Category: Parenting After Divorce
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My ex is a Really Crappy Parent! What Can I do to Change Them? (Pt 2)
Hello and welcome back. We’ve been talking about the struggles parents face when they get divorced and have to co-parent with an ex they don’t like and don’t think is a good mom or dad to their kids. Unfortunately, as we explained in the previous article, you can’t change other people, the only person you…
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My ex is a Really Crappy Parent! What Can I do to Change Them? (Pt 1)
This is a question we hear a LOT! People who divorce their spouses because they can’t stand each other any more, battle it out over how gets the kids and how often, and then resent the fact that they have to coparent with an ex they despise. We get it. It’s an incredibly frustrating situation. …
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What Michigan Parents Need to Know About Interstate Custody.
Most Michigan parents who get divorced have to deal with the frustrations of custody agreements and parenting time orders at some point or another. But very few of them ever have to deal with the complexities of interstate custody – that is, figuring out a custody agreement that takes into account parents who live in…
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It’s Your First Summer Since The Divorce. So What Now? (Pt 1)
For people moving on in life after a divorce, they tend to encounter a lot of ‘firsts’ as they work to restructure their new life. The first Christmas since the divorce. You’re child’s first birthday since the divorce. And as we head into the month of June – the first summer since the divorce. It…
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 2)
Hi there, and welcome back. We’ve been discussing the issue of parental alienation, and how your ex can manipulate your kids into changing their minds about how they feel for you. It sounds inconceivable, but it happens more often than you’d believe, and the results are truly tragic. In the previous article we discussed the…
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Ways Your ex Can Alienate You From Your Kids’ Lives After a Divorce (Pt 1)
If you follow our blog, then you’re already familiar with the reality of toxic parenting, and parental alienation syndrome (sometimes also called “malicious mother syndrome” or “malicious parent syndrome”) In essence, it’s when a child feels and expresses a very strong dislike (which can even manifest as hatred) for one of their parents, as a…
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Are You in Danger of Having Your Parental Rights Terminated in Michigan (Part 1)
As attorneys who do a lot of family law, and a lot of CPS defense, we work with many parents who are at risk of having their parental rights terminated. Sometimes it’s a child abuse case that starts as a CPS investigation and grows to include the cops and criminal charges. Sometimes it’s a high…
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Toxic Co-Parenting: Heartbreaking Facts You Need To Know (Pt 4)
Thanks for joining us again for the wrap up of this discussion on co-parenting with a toxic ex If you’re just finding this series now we recommend you take a couple of minutes and get caught up so you don’t miss any of our important tips and pointers… And now that you’re back, we can…
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Toxic Co-Parenting: Heartbreaking Facts You Need To Know (Pt 3)
Welcome back. We’ve been talking about the issue of toxic parenting, and how very hard it is to co-parent with a toxic ex. And if you’re curious, a toxic person usually refers to a person with narcissistic tendencies, but can also mean an ex who is just so manipulative, poisonous and conflict driven that they…
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How Social Media Affects The Way We Parent Our Kids (Pt 3)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about how social media affects our parenting choices. If you’re only finding this series now, we recommend that you spend a few minutes getting caught up here, and then we’ll pick up where we left off last time on the issue of spanking, with…