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Ellen Schwartz & Maliha Janjua: Coercive Control and Kids
Season 2024 Episode 223
Ellen Schwartz spent 37 years as a family law attorney before she had a name for what she kept seeing. Cases that were not assaults, were not terrori…
1 year, 8 months ago
Male Victim Jon: Parental Alienation and Surviving the Holidays
Season 2024 Episode 222
A father knocks on the door every week for his scheduled visit. Nobody answers. His daughter sits at the top of the stairs knowing she will not be al…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tyra Juliette Schwartz: The Sky Is Red, and Teaching Self-Trust
Season 2024 Episode 221
Tyra Juliette Schwartz was nine when a teacher told her she would grow up to be a waitress. It was not said kindly, and it was not said about waitres…
1 year, 9 months ago
Kevin Hoffkins: Writing a Parenting Plan an Ex Can't Exploit
Season 2024 Episode 220
Somewhere in the plan sits a holiday clause that reads "as the parties agree." A year later they agree on nothing, and two lawyers are billing to arg…
1 year, 9 months ago
David Morneau: Fear, Emotion, and the Family Law System
Season 2024 Episode 219
Lawyers are trained to escalate. David Morneau puts it plainly about his own education: you do not give in, you never apologize, you always advance. …
1 year, 9 months ago
Melissa Spann: Spotting an Eating Disorder in Your Child
Season 2024 Episode 218
Rigidity is the signal, whatever shape it takes. Not thin, not obviously skipping meals, just increasingly specific: this food can be eaten, that one…
1 year, 9 months ago
Tanya Marie Dubé: The 3-Column Chart That Stops the Reaction
Season 2024 Episode 217
There is a reason your ex seems to read your mind. Tanya Marie Dubé's explanation is that they spent the relationship training you to be predictable,…
1 year, 9 months ago
Dr. Jill Leibowitz: Keeping the Conflict Away From Your Kids
Season 2024 Episode 216
Children in an amicable divorce sometimes tell Dr. Jill Leibowitz about the perks. Two rooms. Two sets of things. They will name the hard parts too, …
1 year, 9 months ago
Rebecca Stern: Mediating High-Conflict Divorce on Purpose
Season 2024 Episode 215
One of Lisa's clients spent forty-four thousand dollars on a single court motion. Later, representing himself, he settled the same kind of fight in m…
1 year, 9 months ago
Demetria Graves: Divorcing a Narcissist Without Losing the Judge
Season 2024 Episode 214
Fifteen to twenty matters can sit on a single day's calendar in a California family courtroom. That is the room your account of the last decade has t…
1 year, 9 months ago