Helping Your Children Adjust to Your Divorce

This article was written by Teresa Virani, Co-Founder of coparently – a scheduling and communication tool for divorced and separated parents to organize & manage shared parenting. Divorce is difficult for children of all ages. It’s a sad, confusing time for kids and causes a lot of stress, hurt and anger. Why are you splitting up? Is it my fault? What can I do to make it better? These are...

Make Your Child-Up Parenting Plan Today

When two parents split up, it can oftentimes be a difficult task to negotiate the roles in the children’s lives, and how things will change. Consider our divorce lawyers in Toronto to help you with this task. However, it is crucial that there is meaningful parent involvement from both parents in order to create a positive lifelong relationship with children. This may be achieved through...

Helping Separated Parents Communicate More Effectively

Divorce is never a pleasant topic, neither are the implications of it on the parties involved. However, it is safe to say that the children bare the brunt of it all in more ways than one. This is why it is so important to have a Toronto divorce lawyer present during the whole ordeal. Many of these children also end up feeling rejected and in some cases, children feel like they are the actual...

Getting Kids Out Of The Cross Fire

As traumatic as Divorce may be for the parents involved – it still does not come close to the trauma that the children experience during this entire process. The children caught in the process of litigation and custody matters often suffer mixed emotions and this in return affects them in many areas of their life. Aside from being exposed to parental anger and stress during the parenting...

Superior Legal Separation Strategies for Toronto Parents

For most spouses undergoing legal separation or divorce, child access and custody is a primary point of contention.  Daycare or school facilities and staff are frequent expressional outlets of emotional anguish for parents embroiled in acrimonious domestic relations disputes. Parents desire periodic reprieves from stressful child access and custody battles.  By the same token, children require...

Parenting Plans for High Conflict Divorces

Devising parenting plans for couples involved in turbulent divorces is very challenging. These couples communicate using contrived statements, which preempt the responses of the other. Each party seeks to rectify the perceived injustice of past deeds and with every move they intensify their mutual hatred, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. They use esoteric phrases and deliberately...

The Parenting Plan Worksheet

The Parenting Plan is a document that helps divorcing parents to make decisions about their children’s future. The worksheet lists major issues and helps parents to negotiate and resolve numerous issues about the care of their children after the marriage ends. By completing the worksheet, the divorcing couple creates their unique parenting plan. Important Questions that Need Answers One...

Where to Get Help in Formulating a Parenting Plan

Divorced couples may be separated but they still have a common task: the welfare of their children. Parents will have to set their differences aside in order to work towards the creation of a parenting plan. Studies have shown that children are more likely to develop to their full potential if their parents have minimal conflict and if they continue to cultivate a strong relationship with...