It can be a challenge splitting shared time between co-parents post-divorce. This intensifies during the holiday season, with making sure both parents get to have celebrations with their children. Parents may need outside help in drawing up a fair schedule or thinking
As part of a recently launched campaign, Helping Kids Cope with Divorce, we interviewed three prominent parenting experts about their advice for divorcing parents, exploring the best way to break the news to your children about your separation, what can you do
When parents split up, there are countless decisions to be made about the future arrangements for their children. Chief amongst which is where the child will live, and with whom. Depending on the child’s age and capacity for understanding the consequences of
In this article, I would like to look at some common and most frequent mistakes couples going through divorce and separation make vis-à-vis their children: Using child as a messenger, mediator or spy. The sad thing is, when you engage in any
In our extensive experience, divorced or separated parents become anxious for many reasons when one of them wants to take their children abroad. There are only two circumstances in which your spouse can take them out of the country for up to
Here are tips for parents, and divorce professionals to help keep divorce out of the schools. Children bringing their parents’ divorce drama into the classroom is disrupting. It wastes teaching time and can cause other students to lose focus on their lessons.
Married and unmarried fathers have the same rights and responsibilities for children as mothers – as long as the child was born after 2004 and the father is named as father on the birth certificate. Either parent can be the “main carer”
Did you get divorced this week? Do you know how many other couples did the same? Well in 2016, sorry I don’t have the numbers for 2017, I guess it takes a while to calculate the figures, but if you did divorce
Becoming a parent is the most joyous and rewarding moment of your life, but it can also be the most difficult challenge that you are ever tasked with, and if you separate from the parent of your children, you may well think
A fifth of unstable marriages in the Yorkshire region are held together due to concerns over children, new research suggests. In a survey conducted by Graysons Solicitors, 22.3% of respondents said their children would be the main factor holding them back from instigating
When relationships break down, sharing the care of children can be complex and fraught with emotions. In the first instance both parents should be encouraged to discuss how best arrangements can be reached to enable the children to benefit from the love
“Remember that children are grieving in their own way and they have this completely different perspective, because the parents are both their parents, so unless there’s been real difficulty with one parent, they’re feeling very sad about both of their parents, so
