While keeping a child’s relationship with their parents through custody and visitation arrangements is usually essential for their growth and development, it may not be the best choice for other cases. Sometimes, awarding custody to a child’s parents does not serve...
Child Custody & Visitation
4 tips for co-parenting over the holidays
As fall turns into winter, divorced parents everywhere are already starting to make their holiday plans. Early preparation is key when you’re co-parenting – because leaving your plans for the last minute is a recipe for trouble. If this is your first holiday season...
Making visitation-related court decisions in Kentucky
When one parent gets custody of the child during the divorce, the other parent could receive visitation rights based on the situation. Most of the time, the court promotes preserving parent-child relationships when settling custody and visitation issues. The judge can...
Can Kentucky courts deny a parent visitation?
Even if their marriage did not make it until the end, parents, both custodial and noncustodial, want to maintain and strengthen their respective relationships with their children. This is why child custody determination is a sensitive and emotional process for...
How can fathers achieve fair custody in divorce?
As a father, it is crucial that you stay present in your child's life--especially after a divorce. While mothers may have been more likely to receive primary custody of their children years ago, Kentucky laws today favor joint custody when it is in the child's best...
How does virtual visitation work?
Virtual visitation helps parents and their children to maintain contact through technology when they are not under the same roof. Most virtual visitation arrangements accommodate communication between a child and whichever parent they are not residing with on any...
Can your ex stop you from seeing your child?
Some relationships can go the long haul, but others just aren’t meant to be. It’s often best for adults to go their separate ways and start again, which is where divorce comes in. Nonetheless, a divorce can become much more complex when children are involved. It’s...
Tips to make your divorce smoother for your kids
Divorce can throw a wrench into the family routines you’ve worked so hard to build. Yet, routines can be adjusted, and if you and the children will be far better off if you end the marriage, this temporary transition period may be well worth the end result. The...
What if you and your co-parent disagree on important issues?
It is very common for married parents to disagree on important issues involving their children. They have to find solutions or compromises and work together. But this gets more difficult when you and your co-parent are divorced. Theoretically, you should still work...
Tips to ease the transition into co-parenting
The marriage between you and your former partner has come to an end. In some situations, former spouses might just wave goodbye and go their separate ways. It isn’t as simple as this for you because you have children together. You’re going to need to build an...