Your approach to your family law litigation matters. Whether that’s your initial divorce, modification action, or contempt, how you see your former partner and how you treat them during the litigation has a lasting impact on your life and your family. This person,...
Families
All Flights Lead to Home
Summer comes to a close, and only a few days remain before the school year starts up once again. Where had the weeks gone? The trunk of her car is filled with bags of school supplies: number two pencils, college rule paper, a red folder, a ruler, an algebraic...
Concierge Referral List
It’s pretty common that within a marriage there develops a division of labor between the spouses. One might be in charge of the finances and filing taxes. One might be responsible for all things childcare. Or home maintenance, or car maintenance and insurance, or...
Protecting Children Around Guns
Changes to the gun laws require changes to how we protect ourselves, but it also requires changes in how we protect our children. Studies show, having firearms in the home dramatically increases the risk of unintentional shootings, suicide, and homicide. Last Tuesday,...
Our Hardest Trials; Our Saving Graces
In my prior experience (I used to be a criminal defense attorney) I had a unique opportunity to witness variety of responses to being accused of a crime (or crimes). There were times that those clients were calm and accepting; they understood how they’d participated...
Adopting Feelings- Part One
On a sunny, cool fall afternoon in Marietta, a young woman wandered aimlessly down her driveway. As she stared out into the empty cul-de-sac, she heard the smack of a baseball hitting an old leathery glove. The sound brought her back to reality. Looking into the...
New Year, New Life
The new year brings with it a time of reflection and making resolutions for the new year. You may have considered divorce prior to the holidays but wanted your kids to have one last holiday season together as a singular family unit. You may have hoped that the magic...
Halloween, the forgotten holiday on child custody parenting plans
Witches riding broomsticks. Carving jack-o-lanterns. An overdose of candy corn. And watching Hocus Pocus for the 50th time. These are just a few things that are commonly associated with Halloween. Halloween is more than just uncanny movies and an overindulgence of...
Unexpected Consequences
We live in a powerful age in which life could go on, or it could not. There is much to talk about in this space. Global Warming. Infrastructure bill. Voting Rights. Slow moving coup. Pandemic. Supply Chain. Uneven wealth distribution. Quality of Life choices. Emerging...
Being, Not Just Doing
It seems that it was just a few weeks ago that we were going about our normal lives. (It was.) We jumped out of bed; hurried to get the kids off to school; rushed to work; put in our full-time plus; hurried home to get the kids; get them fed and off to their...