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Mia Poppe: A Family Lawyer's 3-Year Custody Battle, and the Turn
Season 2023 Episode 64
Mia Poppe spent almost three years losing. Every major request in her own custody case went the other way, in front of the same judge, and she is a m…
3 years, 1 month ago
Elizabeth Shaw: Why You Can't Reason With a Manipulative Ex
Season 2023 Episode 63
Somebody hands over proof, a screenshot, a receipt, a witness, expecting it to settle an argument once and for all. Coach Elizabeth Shaw says that's …
3 years, 1 month ago
Ruth Chung: Keeping Your Eye on the Prize Through a Divorce
Season 2023 Episode 62
When you are in the middle of a divorce, it can feel like it will define the rest of your life. Ruth Chung, who sees these cases every day, wants you…
3 years, 1 month ago
Ken Novenstern: Divorce 101, from Filing to Settlement
Season 2023 Episode 61
Almost nobody learns how divorce works until they are in one. This episode is the orientation nobody gets: what starts a case, what the process optio…
3 years, 1 month ago
Sara Mathews Dixon: Choosing the Right Therapist for Your Family
Season 2023 Episode 60
The therapist is not for you. It is for a twelve-year-old who has spent two years inside a custody fight, and the list you are working from is a dire…
3 years, 2 months ago
Kristen Darcy: Ritual, Gratitude, and Grounding Yourself in Court
Season 2023 Episode 59
Kristen Darcy handed her kids composition notebooks and started writing to them. No requirement to write back. Some of the entries are hard to read n…
3 years, 2 months ago
T.H. of ExExperts: The Myth of Cooperative Co-Parenting
Season 2023 Episode 58
Best friends for thirty years, leading parallel lives, married within the same stretch and raising kids side by side. Thirteen years in, both of them…
3 years, 2 months ago
Linda Alle-Murphy: Dissolving a Business With Your Spouse
Season 2023 Episode 57
Ending a marriage to someone you also own a company with means two breakups running at the same time, in two different courthouses, on two different …
3 years, 2 months ago
Rebecca Ishida: When Friends Take Your Ex's Side
Season 2023 Episode 56
A woman tells one of her oldest friends that her marriage is over. The first thing out of the friend's mouth is that she cannot believe she will neve…
3 years, 2 months ago
Amber Chapman: Don't Give Up on Your Kids in High-Conflict Custody
Season 2023 Episode 55
Amber Chapman's oldest daughter started gorging herself at dinner, and Amber could not work out why, until she learned the girl was stocking up becau…
3 years, 3 months ago