Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, March 13, 2015. In our post earlier this week, we discussed the common co-parenting mistake of asking your kids to keep secrets from their other parent. While many divorced parents do this, it is a mistake because it can put your children in an awkward and even emotionally traumatizing position. Choosing sides isn’t something kids should have to do. In today’s post, we’ll discuss a similar co-parenting problem that can be even more damaging to children: badmouthing their other parent. Although you probably have some legitimate grievances with your ex-spouse, your

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. One of the fundamental struggles of sharing child custody is the need for cooperation and communication between co-parents. The reason this is difficult, obviously, is that recently divorced spouses often have high amounts of animosity toward one another. Unfortunately, children are the ones who suffer most when there is any fighting or lack of cooperation between their divorced parents. And things can get even more dicey when mom and dad ask the kids to keep secrets from their other parent. The phrases “don’t tell your mother” and “don’t tell you

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, March 5, 2015. It’s clear that we now live in the data age. So much information can be recorded, stored and analyzed that researchers are now able to observe behavior patterns like never before. Whether all of these studies are valuable, however, is a matter of some debate. As just one example, a recent study found that children whose parents recently separated or divorced are more likely to drink sugar-sweetened beverages (like soda) than children living in homes with still-married parents. Although the results of this study are arguably trivial, the study itself