Divorced Parents
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Lawyer – client relationship
How to handle a lawyer-cleint relationship
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Income Deduction Orders
This guide will help explain what an income deduction is, how it works and to whom it applies.
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When the other parent does not cooperate
How to handle the uncooperative parent
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Organization
How to organize your documents
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Deadbeat Parent
Advice for deadbeat parents
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Holiday Stress
Holiday stress avoidance tips
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Holiday connection alive- Divorced parents and holiday planning
Basic ideas for holiday visitation
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Handling the anger
tips on handling anger in divorce
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Sharing Responsibility
Tips to sharing the responsibilty of divorce parenting
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Document Organization
How to organize documents
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Notifying The other parent of an emergency
What to consider when an emergency arrises
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College education funding for the divorced parent
Investing in your child's college
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Contempt of court
Enforcement of the divorce decree
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Getting a divorce – and telling the children
how to tell the children you are getting a divorce
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Children and Abuse
Abuse and Children: Where to turn and how to report it
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Single Parent Dating : Take it one day at a time
Advice on Dating - taking it slow and not dating before you are ready
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Divorce is not easy
how to keep control after the divorce
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School help
getting a little help with back to school
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When the other parent doesn't give the location of the child.
what to do when the other parent does not tell you where the child is
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Recurring problems: Refusing to visit or talk
solutions to recurring problems: failure to associate with the other parent
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Summaries Part 2
Clips from previous articles published on Suite101.com
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Summary of the Top 5 Helpful Tips
A list of the TOP 5 things to remember to keep things cool in the custodial parenting
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Summer Vacation
items to make sure summer visitation goes smoothly.
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Divorced parent support on the web
List of places to go to get support.
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Keeping the Connection Alive
Tips to keeping the kids in touch with their other family
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Trying to Handle the Impossible Parent.
How to deal with the parent who doesn't share the responsibility
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Moving to Another State
Considerations on moving to another state
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Letters from the other parent
How to handle letters from the other parent.
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Deadbeat Parents
Child support and deadbeat parents.
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When the Ex Starts Dating Again
How to handle when the ex-spouse starts dating.
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After the Wedding What Should a Step Parent be Called
Changing a step parent's name
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The Death of a Custodial Parent
Custody rights when the custodial parent dies.
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Birthdays
Tips to handle a birthday in a divorced family.
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Non-custodial Parent: The Relationship is What You Make of It
The non-custodial parent: make it a better realtionship.
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Custodial Mom is too Greedy
A letter about a greedy parent.
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Documentation/Organization
Helping to organize/track events necessary to a divorvced parent.
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Vacations and Custodial Arrangements
What should you do when you go on vacation.
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Hiring a Lawyer
Considerations in choosing legal representation.
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Recommended Reading
Recommended reading list for the divorced parent
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Remove the emotion
Removing the emotional baggage from situations with an ex-spouse
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Mediation
Mediation: An alternative forum for solving disputes
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Tax effect, medical expenses and non-custodial parents
Sharing the medical expense deduction with the other parent.
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Happy New Year
A top 10 list of New Year's resolutions for the divorced parent
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Single Parent Dating : A checklist
A Dating checklist for the Single Parent
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Special Visitation with an Infant
Infant visitation during the holidays
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Taking a tax deduction
a tax deduction guide for divorced parents
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Taping a call
Simple tips on recording a phone call from the non-custodial parent
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For convenience sake
How to avoid using the non-custodial parent as just a baby-sitter
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Father’s Rights
a guide to father's rights
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Progress Reports and artistic endeavors
a few tips on sharing items regarding your child
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Grandparents are people too, but are they entitled to custodial
Grandparent rights are a heavily debated topic. This article sets out some of the issues under debate.
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Divorced parent guide to gift giving/receiving
Tips to gift giving/receiving
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Comments to avoid
Comments not to make regarding your ex!
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Visitation of an Infant
. Some custody battles begin with children that are infants, under 2 years. These kids require special handling that might not be addressed by the court or legal professional but might be the cause of worry.
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Moving
Here is a few things to check before the move to comply with divorce decrees and child support office requirements.
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"She does not live with me" -- A less than part-time parent.
Narrative of a personal experience that is too common- a parent that never participates in the life of a child.
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Understanding the ‘best interest" standard.
the consideration and standards applied by the court in determining custody, visitation, etc- "the beat interest standards"
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Back to school
10 tips for the "Back to school" divroced parent
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Modification (part 6) - Moving the judgment to a different state
This will be a discussion of a special consideration of a modification, modifying a judgment of a different state
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Modification (part 5) What you can expect emotionally in a modif
This will be a discussion of the expectations of a modification. Specifically, what you can expect emotional and substantively.
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Modification (part 4) Steps in modification -After the Forms
This is the second part of the procedure and focuses on what can happen once a mediation has been filed.
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Modification (part 4) Steps in modification -After the Forms
This is the second part of the procedure and focuses on what can happen once a mediation has been filed.
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Modification (part 3) Steps in modification-Forms
Procedural steps to modification- forms required
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Modification (part 2) What is modification ?
What is modifcation and when is the best time to start?
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Modification (part 1) Outline of modification
Modification- an outline
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An Obligation to a child
A divorced parent may sometimes feel like their child is just a obligation but perserverence and regularity may help your child realize much more.
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Holidays
Holidays can be a time for fun and family togetherness-BBQ’s, water-skiing, winter festivities, fireworks. However, these national holidays (New Year’s Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Independence Day, Labor Day and Memorial Day) are those holidays where more than the post office is closed, these holidays require that a change of visitation be observed.
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Where to go for help?
List of where to turn for help, short list of services that provide specialized and general assistance.
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Knowing your ex’s whereabouts during a visit.
Getting the address and phone number of your ex-spouse
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Income Deduction Orders
What is an income deduction order?
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Deadbeat parents
The number of deadbeat parents, ie. parents that do not pay their child support is high. Here is a little advice in ways to reduce those numbers.
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Single parenting Discipline
Displine for the single parent can be an issue. Consistancy, boundries and seeking help can be answers to difficult problems.
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The bribery visit
When your child is faced with "bribery" what are the best tatics to handle this issue.
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Common mistakes made when your child does not want to visit
Every divorced parent is faced with a child's unwillingness to visit. Don't make these common mistaks and make the unwillingness worse than it already is
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Summer camp? Vacation? School’s out but where does the child go?
How to make decision for summer visitation can be tough, keeping an open mind can make the decisions simplier and conflict to a minimum, some creative solutions and an open mind can make summer vacatation less stressful
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The "Cinderella" Story
Opening the lines of communication between custodial and non-custodial parents can help when a new step-parent re-creates the classic fairy tale.
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Sharing a Child
Sharing the responsibilty of a child might be second nature during the marriage bu extra steps might be needed after the divorce. Having children led healthy happy lives with influences from both parents is always the goal. Make the effort .
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Insurance and Medical costs.
Kids get sick, but can the costs be shared? Insurance and Medical Cost reimbursement can be a chore, but with a few simple guidelines this could be mastered.
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Supervised visitation: What is it and how does it work?
Domestic violence can present a problem in visitation with an abusive non-custodial parent. The answer in many cases is supervised visitation.
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Transportation and Custody: Whose responsibility is it?
A big issue of divorced parents is who pays for the children to visit the non-custodial parent that lives in a distant city. Here are a few steps to help deal with that issue.
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