Shared Parenting? A Change in Virginia’s Laws In April 2018 Kentucky became the first state to require courts to use a rebuttable presumption of shared parenting in cases of separation or divorce. Translated into language still often used in Virginia,...
Financial Divorce Infographic This comes from the U.K. but applies to most of the U.S. Whether the Court requires you to attempt inexpensive, non-coercive Family Mediation varies by state and county. Even within one courthouse, some judges may routinely order...
Shared Parenting Recently I had a long conversation* with Dr. Ned Holstein, Founder and Chair of the National Parents Organization (NPO). NPO seeks better lives for children through family law reform that establishes equal rights and responsibilities for fathers and...
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Title: From The Simple To The Complex, Mediation Can Help by Guest Author Joe Dillon dividing house ownership? If you’re contemplating a divorce and thinking about mediating, you may be thinking it all sounds too good to be true. After all,...
Why I Became a Family Mediator by Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. The short version? It’s a calling. Here is the longer version: My first clue about what I should be doing came late in the 1990′s, when I learned...
Recommendations for Divorce Reform sisters Many people still think divorce must be handled through attorneys and litigation. A large number of experts disagree. Deborah Moskovitch recently summarized some of their recommendations in a Huffington Post article. Here, with Deborah’s permission,...
Too Poor to Get Divorced? Unlikely. separating Once I read a news article that said divorce is so expensive that many low-income Americans cannot afford it. Although this may be true for some extremely poor people, almost any pair of...
How Financial Assets Are Divided During Divorce Settlements | Divorce Property Settlements by Dave Landry Jr. and Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. (mostly Dave) money If you have decided to divorce, that was probably a very difficult choice to make. Divorce...
How to Do Well in a Custody or Visitation Hearing In Virginia, when custody and/or visitation are in dispute, judges use known criteria to discern what will be best for a child. The factors they weigh include: the age and...
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