Child support payments are intended to ensure children can continue to receive the quality of life within the guidelines and earning abilities of the parents that is in the best interests of the children. This includes providing the child with a consistent level of schooling (education), health care, and support…
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What Happens to Embryos In a Divorce?
There are a lot of important decisions that need to be made during a divorce. Separating the lives of two people, particularly after a number of years spent together can be extremely complex. Decisions need to be made not just about children and property, but in regard to crucial family…
Parenting Time Bullet Guide (Part 11): Mindfulness and Mediation
Welcome to the last edition in our series of articles and guides on parenting time and visitation. Through the course of this series, we’ve talked about various factors which might be relevant when you’re making decisions about visitation and parenting time following a divorce. Although all aspects of divorce can…
Parenting Time Bullet Guide (Part 3): Parent Coordinators and Joint Legal Custody
Welcome back to this third installment in our series of Parenting Time bullet point guides. Following on from the other fast-paced guides I’ve produced on this website about divorce and child custody, this particular handbook will cover everything you need to know about visitation rights, and the decisions that need…
Child Support Bullets Part 12: Unmarried Parents, Mediation and Non-Relatives
All aspects of family law have their challenges to consider. Even amicable divorces that revolve around mediation can be uncomfortable and emotionally draining for the people involved. But issues often become a lot more complex when the focus shifts to the children involved in a divorce between two parents. We…
Child Support Bullets Part 11: Making Decisions with Mediation, and Support Agreements
We’re back for another instalment of this bullet point guide for child support. If you’ve been following this blog for some time, you’ll know that I post both full articles, and bullet guides designed to offer support for people considering divorce and family law cases. It can be difficult to…
Divorce Litigation Bullet Guide 17: Uncontested divorces and Switching to Divorce Mediation or Collaborative
Welcome back to my series of bullet point guides on divorce litigation. We’re coming to the end of this guide, with more information to come on various aspects of family law in the months ahead. If you’ve been keeping up with this series to this point, you’ll know we’ve been…
Divorce Litigation Bullet Points 15: Equitable Distribution, Efforts, and Adultery
If you’ve been following my blog over the last year or two, you’ll have noticed that I’ve been systematically sorting through various articles I’ve done over the years to bring you an easy-to-follow list of guides on things like divorce mediation, litigation, and beyond. Right now, I’m discussing divorce litigation,…
Divorce Litigation Bullet Points Part 10: Service of Process and Choices
If you’ve been following my blog for a while now, you’ll be familiar with the bullet point series I publish from time to time. These cover everything from child custody lawyer tips, mediation insights, to information about divorce litigation. Today, we’re carrying on with the divorce litigation bullet points, providing…
Mindfulness in Child Custody?
Staying together for the kids is often not the choice people make in an unhappy marriage or relationship. For many, the best thing that can be done for both yourself and your little ones, is find a way to move on. For others it might be continuing to work on…