If you have some concern about how your children may adjust to their post-divorce living situation, you may want to explore nesting. This relatively new concept keeps the children in the family home while having each co-parent rotate in and out at the beginnings and...
Child Custody
Should divorced parents live near each other?
As a divorced parent, your children’s emotional well-being likely represents one of your major concerns. As reported by Mydomaine.com, ongoing evidence-based research suggests that if you and your former spouse live within an hour’s drive from each other, this can...
Do not let screen time affect your co-parenting relationship
In the past few decades, parents have had to walk a fine line between allowing their children to use electronic devices and preventing the potentially serious consequences of too much screen time. Still, if you share custody of your children with a co-parent, the two...
The benefits of establishing paternity
When married couples have children, the state presumes the mothers’ husbands as the fathers of their children. The state makes no such assumption when unwed couples have children. Therefore, fathers must act to ensure and protect their relationships with their kids....
How to prepare your kids for a custody swap
If you share custody of your children with your ex-spouse, you likely must exchange the kids at the beginnings and ends of your scheduled parenting time. To minimize potential conflict, you should put some effort into choosing the right hand-off location and commit to...
How does parental alienation syndrome impact your child?
Divorcing parents in Texas have to deal with a difficult living situation after the fact. It is often hard for one or both parents to adapt to a co-parenting strategy in the aftermath of a divorce. This is particularly true of high-tension divorces. Some parents may...
Will my children have long term impacts from my divorce?
Many have reported the potential negative effects that divorce has on children, often citing studies showing decreased academic performance, psychological issues or even negative health impacts. However, recent research has demonstrated that these consequences do not...
3 facets of a good custody hand-off location
If you share custody of your children with an ex-spouse, you want to minimize conflict as often as possible. Nevertheless, the location of the child custody exchange may be a source of contention. When drafting your parenting plan or negotiating a custody agreement,...
Is nesting right for us?
The most common form of child custody arrangement after divorce is co-parenting. This is because having both parents actively involved in raising a child is, for the most part, the most beneficial situation for said child. However, co-parenting is rife with...
What is parental alienation?
Like all divorced spouses, you probably had some legitimate reasons for ending your marriage. If you do not get along well with your former partner, though, you do not want your marital problems to affect your children negatively. After all, you and your ex-spouse...