As I mentioned in a previous post I’ve been putting together a list of free divorce, child custody and domestic violence resources from U.S. State Bar Associations. That list is now complete.
I’ve divided the list up into four groups, Alabama to Hawaii, Idaho to Montana, Nebraska to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island to Wyoming. Links to […]
In a recent post, Child Custody Lawyers Make War, Not Love, the lesson to be learned is that lawyers the world over love conflict. Conflict racks up thousands of extra dollars in billable minutes – at the emotional as well as financial expense of clients, and their children.
If divorcing couples can fight over who gets the TV, lawyers handling child custody have a positive goldmine of conflict or potential conflict to exploit.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports in an article dated July 10 that county judges in parts of Missouri - Madison and St. Clair - have introduced mandatory mediation in all disputed child custody cases.
The move to mandatory mediation is considered a positive action to help minimize the damage and cost of child custody cases.
Mandatory mediation […]
Whatever you do to minimise the effects of divorce on children, one effect is unavoidable – change. Children don’t like change. At best, it’s unsettling, at worst it is deeply disturbing. This is largely because a child’s sense of safety and security develops through consistency – a life that is much the same from day-to-day.
Divorce brings all sorts of change into children’s lives, from new routines to the biggest change of all – the fact that one parent is no longer at home.
An article in the British Daily Mail is a chilling reminder of what can happen when lawyers, not parents, control child custody cases.
My fight for every father explains how lawyers created such chaos that they drove an ordinary father to the extreme of abducting his own daughter.
What’s frightening is the stark contrast between how things began and how they ended.
A study done with more than 200 divorced mothers and their children shows that divorce counselling can help kids avoid trouble when they get into their teen years.
I’ve summarized a report on the study by SAMHSA below and you can read the complete article on this page.
