No visit to Jeanne Coleman’s law office is complete without a quick chat with her office bird, a friendly cockatiel named Theo. Theo first chirped into Jeanne’s life in 2010 as a Mother’s Day gift from her daughters, Laura and Sarah. He was the store bird at a local pet store where Laura heard...
No divorce is emotionally painless. Very few are conflict-free. But if your divorce — probably like your marriage — falls into the high-conflict category of divorces, you may be married to/divorcing a spouse with a personality disorder and/or is highly manipulative. What is a personality disorder? My layperson definition would be simply a person whose...
For a variety of reasons, some parents don’t try to collect unpaid child support. Or maybe they try to collect and eventually give up — again for a variety of reasons. That’s really a personal issue between the parents so long as the custodial parent is adequately supporting the child. But children grow up and...
There’s no doubt that going through a divorce can be a crazy time. People often can be at their worst when their marriages are breaking up and they must negotiate serious life issues like joint parenting and fair division of property. But there is a difference between ordinary divorce angst and the type of behavior...
When I last wrote about grandparent visitation rights in Florida, the Florida appellate courts had declared the majority of the then-existing grandparent visitation statute unconstitutional. In 2015, the Florida Legislature revisited the issue and passed a new version of Chapter 752 Grandparent Visitation Rights. The new statute applies to only a relatively small subset of...
DIVORCING PARENTS AND THEIR ADULT CHILDREN A recent two-part blog addresses how adult children of divorcing parents react to and cope with the divorce of their parents. If you’ve read this blog topic and you are a divorcing parent with adult children, this blog is for you. The breakup of your long-term marriage is likely...
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