Divorce & Custody Situation

Always remember this:  “Anything you write can and will be used against you. Any conversations may be recorded and can and will be used against you.” When it comes to communicating with your ex-spouse or ex-partner, hereafter referred to as the “ex,” anytime you must...