Mississippi law in Section 93-16-3(1), provides for grandparent visitation: (1) Whenever a court of this state enters a decree or order awarding custody of a minor child to one (1) of the parents of the child or terminating the parental rights of one (1) of the parents of a minor child, or whenever one (1) [...]
Categories: Child Custody, Children & Divorce, Legal, Visitation
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Protecting Yourself from a Passive-Aggressive Ex-Spouse Because it’s easy to get pulled back into situations and emotionally charged issues you worked so hard to extricate yourself from, protect yourself with these tips to keep hidden anger from seeping back into your relationship with your ex-spouse: • Watch out for emotional reasoning or “feel think,” [...]
Categories: Children & Divorce, Divorce, Emotions, Parenting, Stress
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Coach Judy’s Practical Tips: What to Avoid So Children Can Achieve Success If you could turn back the clock just before the relationship deteriorated or during the legal process, what would you have done differently to save the pain and anger you or your children may be experiencing then or now? Too often, relationship end [...]
Categories: Celebrity Divorce, Children & Divorce, Divorce, divorce court, Divorce Laws, Emotions, Love & Relationships, Parenting, Separation, Single Parents, step mother, step parent, Stress, Tips, Uncategorized, Visitation
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For years, I have had a philosophy of not entering into a custody action without some supporting testimony from a mental health professional. Often, there are issues reported by the children that can be brought out through the testimony of the mental health professional and one doesn’t want the other party to know this is [...]
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School admission forms become an issue in many custody cases. In some cases, a Mother involved in divorce is angry at the Father, so she doesn’t list him on the school form. In other cases, Father will list his new wife (the step mother) as the mother and neglect to list the children’s natural mother. These [...]
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Many factors are involved in determining the parenting arrangement after divorce, including but not limited to, the parents’ abilities to cooperate and communicate, and the parents’ historic roles during the marriage, and feasibility of a parenting arrangement considering the work responsibilities of the parents, and proximity of their homes after the divorce. Issues of abuse [...]
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Before a court has entered some form of order, each parent has equal rights to custody. Unfortunately, if parents choose to, they can play a vicious and destructive game of “keep away.” Sometimes a “keep away” strategy is necessary, but in such cases, court assistance should be sought as soon as possible. Until there is [...]
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Child abusers are masters of deception. They often disguise their abuse with careers of service, such as children’s ministry, or church, or school. They also conceal their character by attaching themselves to people whose reputations are beyond repute. People seem to assume that people with great character will only have those with great character around [...]
Categories: Children & Divorce, Emotions, home, Legal, Love & Relationships
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All too often, a female client will think about changing her name after we have entered the divorce. She wants to know how to do it. This is a shame, because it is easy to incorporate the name change in the Order of the divorce with one sentence and it is done! One consideration for [...]
Categories: Children & Divorce, Collaborative Divorce, Divorce, divorce court, Divorce Laws, Do-It-Yourself Divorce, How to Divorce, Tips
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The fact that Bill 16, Family Law Act has been passed is a sign that the traditional system needed reform. The new act addresses some of the fundamental problems in the system and we look optimistically to the impact it has on children and families in general. I do not think anyone can argue or [...]
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