Parenting Help

  • Consistent Discipline Can be Difficult After Divorce

    Divorced parents face a number of challenges. Co-parenting after divorce means that you’re still sharing the parenting duties with your children’s other parent. However, because you’re no longer in a relationship together, you don’t have any influence over how they parent your kids. For sure, that can be very frustrating, especially when you don’t agree…

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  • Can CPS Really Just Come in And Take my Kids Away? (Part 2)

    Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. We understand that this is a really hard subject to read about, and for Michigan parents who are already battling Children’s Protective Services (CPS), it’s excruciating. However, like all battles, the better prepared you are, the better your chances of winning! So congratulations on being proactive, and choosing…

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  • Can CPS Really Just Come in And Take my Kids Away? (Part 1)

    Having your parental rights terminated is one of the most frightening things that could happen to a parent. Not to mention, one of the most heartbreaking! However, it’s also one of the most confusing, because the law in Michigan concerning termination of parental rights is very complex, and most people (including most attorneys) don’t really…

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  • How Do I Help My Special Needs Child During My Divorce? (Part 2)

    Divorce is tough for everyone affected by it. Certainly this is far more so for special needs kids and their parents. Welcome back to our discussion on the challenges faced by families with special needs kids during divorce. Having talked about the financial concerns that these families need to consider, we’ll be moving on to…

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  • How Do I Help My Special Needs Child During My Divorce? (Part 1)

    Divorce is hard for everyone. The challenges and difficulties that have to be overcome can be substantial. But for special needs kids and their parents here in and around Oakland County, those challenges are usually a lot more complex and can make the divorce process even harder. In addition to the emotional toll that divorce…

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  • Do Your Children Need Help Coping With Your Divorce? (Pt. 2)

    In the previous article here on our Oakland County Family Law blog, we looked at the first two items on our list of tools that parents can use to help their children navigate the turbulent waters of divorce. Because children so often struggle with the divorce process, but don’t have the coping skills to help…

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  • Do Your Children Need Help Coping With Your Divorce? (Pt. 1)

    Divorce is tough for everyone. But children seem to have a particularly rough time with breakups. Their family is dissolving right in front of their eyes and they don’t have any say in the matter. That’s so frightening and upsetting for a child. The result is that children who aren’t given ways to process their…

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  • Ways to Help Your Children Work Through The Pain of Divorce

    Every divorce is different, and every family is impacted in different ways by divorce. However, it’s often the children who seem to struggle the most with the change. How they react is determined by many factors, including their age, their personality type, and the circumstances of the divorce itself. All over Oakland County, our divorce…

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  • What Rights Do Oakland County Dads Have? (Part 2)

    In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked about the importance of fathers in their children’s lives, and took a look at the first two items on our ‘father’s rights’ list, namely child support and visitation. Moving forward, we are going to wrap this up with the last two issues – the establishing…

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