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Preparing to tell your children about divorce

Even if you know a divorce is an answer to your marriage problems, you might feel concerned about its impact on your children. Acknowledging that changes to your family dynamic will affect your children can help you prepare for the challenges ahead. Telling your...

How can you avoid conflict during a divorce?

Dissolving a marriage is a tense experience. Feelings between both parties are bound to fray. Keeping conflicts at bay produces the smoothest results. If you are getting a divorce, use some strategies for maintaining civility. Communicate calmly Angering your...

How can you provide your child with stability through divorce?

Going through divorce is difficult for every part of the family. This includes the children, though they have a less active role. Parents want to prioritize their child's safety and well-being, even through the difficulties of divorce. The best way to start is with...

When should you tell your child about the divorce?

As a parent who has recently started the process of divorce, you now turn your attention to your child. What should you tell them about the upcoming split? When should you tell them? Is there a right time, a right place and a right way to do it? While there is...

Focusing on your child: parenting styles after divorce

Children learn by watching their parents. When mom and dad constantly argue or respond to the other with apathy or disrespect, it might affect how their children begin interacting with others. If you and your partner decide that a Pennsylvania divorce is the best...

Is this parental alienation?

When parents go through a divorce, it is impossible to keep track of every single thing that happens. Unfortunately, spiteful and bitter parents may use this time of distraction as a way to drive a wedge between their child and co-parent. This act - parental...

How do you tell your child about the upcoming divorce?

When you begin to handle matters related to divorce, it often gets so overwhelming that you cannot even maintain your own mental health and well-being. As a parent, though, you also have your child's health and well-being to consider. One of the first hurdles you will...

Important lessons from high profile divorces

While high profile divorces in the news, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates announcement in May of 2021, might seem far removed from the lives of most people, they do impart some valuable lessons. The first, of course, is that it can happen to anyone. The second is...

What is nesting?

For many Americans, one of the most challenging aspects of divorce is rebuilding your life after the ink has dried on the page. Especially if you and your ex-spouse are parents, it is highly likely you will hold your children in joint custody. While this decision is...

Appealing a child support order

If you currently owe child support, or you are in the midst of a divorce and you worry about your ability to make payments in the future, it is vital to explore various issues related to this facet of family law. Sometimes, non-custodial parties can modify their child...

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