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Today as I walked from my office four blocks to the county courthouse, I thought about how my seemingly simple walk was a lot like getting divorced.  It also brought to mind the pieces of the collaborative team and process and how the collaborative experience can make the walk to... Read More →

Divorces are very tough on the family. You move from a one house family to a two house family. Your children may acquire step-parents and step-siblings or half-siblings. But beyond their nuclear families, are their extended family of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grand-parents. The... Read More →

The symptoms of grief and loss are often present in children when they experience a significant loss of relationship, whether through death, divorce, estrangement, relocation or abandonment. Multiple changes in the child’s life also evoke similar reactions. Children experience... Read More →

Everyone in the family will respond to the significant change in the family in their own unique way. It is natural for parents to be confused, frustrated, irritable, guilty, sad or even relieved during this period of time. Children have similar feelings and may demand to know... Read More →