Tax Law and Alimony: Decide Now! A Big Change Arrives on January 1, 2019 By Virginia L Colin Decisions about alimony, also known as spousal support, are sometimes hard to make. Nevertheless NOW, before the end of December 2018, is...
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...
Tidings of Comfort for People in Transition by Guest Author Sharon Zarozny It’s holiday time, and if you’re in the midst of a major transition, it can be one of the most challenging (certainly not “the most wonderful”) times of...
Our Mission sisters Colin Family Mediation Group (CFMG) has seven certified, professional family mediators ready to help families in Virginia resolve disagreements and stay out of court. Our primary mission is to help family members solve problems. We can help...
Your Child’s Graduation After a Divorce My daughter inspired this article. Her father and I separated when she was just 2 1/2 years old. She cannot remember a time when her family was just one family in one house. When...
Co-Parenting With Your Ex, Mindfully For many separated, divorced, or never-married parents, this is not easy. Ellen Kellner, author of The Pro-Child Way®: Parenting with an Ex, focuses on our greater spiritual existence and how it applies to fostering what 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...
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...
Ten More Co-Parenting Tips (part 4) by Guest Author Elinor Robin, Ph.D. with a little editing by Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. one boy 31. Consider occasionally separating your children in order to give each parent some individual time with each child. 32. Introduce...
Does Divorce Mediation Work? Source: TopCounselingSchools.org Virginia L Colin, Ph.D. is a Professional Family Mediator certified by the Virginia Supreme Court. She is not an attorney or a therapist. For a free consultation about whether family mediation would be helpful for...
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