Co-Parenting
{2 minutes to read} A separating or divorcing family needs to create a parenting plan to determine how they will share time with their children on weekdays, weekends, holidays, and vacations. It takes some effort to draw up these plans so that each parent can have meaningful time with them and ensure that transitions between…
Read MoreCreating a parenting schedule for you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse may present some challenges, especially when each of you wants to have the children for a maximum amount of time. In this video, we explore a number of options from which divorcing parents can decide what will work best for their family. Co-parenting and sharing…
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Creating co-parenting plans is a formidable task all on its own, but if you have children, one of the aspects you will have to decide is how you will handle special days, and especially holidays with them. In this video, I share a number of creative ways divorcing parents have chosen to ensure that…
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{Read in 2 minutes} Co-parenting after divorce requires frequent communication between parents to ensure smooth transitions for their children between the two homes, to keep each other informed of the children’s extracurricular activities, and any important concerns involving them. Occasionally, parental exchanges may become tense, and include negative undertones and criticism, which place the children…
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{Read in 4 minutes} I was invited by Michael Lang to contribute to his recently published, multi-lingual book Family Conflict During a Pandemic: Stories of Struggle and Hope, co-authored with Peter Nicholson, in which mediators and other professionals came together to support families around the world. For this purpose, I chose two examples of divorcing…
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{3 minutes to read} Some divorcing couples do not want to spend time and energy discussing details during the mediation process. In the midst of emotional trauma, they just want it over and done with. They do not want to discuss what seems like trivial details, which would just delay putting an end to their…
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{4 minutes to read} Creating a parenting schedule for divorcing spouses is not an easy task when each of them wants to have the children for as much time as possible. Parents can agree on a primary custodial parent who will have the children on more overnights than the non-custodial parent, or they can opt…
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{3 minutes to read} Co-parenting after divorce is most successful if you can agree with your former spouse on similar rules regarding your children’s activities and schedules. If you can also align your expectations on issues such as school and homework, meals and bedtimes, and extracurricular activities, your children will adjust more easily as they…
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{3 minutes to read} I was invited to speak on a panel about the challenges that families encounter when, after a divorce, one parent wants to move to another country with the children. In the role of the mediator, I presented three cases that I mediated where the couples were all expats who had at…
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{3 minutes to read} A married couple with children had agreed that one of them would be the stay-at-home parent while the other would be the breadwinner. Fast forward to divorce. The parent who is working outside of the home, and now wants out of the marriage, has requested to have the children 50% of…
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