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Looking for advice about parenting through divorce? Understand your rights and responsibilities as a parent during a divorce and find articles on how to best support your children during the process. While every child is different, there are ways to make it easier for everyone involved.
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When Your Teen Refuses to Visit a Non-Custodial Parent
Divorce can bring about a lot of emotions and adjustments, especially when it comes to co-parenting. One common challenge many divorced parents face is when their teenager begins refusing to visit the non-custodial parent. Let’s delve into this complex issue and explore some steps you can take with empathy and understanding.
When Your Teen Refuses to Visit a Non-Custodial Parent
Divorce can bring about a lot of emotions and adjustments, especially when it comes to co-parenting. One common challenge many divorced parents face is when their teenager begins refusing to visit the non-custodial parent. Let’s delve into this complex issue and explore some steps you can take with empathy and understanding.
Out-of-State Visitation Rights
In our world of increasing mobility and economic volatility, it is not surprising that more and more families are moving across state lines. If you have an Order (e.g., a Divorce Decree, Custody Order, etc.), then you will need to review your Order carefully to understand your rights. For parents who have the exclusive right to determine the primary residence of the children, it is very likely that there is a geographic restriction on where you can live with your children.
Dealing with the Brokenness of Life (Amazing Life Lessons)
For the past 16 years, I have professionally lived my life in a world where day in and day out, I am sitting with people who are experiencing the brokenness in life. It can be brokenness from a broken promise, brokenness from a broken relationship, a broken heart. Sometimes it’s broken family relationships, maybe with children or grandchildren. In all of this brokenness, there are some amazing life lessons that I’ve learned.
How to Juggle Commitments as a Newly Single Parent
Divorce comes with many challenges, not least of which is how to handle commitments as a newly single parent? Here are a few tips.