How To Handle Tension at Big Family Holiday Gatherings When the extended family gets together for a holiday, amidst the fun, awkward quirks and tense conflicts sometimes come out. This year may be worse than most. The recent election brought...
How Loving Parents Sometimes Hurt Their Children by Fighting for Custody One caveat as we begin: If one parent is actually abusive or otherwise harmful to the children, then the better parent’s avoiding the custody fight will not put the...
Best Tips For Moving When You’re Going Through A Divorce by guest author Aimee Lyons Moving can be a tough process for anyone, but when you’re going through a divorce, it can be even more emotional. For most people,...
Using Mediation to Set Boundaries by guest author Susan Oberman co-parenting tents The details of everyday life when parents live separately (or even when they live together), can be overwhelming. The complexities of children’s schedules and parent’s work obligations make...
Retired Judges Don’t Mediate Divorces People need to know about the huge difference between real, ethical, early or middle or late mediation and the service that groups of retired judges offer, which they erroneously call mediation. What they do is...
The Divorce Dance: Taking the Lead When divorcing, both parties need to understand their financial, emotional, and legal situations. For decades Stan Corey, author of The Divorce Dance, has been educating divorce clients about their financial situations and about the...
Family Mediation Can Help with a Wide Variety of Issues Mediation can help a couple or a larger set of members of a family develop a plan or agreement about resolving a variety of issues. Some examples: how to handle the...
DIY Divorce? A few couples handle their divorces entirely on their own. Many couples can work out the terms of their divorce with just a little professional support. In a confidential setting, a professional family mediator can help each party...
Marriage Mediation — Making Your Marriage Happier and Healthier COVID-19 Note: Mediation services are available online. When does marriage mediation make sense? when different spending patterns are threatening a marriage when loss of a job and long unemployment have caused...
Best of Burke Award We did not even know that we had been nominated, but Colin Family Mediation Group LLC won the Best of Burke Award in the Legal Services category in 2015 and again in 2016! It is wonderful to...