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Chris and Lisa: Why Not to Stay Together 'for the Kids'
Season 2024 Episode 104
"I'll stay until the kids are grown." Chris and Lisa both believed a version of that once, and both now spend their days with people wrestling with t…
2 years, 6 months ago
Sara Mathews Dixon: Teen Therapy in a High-Conflict Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 103
Finding a therapist for your child is one problem. Knowing what to ask before you hand your kid over is a different problem, and almost nobody hands …
2 years, 6 months ago
Vanessa Dimitropoulos: Reactive Abuse, a Staged Arrest, and Fighting Back
Season 2024 Episode 102
Vanessa Dimitropoulos spent eleven years as a working actress, with roles in The Walking Dead and The Big Short. Then a relationship with a man study…
2 years, 6 months ago
Greg Glassock: Hidden Cameras, GPS Trackers, and Phone Security
Season 2024 Episode 101
One of our clients noticed that her smoke alarm was wired rather than running on a battery, and could not get anyone to tell her whether that was nor…
2 years, 6 months ago
Morneau & Valentine: How a Child's Voice Reaches the Judge
Season 2024 Episode 100
Ontario appoints and pays for a child to have their own lawyer in a custody case, through an office set up for exactly that. Lisa points out that the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Trevor Crow: What Real Family Court Reform Would Take
Season 2024 Episode 99
Lisa asked her audience one question the morning of this interview: if you could write a law, what would it be? The answers that came back are the sp…
2 years, 7 months ago
Rebecca Zung: Negotiating a High-Conflict Divorce
Season 2024 Episode 98
By lunchtime on the day of your trial, you may still be on your first witness. That is the reality Rebecca Zung wants people to understand before the…
2 years, 7 months ago
Nicolle Kopping-Pavars: The Child's Voice in High-Conflict Custody
Season 2024 Episode 97
A six-year-old, Nicolle Kopping-Pavars says, often understood the divorce better than the adults living it. She spent years as the lawyer for the chi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dr. George Simon: Character Disturbance and How to Spot a Manipulator
Season 2024 Episode 96
Some of the most damaging people you'll meet make a wonderful first impression, and that's exactly the problem. In this episode, Dr. George Simon, re…
2 years, 7 months ago
Sean Valentine: The Landmark Ruling That Lets Survivors Sue for Family Violence
Season 2024 Episode 95
For years, survivors of coercive control heard that what happened to them was real but had no legal category. A landmark Ontario ruling started to ch…
2 years, 7 months ago