Your Family, Your Future
Creating a parenting plan with your ex-spouse is an effective way to ensure you and your spouse have a plan for moving forward. A well-thought-out parenting plan will also benefit your children and help them adjust to the situation. Unfortunately, people often make...
Sharing parental responsibilities across two households is always a challenge, especially right after you first separate. However, you and your ex can set yourself up for increased chances of success while co-parenting through the negotiation of a thorough and...
Child custody can be heavily contested during divorce or separation. Besides involving the welfare of the child, it could also mean appearing before the judge. This explains why most couples ask whether they can reach a custody settlement out of court. Generally,...
As a parent, you are obviously concerned about your children’s welfare. But, what if the current custody arrangement is not working in the best interests of the children due to recent developments on your co-parent’s side? What can you do about it? In such a case, you...
Grandparents fulfill an important social role for their grandchildren. Sometimes, they act as secondary parental figures. Other times they are a source of emotional support and financial resources for a child with parents who are spread too soon. Grandparents can also...
As co-parents, you and your ex have to share time with the children. You both have your own homes, and the children live with you for a set amount of time while you have custody. One thing that you're worried about is that you and your ex didn't even have the same...
Your divorce has just concluded and you're trying to rebuild your future. As you adjust to living on one income, finances are going to be tight for a while You have a visitation schedule for your children, and you want to make these visiting days special. You’re...
For many families, divorce often means that one parent has to move out of the family home. If this is the case for you, and you have young children, then you might be worried about how they’ll transition between two homes. Ideally, you want this transition to be...
Some men do worry that they’ll lose time with their children because of a divorce. If they are the breadwinner, it may be hard for them to understand how they’ll have the time to see their children, especially if they were normally away during the day during the...
One of the things that prospective parents have to think about when they decide to have kids is whether or not they can even afford it. They know that children are going to cost a lot of money and increase their daily bills. Some of this is simple, such as an increase...
