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Parental Kidnapping With No Custody Order
Can a parent kidnap their own child? Is it parental kidnapping if there is no custodial order? Who gets custody in parental kidnapping cases? You will find answers to these and many other questions in this article.
How to Co-Parent with a Restraining Order
A restraining order, also referred to as a no-contact order, can have significant long-term effects on child custody and visitation arrangements. This post takes a closer look at how to co-parent children under these circumstances.
How to Get Supervised Visitation Removed
If one of the spouses has concerns about the other’s involvement in their child’s life, it might be a reason to seek supervised visitation. However, if you are the parent who gets supervised visitation – you may want to find ways to get the supervision requirement removed. In this article, you will learn why a person gets a supervised visitation and how to get it canceled.
What You Need to Know About Child Custody
Did you know that many parents reach mutual child custody agreements without lawyers and multiple court hearings? This post explains different types of custody arrangements, and provides some best practices for making a custody agreement without going to court.
How To Prevent 50-50 Custody
Joint physical or legal custody is not always the best solution for a child. After all, there are different circumstances in life. If you’re trying to avoid 50-50 custody, here’s what you need to know.
What to Do If My Ex is Manipulating My Child?
Are you dealing with a toxic ex-spouse who’s manipulating your child and poisoning your life? Read on to find out their favorite methods and how to resist them.
How Much Does a Custody Battle Cost?
Child custody cases are the most complicated to handle, and can come with unforeseen costs. This post helps to demystify how much you can expect to pay for a child custody battle and what basic costs you will need to cover.
When Your Ex Refuses to Co-parent
No matter the reason why your ex refuses to co-parent, there are always steps you can take to reduce conflict and put your child first. This blog covers a few best practices and tips.
I’m Jealous of my Husband’s Co-parent
Jealousy, on both the parts of the ex-spouse and the new spouse, is one of the most difficult problems to overcome, Dr. Jann explains.
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How to Deal with a Narcissistic Parent: 8 Essential Tips
If you think you were raised by a narcissist, this article can help you set boundaries, process your feelings, and work on healing.
5 Tips on How to be a Great Stepmom
The title of ‘Stepmom’ can be such an unenviable one. One minute you are cool, the next you are unfriended or simply disregarded. Here are 5 tips that can help. (5 min 35 sec read)
How to Respond to High Conflict Personalities
Since they lack self-awareness, high conflict personalities (HCP) make no effort to change their own behavior when things go badly. (3 min 10 sec read)
Divorced From a Toxic Spouse & Now Co-Parenting
There are a few things you will need to do to begin to manage during your evolving family when leaving a high conflict relationship and co-parenting. (3 min 45 sec read)
Respecting Each Co-parent’s Parenting Time
Respect differences in parenting style or practices unless it is a concern for your child’s safety. You can discuss concerns but remember: it’s a discussion. (3 min 21 sec read)
Co-parenting with a Bully
People believe that successful co-parenting involves a secret formula that transforms a nightmare ex-spouse into a garden-variety human being. This is not true. (2 min 59 sec read)
6 Tips on Communicating with a Narcissistic Co-parent
Learn 6 ways to communicate with a narcissistic co-parent and how a co-parenting app may be able to solve all them all. (3 min 47 sec read)
Co-parenting and Perfecting Child Exchanges
If I were to pinpoint the one thing in co-parenting that causes the most stress for the kids and me, it’s the exchanges. (4 min read)
S.W.O.T Analysis of Your Family
Breaking down your family into Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats gives you great perspective when coParenting. Dr. Debra Carter explains. (3 min 10 sec read)
Important Signs of Insecure Attachment
Are you co-parenting a child with signs of insecure attachment? Learn the different attachment styles and what you and your co-parent can do (3 min 31 sec read)
Co-parenting Guide: Planning and Setting Boundaries
Setting boundaries between stepparents and coparents is vital in any blended family dynamic. We have formulated a guide to help you through this process. (2 min 48 sec read)
Top 12 Benefits of Co-parenting
If you’re not sold on the value of coParenting for your kids, read this list put together by experts Kenneth H. Waldron, PhD and Allan R. Koritzinsky, Esq.
Co-parenting With Someone You Barely Know
You had a brief relationship and now you have to co-parent with someone you barely know…Dr. Janella Street, Psy.D. provides great tips to help! (4 min 3 sec read)
Co-parenting vs. Parallel Parenting
coParenting vs. Parallel Parenting: what’s the difference and which one works best for you? Maybe your situation falls somewhere in between? Find out here. (2 min 51 sec read)
My Co-parent is Causing Conflict in My New Relationship!
Keep your needy ex at a distance when you’re coParenting and in another relationship. Setting boundaries with your coParent will help your new relationship.(2 min 38 sec read)
How to Master Kid Exchanges With Your Co-parent
Things may not be 100% with your co-parent and you may have a thousand distractions. The result can be that your kid exchanges can be awkward, at best. (2 min 33 sec read)
HELP! Daughter Calls my coParent’s Girlfriend “Mommy”
This is a really common question when co-parenting — very few dads and moms like it when their child calls someone else, “dad” or “mom”. Dr. Jann Blackstone has tips. (1 min 40 sec read)
Toxic Co-parenting’s Effect on Kids
Concerned about how your conflict affects your kids? Debra Carter explains why you should be. (2 min 32 sec read)
My Child Doesn’t Want to Live with Her Mom
Children need to have positive relationships with both parents even if the child prefers one parent over the other. (2 minutes 13 seconds read)
Dad Absolved Of Paying Child Support Due To Parental Alienation By Mom
Where a custodial parent deliberately alienates a child from its non-custodial parent, the non-custodial parent’s obligation to pay support may be suspended.
10 Rules of Good Ex-Etiquette for Co-parents
After a break-up, parents often ask for a list, something to which they can refer to, that will help them deal with their ex in a positive way for the kids! (6 min 10 sec read)
Help! My coParent is Always Late!
My children’s mother is always late to exchange the kids! What are my options to make this stop? Can we do this with a mediator or coach?
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Meeting My Ex’s New Partner
Meeting your ex’s new partner is important for your kids and co-parenting relationship. Find tips on how to make this as seamless as possible. (2 minutes 44 seconds read)
Social Media and coParenting: The Do’s and Don’ts
Social media is being used against me during my custody case. Will I still be able to obtain legal custody of my child if my ex is saying bad things about me? (3 minutes 6 seconds read)
When Your Ex Refuses to Sell the House
You may decide to sell your property without the consent of your spouse. When accepting an offer, you’ll need signatures from everyone on the grant deed.(2 min 6 sec read)
My Co-parent Taught Our Kid to Lie. What Do I Do?
coParenting is a balance and sometimes our balance is off. Is it ever a good idea to have your child lie or keep secrets? Find out with Dr. Jann Blackstone.
Help! My New Boyfriend Is Jealous of My Ex
Dr. Jann Blackstone gives advice to a divorced mom about her jealous boyfriend and communication with her co-parent. This friction can be sensed by the kids. (2 minutes 58 seconds read)
When Your coParent Introduces a New Partner
One challenge in coParenting is the introduction of a new partner. Here’s how to keep your child in mind. (1 minute 40 seconds read)