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Dr. Barb Hughson and Dr. Wayne: Kids, Boundaries, and Trauma
Season 2024 Episode 113
Two teenage sisters wanted to spend part of the summer with their father rather than all of it, and had no idea how to say so. Dr. Barb Hughson spent…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jacob Schuman: Frozen Embryos, Consents, and Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 41
A client of ours was pregnant, had embryos in cryostorage, and asked a question nobody on our side had a ready answer for: can the parenting plan say…
2 years, 5 months ago
Brian Pakpour: Parenting Plans for Babies and Infants
Season 2024 Episode 112
California Family Code section 3044 says that once a parent has been found to have committed abuse against an intimate partner, custody is presumed a…
2 years, 6 months ago
Raiford Palmer: How to Move a Stalled Divorce Forward
Season 2024 Episode 111
Divorces stall for reasons that have nothing to do with the law. One spouse isn't ready to be divorced. A lawyer bills the fight instead of ending it…
2 years, 6 months ago
Diana Canas: Supervised Visitation, and Why It Can Help You
Season 2024 Episode 110
Ordered into supervised visitation, most parents assume they have been branded unfit. Diana Canas, who has supervised these visits for 25 years, spen…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rebecca Ishida: Lying by Omission and the Double Life
Season 2024 Episode 109
Rebecca Ishida asks the question that stops a lot of people cold: if you had known, would you have chosen differently? That is what lying by omission…
2 years, 6 months ago
Rudy A: Rebuilding After a 20-Year Marriage Ended
Season 2024 Episode 108
Six months is how long Rudy A spent at the bottom of it. His parents were not speaking to him, old friends had stopped returning calls, and the meeti…
2 years, 6 months ago
Liz Reese: How to Keep the House in a Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 107
No lender will count child support or alimony toward your loan on the strength of a court order alone. They want to see the money arriving, month aft…
2 years, 6 months ago
Barb Hughson & Wayne Benenson: Will My Kids Be Okay?
Season 2024 Episode 106
Two psychologists get asked the same question by every parent in a high-conflict case, and one of them answers it inside the first few minutes. The s…
2 years, 6 months ago
Julie Clark: Con Artists, Mirroring, and the Red Flags We Miss
Season 2024 Episode 105
Lisa picked up a novel, put it down partway through, and thought: this is my life, and it is our clients' lives. Then she emailed the author. That is…
2 years, 6 months ago