Navigating travel with children when you share custody with your co-parent, especially over the holidays, can add some bit of complexity to your plans. For instance, your itinerary may involve crossing state borders, traveling out of the country and/or a prolonged...
Child Custody
Ohio lawmakers consider bill on equally shared parenting
Increasingly, divorced parents are sharing time and responsibility of their children as equally as possible. Laws, however, often don’t keep up with the culture. Legislators have to take it upon themselves – often spurred on by their constituents – to update the laws....
How does virtual visitation help long-distance parenting?
In today's tech-savvy world, long-distance co-parenting has found a beacon of hope. Virtual visitation bridges the distance, ensuring the precious parent-child bond remains unbroken, no matter the miles between them. Parenting has always come with its unique set of...
3 mistakes that could hurt your final child custody orders
Matters involving children are some of the most challenging aspects of divorce. When dealing with a breakup, the last thing you may want is to negotiate with your spouse over child custody and visitation. Unfortunately, parents must negotiate and find a way to agree...
Why is shared parenting beneficial?
Going through a divorce with children changes priorities, as parents consider them in every step they take. Every decision in such a divorce should be in the child's best interest. And how the kids will be raised is one of the crucial matters. With different types of...
Building a successful co-parenting relationship
The romantic relationship between you and your former spouse just wasn’t working out. After several efforts to get things back on track, you both realized that it was never going to happen. Divorce was the only feasible option left, so you went down that path....
What you need to know about modifying custody orders in Ohio
It is possible to change your current child custody arrangement if there has been a substantial change in circumstances since a family court judge issued the existing orders. For instance, you may have been relegated to supervised visitation in the past because of one...