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We’ve talked before about how a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) can sometimes be important to a child custody case. Parents are often understandably nervous before the GAL’s first visit to their home because so much rides on this person’s impressions of you and your parenting skills. Take a moment to review two basic tips for the GAL’s first visit: 1.…
Divorce is rough on all of the parties involved, but its effects can be especially harsh on the children. Kids of all ages grieve the loss of an intact family, but sometimes the children lose far more than that. The bigger the changes, the greater the loss Kids often sense that their parents are splitting up long before the divorce…
You don’t have to be a psychologist to note the powerful links between depression and divorce. These two facts of modern life intertwine in several ways: 1. Depression leading to divorce When one of the two partners experiences depression, it triggers a destructive chain reaction. The clinically depressed person loses a lot that made him or her attractive to and cherished…
When you’re in the middle of a difficult custody battle, it probably already seems like there are already too many people involved in your family’s private business — so it probably seems like an unnecessary complication to add another voice to the mix. However, a Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) may be exactly the voice that the court needs to hear…
There’s a lot of advice out there on how to save your marriage — some of it might even work. However, one idea that’s often suggested is going on a shared vacation in order to try to reconnect and rekindle the romance together — and that advice, according to many lawyers, might actually toll the bell on your marriage for…
Divorce is never a pleasant experience. It’s stressful for everyone involved, and the time and cost can be draining. However, you may not realize you have options for going through the divorce process. Not every divorce needs to be a hard fought battle ending in litigation. There are ways to reach amicable solutions that work for everyone involved. Mediation Mediation…
Domestic violence can take a number of different forms — and while abusers seldom kill their own children, they will harm or threaten to harm a child as a way of abusing the mother. Sometimes, the child dies. That’s what experts believe happened in the case of a 7-year-old in Pauoa recently when his father, who was in a fierce…
The notion that you should suddenly be required to have to have a parenting class just because you’re getting divorced may seem a little insulting — after all, you’ve been doing the job since your oldest child was born, and a divorce isn’t going to change that. However, parenting as it relates to divorce is more about how to provide…
If you and your spouse own a business together, that can definitely make a divorce more complicated. To ease frustrations and make certain that assets are divided fairly, it may be time to add a business appraiser to your divorce team — especially if one spouse plans to pull out of the business and wants compensated for his or her…
When you think of domestic violence in Hawaii, the picture that pops into your head might be one of a husband battering a wife. Spouse abuse certainly is one way this crime manifests in our culture, but it is not that’s the only scenario to which the term can be applied. Abuse can take many forms, and by legal definition,…