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How To Choose The Right Custody Evaluator When They Do Get Involved Just like most people getting married never plan for divorce, no one having children ever imagines a day when they will need to spend thousands of dollars to hire a stranger to make significant decisions impacting their children’s...
According to the American Psychological Association, parental alienation is “a child’s experience of being manipulated by one parent to turn against the other (targeted) parent and resist contact with him or her.” It is one of the most predictable and threatening concepts coming into the conversation during high-conflict divorce and/or...
After any separation and divorce, big changes occur so that people can move on with their lives separately. For some, it’s a double-whammy when it comes to parenting time with babies in custody battles, or if one of the parties is pregnant. How can the other parent have fair and...
How to Move On and Protect Yourself from Parental Alienation Claims It’s normal when a relationship ends for people to be angry and upset. In most cases, these feelings tend to subside with time. As things begin to settle down, people generally find ways to work together to make sure...
The Insidious Nature of Narcissistic Abuse and How To Stop Being Their Supply Have you ever noticed that your partner is really only happy when you’re sad, and then when you’re happy, they’re mad? Toxic people love when you are miserable, especially if they’ve made it so. They feed on...
Physically removing yourself is often not the most difficult part of getting out of a toxic relationship. What many people who have never been through it don’t realize is that once you’re out, an abuser’s voice remains in your head. Getting out of an abusive relationship is extremely difficult, and...
There is significant debate about how much a child’s voice and opinions should be taken into account during a high-conflict custody battle. Claims of parental alienation (one person’s attempt to turn the child against the other) are very common during high-conflict cases. One of the most terrifying experiences for many...
The Delicate Balance Between Minor’s Counsel/Attorneys for the Children and Guardian Ad Litems Custody evaluators can be a wide range of people – some appointed by the court, and others who must be paid for by the private parties. Often, protective parents fear the lack of training in the professionals...
Being in a constant “fight or flight” state is often the result of post-traumatic stress disorder, which has a significant physical impact on our bodies and our brains. For the many of us who have recently survived a toxic relationship, one of the aftereffects is being in a constant state...
The idea that “you will have your day in court!” and get justice is a myth. At least that’s how I see it. Now in my SEVENTH YEAR of court after getting out of a toxic marriage, I’ve had so many appearances that I’ve lost count. Most of these have...
(Note: this is part 2 of a 2-part series. To read part 1, click here) I found myself not-so-suddenly single – technically, “without a partner” is more accurate – in the summer of 2014. Those who have gone through something similar know about all of the stress that goes along with...
Whenever I need to forget about where I am, like during wisdom tooth extraction or stuck in traffic on I-95, I often focus on something from the past which makes me feel really good, like the best kiss I ever had. I’d become great at summoning up the inside of...
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