Parenting Coordination

How are safe haven counseling orders misused in family court cases?  This is Part Four of a series I started in 2017 (please don’t judge me). I posted the first three posts about safe haven counseling, found here, here, and...

I’m so pleased to be a part of the Conversations About Domestic Violence in Family Law With Sixteen Experts, along with Bill Eddy and the Hon. Karen Adam. This series of six one-hour video interviews on domestic violence is the...

Some of the very best resources and instruction on domestic violence (aka Intimate Partner Violence or IPV) can be found at the Battered Women’s Justice Project website It’s actually an amazing site for a number of reasons. As we know,...

Way back in 2008, I wrote an article and a blog post about the First Right of Caretaking provision in Parenting Plans.   It’s also sometimes called “first right of refusal” (as if the child was a house being sold) and...

Picture this scenario:   Mother and Father go to trial; one parent has a mental health issue that has affected day-to-day functioning or parenting, and that issue is raised as a reason to award the other parent sole decision-making, or to limit...

This NY Times Modern Love column on March 7, 2021 (“My Two-House, Duffel-Bag Life”) was kind of incredible in describing a high schooler’s feelings about her parents’ divorce (which apparently happened at her age 7). Although it sounds like the...

The Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence has several upcoming trainings that can help meet the DV and child abuse requirements for those issuing reports in court matters — see their events calendar here. The National Council of Juvenile...

The Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence has several upcoming trainings that can help meet the DV and child abuse requirements for those issuing reports in court matters — see their events calendar here. More trainings are available at Unhooked...

The Paul E. Court of Appeals decision which was the subject of previous posts here and here was reviewed by the Arizona Supreme Court. On April 26, 2019, the Supreme Court clarified a few issues.  Some rulings relate only to the specific facts of that...

Continuing on the topic of the court’s authority when it comes to therapy, this post discusses the court’s overall authority to get involved with it:   Can the court order a parent into therapy?  Can a parenting coordinator?  Can the court...

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