When you’re a victim of domestic violence, there are many ways to get help. Unfortunately most people don’t seek help until it’s already too late. Knowing your options is important. You should never feel that you are powerless, even though…
Domestic violence laws are an important protection for people living in America, to make sure that they can feel safe and secure in their own homes, as indeed they should be. Yet these nobly-intentioned laws are among the most over-used…
The most important factor in most divorces is the matter of child custody. Ideally, when there is no reason to the contrary, parents should have joint custody of their children, but this is not always (or even usually) possible, because…
Prior to the 20th century, people didn’t get divorced much. It was socially taboo and usually difficult to obtain a divorce. If there was any dispute over custody of the children from the marriage, it was often granted to the…
Broken families are hard to mend, and some wounds never heal. We all like to think that these kinds of problems won’t affect our lives-they’re things that happen to other people who aren’t as cool as us-and then suddenly the…
Divorce is never simple or clean, no matter how amicable things may appear to be, or how much you’re both in agreement about the need for change. In fact, it’s extremely rare that things go that well, but supposing that…
