When the judge gives you and your former spouse shared physical custody, the next step is figuring out a visitation schedule. You'll want a fair one that gives you and your former spouse an equal amount of time with your child, while still working around your job...

The holiday season is fast approaching. If your kids are like most others, at least one of them wants an iPad, a smartphone or a game system. Does your parenting plan address electronics? If it doesn’t, it should. What electronic issues can your parenting plan help...

During your divorce, you quickly realize that preserving your relationships with your children are the most important part of the process to you. You start looking into your custody rights, and you assume that legal custody is a term that just means who has custody of...

There’s just no way to sugarcoat this: Being given only supervised visitation with your children is demoralizing and frustrating. That’s particularly true if you think (or know) that the requirement is unfair. Railing against the judge in your case won’t help you....

You love your child so much that you can’t imagine having times when you don’t see them. On top of that, you don’t trust your spouse. The last three times you left your child alone with them, your child threw tantrums when you got home. Whenever you’re gone, they’re...

Leaving an abusive ex can be a difficult and stressful process. You may need to ask the court to help protect you through a Domestic Violence Order of Protection. You may also have to provide documentation of abuse in order to protect your children. Abuse by a parent...

You love your children and want them to have the best experience growing up. You know that going through a divorce might make that harder than expected, but you think that this situation can also help them learn and grow. You and your spouse are working on a parenting...

Couples grow apart over time, go through difficult financial situations or experience infidelity, and those difficult times may lead to divorce. In many families, both spouses play a direct role in the damage to the relationship over time. However, there are also...

You and your spouse decided to divorce, but one thing that will never be simple is learning how to raise your child between homes. You both have different values and ideas about what it means to raise a healthy, well-rounded child. You want your child to go to public...

Military families often have to deal with substantially more stress than civilian families due to the unique demands of a military career such as unexpected travel or the need to move the whole family frequently. That stress might eventually contribute to the decline...