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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is a commonly accepted “truth” that the children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced themselves. After all, with rising divorce rates here in Michigan and all over the US, and the fact that children learn behaviors and lifestyles from their parents, this would seem an incontrovertible truth. As it turns out,…
Regardless of your culture or beliefs, milestones in the lives of your children, while sometimes stressful, are usually a source of great pride and joy. A Bar Mitzvah, a sweet sixteen party, a college graduation, a first communion, the birth of a grandchild or even a wedding, is a major event to be celebrated and…
