I don’t want his girlfriend babysitting my kids. What can I do?

Because of the tie to child support, it’s pretty common that dads will ask for more parenting time than they intend to exercise.  Sometimes, they just won’t show up at all.  In other cases, though, they’ll take their parenting time, only to ask someone else (usually, their mother or a new girlfriend) to watch the...

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Right of First Refusal: Potential Issues

I’ve said it before; I really like a right of first refusal.  But that doesn’t mean that issues can’t arise when you implement a right of first refusal provision in your separation agreement or court order!  All KINDS of issues can come up in family law cases and, I am sorry to say, to the...

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Dealing with in laws after divorce

  Like entirely too many things in life, there’s no rule book for how to handle certain things after divorce. Before I go too far, allow me to say one thing. Actually, I’m going to give it a header tag, so that it’s bigger than the rest of the text, and so that it really...

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