Parenting Time & Schedules
Halloween on Your Regular Weekend: Which Schedule Wins?
Learn how to read your custody order when Halloween falls on your regular weekend. The weekend doesn't automatically win.
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Putting Children First
Your Child's Therapist and the Custody Case: Who Gets to Know What
A child in therapy during a custody fight needs a safe room. What parents can ask, what stays private, and why the therapist is not a witness you get to recruit.
Preparing for Court
Talking to Your Child About an Upcoming Court Date
What to tell a child before a custody hearing, what to leave out, and how to keep her from feeling like the case is hers to carry.
Living with the Order
Youth Sports in Two Homes: Practices, Gear, and the Sideline
Fall sports mean practices, gear bags, and two parents on one sideline. How to keep the season about the child and not about the parents.
Parenting Time & Schedules
Winter Break in Two Homes: Settle the Schedule Before Halloween
Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, New Year's and two weeks off school. Why October is the right time to agree on winter break, what to put in writing, and how to keep your…
High-Conflict Co-Parenting
When the Other Parent Is Late for Pickup Again
Twenty minutes late, then forty. How to handle a chronically late co-parent without turning your child into the waiting room, and when lateness becomes something to document.
Living with the Order
Parent-Teacher Conferences When Your Child Lives in Two Homes
Fall conference season is here. How to show up for your child's teacher when you and the other parent are not on the same page, and what to do about the report…
Parenting Time & Schedules
Halloween in Two Homes: Whose Night Is It?
Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. How to split the night, the candy, and the costume between two homes so the child gets the fun and not the fight.
Living with the Order
When School Asks for the Custody Order
When the school asks for your custody order: what to give them, who gets the portal and the nurse calls, pickup disputes at the office, and keeping the child out of it.
Parenting Time & Schedules
When Your Child Is Sick on Your Parenting Time
When your child is sick on your parenting time: handoffs when someone is contagious, medicine and the bag, not using illness as a lever, and planning sick days ahead.
High-Conflict Co-Parenting
When the Other Parent Questions Your Child After Every Visit
When a co-parent quizzes your child after every visit: the difference between care and building a case, what to do instead, and moving adult questions to an adult channel.
Mediation & Settling Outside Court
Should Your Child Sit In on Mediation?
Should your child sit in on custody mediation? Why the room is built for adults, how a child's voice can be heard safely, and what to tell them afterward.