With summer just around the corner, your thoughts may be turning to some time away. If you have just been through a divorce, it can bring a much-needed change of scenery. However, if you share children with your ex, you need to be aware that if you do not plan...
As a parent, you may already be familiar with “adverse childhood experiences,” or ACEs. These are experiences that can occur in childhood that cause so much toxic stress that they can follow a child into adulthood. They can affect a person’s emotional and physical...
Parents who are going through a divorce have to think about what’s best for the children. The issue is that they may not always agree on this. Sadly, children suffer when their parents can’t work as a team. It’s not always easy to work with an ex, but there are some...
As you go through a divorce, it can be really tempting to try and lash out at your ex-spouse through anger and frustration. Children often find themselves stuck in the middle of their parents as the process unfolds. When you don’t want to talk to your ex, it’s easy...
When you divorced, you and your co-parent received a court order regarding your children's living arrangements. Colorado law calls this order the allocation of parental responsibilities, but you might know it as a child custody or parenting time plan. The arrangements...
You want to move a significant distance from the town or city that you live in. Maybe you want to move out of the state entirely. The problem is that you are divorced and you share custody of your children. When you make it known that you would like to move, your ex...
For most of your child’s life, they’ve lived under the same roof with both their parents, but that’s about to change. You and your spouse are getting a divorce and this has put your child smack dab in the middle. This can be hard for your child to understand when they...
If you’re hoping you can divorce without affecting your kids, it’s essential to realize that is unrealistic. The breakup of their family will always have some effect. However, you can do things to minimize the negative ones. Make time to listen to your kids The time...
In some cases, divorced co-parents decide to take joint vacations after the marital split. This is because they have children who would like to still have family vacations even though the divorce has changed what their family looks like. The certainly isn’t for...
There are multiple aspects of divorce that are hard on children. Adjusting to living in new spaces and the change to their weekly schedules will be one challenge. Handling the change that the divorce creates in their dynamic with each of their parents will be another...
