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...
Child Custody
Our current parenting plan isn’t working. Can we change it?
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...
Parenting plan considerations for supporting busy children
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...
How is child support decided with 50-50 custody?
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...
Cultural differences can affect parenting decisions
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,...
Should I remain married because of the kids?
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....
In California, grandparents can have rights to visitiation
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...
Get on the same page when the kids start back to school
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...
Child custody and the antivax movement
When you and your spouse got married, it seemed like you shared the same views on most of the important issues in life. You were both conservative about money matters but socially liberal and plugged into the happenings in your Pleasanton community.So you were very...
Why you should mediate your custody case
If you are divorcing your child's other parent, you should first consider the value of mediating your custody case. This approach also works well with unmarried parents who are ending their relationship with one another but want to stay firmly involved in their...