By working together, co-parents can minimize stress and create a positive holiday experience for their children, helping them feel loved and supported despite the family separation. Families who follow these dos and don’ts can make this festive time truly merry.
If you are considering moving after divorce, especially if it is a long-distance move, you must consider the impact on your children. See an excellent essay that investigates how children perceive and react to the combined influences of divorce and relocation.
As a father going through the potentially gut-wrenching divorce process, it’s important to understand what to do and what not to do. Take the following practical considerations into account to ensure a successful outcome.
Summer is a season for family vacations, plenty of summer reading, activity-filled camps—and strenuous co-parenting. Divorced parents are obligated to work out the new schedule during these months, while also providing a stable environment for their children. Here are summer break tips to employ.
Relationships with in-laws and mutual friends can become awkward or fraught with tension, but it is important to keep these relationships civil for the sake of your family and children. The following tips will help you handle family, in-law, and mutual friend relationships after a divorce.
Given the high rates of divorce in the US, a prenuptial agreement offers significant benefits. Signing a prenuptial agreement protects spouses and their assets.
As you go through the divorce proceeding and get used to your life after the divorce, follow these tips to make this transition easier for your children.
With all the stress, time, and effort that goes into the divorce proceeding, it is easy to overlook the effects of the divorce on the children. Children are vulnerable to stress from a divorce because they are witnessing the splitting of their family, often for reasons that they do not know or understand. The situation can be especially stressful if one parent engages in parental alienation.
The process of a divorce is tough on everyone in the family from the spouses to the children whose lives are about to change significantly. Divorce proceedings often involve intense emotions and some of this tension may carry over into the planning involving child custody and visitation. When going through a divorce, the parents must…
Whether divorced parents should pursue a co-parenting or parallel parenting arrangement depends on the situation between the parents. The following is a description of both post-divorce parenting options to help divorced parents decide which arrangement will work best for their children.