Child Support: None This Month? Five Steps to Help Collect from Your Ex

You’re owed child support after a divorce, but the money isn’t coming. What can you do?
This article provides instruction for collecting from a delinquent ex-spouse. Before contacting your child support attorney, first contact a tribal child support agency. Provide them with your divorce and child support details.

Top 10 Reasons to Use Mediation

Divorce Mediation provides parents with a valuable alternative to an adversarial divorce. By employing mediation for divorce, parents have the opportunity to work together to create a parenting plan suitable for their children’s upbringing.
This article makes a Win-Win case with 10 reasons for employing Divorce Mediation.

Child Custody Rights for Fathers

Until the changes in the U.S. divorce laws during the 1970’s, a father’s role was limited to financial support and the occasional visitation with his children. This was accepted as the norm.
This article discusses the onset of child custody rights for the father, child custody battles and joint child custody. 

Divorce and Child Custody: What is a Parenting Plan?

A parenting plan is a divorce parenting document that outlines the schedule or timeshare that will include each parent’s responsibilities to raise their child. A parenting plan can be lengthy and detailed or it can be brief and simple.
This article explains the contents and customs of divorce parenting plans. 

Divorce with Children - From One House to Two

The switch from one household to two can be unsettling to the child of divorce. Make each house as self-sufficient as possible for your child. In this manner, child custody and visitation can be defined more simply for any divorce settlement.
This article presents seven tips for converting both households into “homes”. 

Child Custody Basics – Rights, Residency, and Relationship

Child custody is a legal term that can represent the rights and responsibilities of divorced parents and their children, the residency or placement of the children, and/or the degree of relationship these children will have with each parent.
This article provides details about Child Custody in Divorce. 

Overcoming Obstacles While Being in a Custody Dispute

There is no winning a child custody battle if your child is caught in the middle.  Leave children out of the divorce game. Win child custody with the child’s best interest in mind. Children are the valued asset.
This article presents a first hand account of a custody dispute with the lessons that were learned from […]

Taking Care of Children After Divorce

After a marriage is over and you have custody of your children, you will have the responsibility for making the important decisions about your children’s upbringing and schooling. Parenting after divorce will include divorce visitation rights.
This article explores these issues including taking care of your spouse. 

Child Custody in a Divorce – What is Best for the Children?

Traditionally, the issue of who gets child custody was simple. Child Custody went to the mother. Today, however, a “Best interests of the Child” standard is applied to custody decisions.
This article describes in detail the factors involved in rendering a custody decision based on the best interest of the child. 

Tips to Minimize the Trauma of Divorce for Children

If you are in the midst of a contentious divorce and/or child custody battle, then take note if a few child therapy pointers that can minimize the negative effects of divorce.
This article presents a short list of key guidelines for children of divorce, including coexisting peacefully with your ex-spouse. 

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