From sharing photos of your vacation on social media and conducting our business to keeping up with current events, our cell phones have become an integral part of our day-to-day activities. Whether you are experiencing issues successfully co-parenting with your...
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What You Can Do If Your Ex-Spouse Withholds Visitation
While some divorced parents can successfully work together to raise their kids in two separate households, others are experiencing immense difficulties because of the animosity between the ex-spouses. There are many cases where the ex-spouse with primary custody...
6 Tips to Prepare for Your Child Custody Hearing
If you are involved in a heated child custody dispute, going to a court hearing is inevitable. Stepping foot inside of a courtroom can be a frightening, confusing, and stressful, especially since many parents are unfamiliar with the family law process. Child Custody...
4 Mistakes Often Made During a Child Custody Battle
Going through a divorce is an overwhelmingly emotional experience, particularly when children are involved. Tempers are at an all time high and, if you and your former spouse have a hefty amount of animosity and unresolved issues, this can be a recipe for disaster. It...
Mistakes Fathers Make During Custody Battles
Divorce is easily one of the most complicated, stressful, and contentious situations for anyone to go through, especially if there are children involved. In the past, courts were unfair in their judgement of child custody as they often awarded primary custody to...
How to Survive Your First Christmas Alone During Divorce
You’ve broken the news to your spouse that you want a divorce earlier this year. As the dust clears, you realize this will be your first Christmas morning you’ll be able to sleep past 6 am. You be ripped from your sleep to the sound of your son or daughter elatedly...
How the Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines Define “Parenting Time” as a Basis of Support Obligations
The Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines, effective as of August 1, 2013, are in place to minimize the impact of parents’ separation on the child/ren’s lifestyle and to promote joint parental responsibility in the raising of minor children. Child support payments...