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…
It’s that time of year again – tinsel and gifts and eggnog and caroling in the snow with your family. Magical, right? Unless you’re recently divorced. In which case, fighting to spend time with your kids over the holidays can be more stressful than braving the crowds at the mall on Christmas eve! While it’s…
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…
Welcome back and thank for joining the Kronzek team again, as we discuss the difficulties faced by parents when deciding to stay together for the sake of their kids versus getting a divorce. No matter who you are, or how old your children are, this will be a hard choice. As we mentioned previously, there…
Deciding whether to stay together or get divorced is an incredibly hard choice. Add kids into the mix and the issue gets even harder. There are couples all over Oakland County who choose to stay together for the benefit of their children, though their marriages are unhappy. The reason behind this choice is because they…
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…
Unmarried fathers are often thought of as having the least amount of influence in the lives of their children. This is predominantly because, historically, it was the mother who was awarded custody when the couple parted ways. Also, it was the mother who was viewed as invaluable to the raising of the child. Thankfully, we…
In the previous article on adoption in Michigan, we opened the discussion about adoption consent laws. We talked about who is required by law to give their consent, the age at which the adopted child may consent to the adoption, and when parental consent isn’t needed. Moving on, here are four more things about consent…
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,…
In the previous article we talked about interstate child abduction, and what a Michigan parent should know about this subject. In this next segment we are going to go a little further afield, and discuss international child abduction. The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, which was passed in Michigan on January 12, 2015, addresses the…
