Most people enjoy the holidays, but they can be downright magical for young children. Kids relish the time off from school and the exciting family traditions that come with the holiday season. Parents preparing for the holidays after separating from their spouses or...
A California divorce often means many drastic changes to someone's life. They cease living with their spouse and have to separate their finances. If they share children, they also need to negotiate arrangements for sharing parenting time and parental authority. Those...
You and your spouse are going to get divorced. You’ve already had children, so you know that becoming co-parents will be part of this process. You both still want to be involved in the children’s lives, and you know that it’s generally best for a child’s development...
Parents may spend weeks negotiating with one another or attend multiple hearings in court while presenting their side of the situation to create an effective parenting plan. Assessing a family's circumstances and the unique needs of the children in the household will...
As your children grow and mature, their schedules become much busier. Instead of merely attending school and the occasional play date, they may now juggle multiple extracurricular activities, a full academic course load and a part-time job. It could be challenging...
If you and your spouse have decided to have a 50-50 child custody split upon divorce, then you may be wondering how that will affect child support. You may be interested to know that one parent usually does still pay support depending on the circumstances of the...
When you share custody of your child with a person from a different cultural background than you, it can create situations of very disparate parenting decisions. this does not necessarily mean that either you or your ex-spouse are making the wrong parenting decisions,...
There are many good reasons to stay married to your spouse even when the marriage hits a rocky path. But is one of them because the two of you have children together?Traditionally, that has been a major reason why many couples stayed in notoriously bad marriages....
Without a doubt, grandparents and grandchildren form close bonds. But things can happen both within and outside of the family that can strain those bonds.Fortunately, California is a state with one of the more liberal sets of grandparents' rights. Exercising these...
While this school year will definitely be different than the others, some commonalities remain. One thing that divorced co-parents need to do is to have a united front about school and any extracurricular activities their kids in which their kids will be...
