Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act

• Minnesota's UDPCVA

This legislation addresses parenting complications faced by divorced and separated service members when they deploy.

Today is Mothers' Day

• Tell Her You Are Grateful
For families who are struggling with custody issues, Mothers' Day (and Fathers' Day) can bring up conflicted feelings. Today focus on this: that mother helped you bring your beloved child into the world. That child carries half of that mother within every cell of their being. For that you are very grateful.

Young Children & Divorce

• Little Children Big Challenges
Sesame Street provides tools to help young children through divorce.

Two-Parent Households

• Of Whatever Flavor

Two-parent households (of whatever flavor) are likely to be better off financially, more attentive to the upbringing of children and more secure.

Hostile Email

• Responding to Hostile Email
Make your divorce hate-mail free.

Collaborative Law

• Contemplating Legal Action?
Consider a child-centered collaborative law approach to divorce.

Fewer Two-Parent Families

•The Rise of New Families
Decades of demographic, economic and social change have transformed the structure and composition of the American family.

More Than Two Legal Parents

• Bill moving through the California Legislature
Legislation would allow judges to recognize more than two legal parents for a given child, opening the door for legal recognition of alternative family configurations.

Legislating Custody

• Gov. Dayton Vetoes HF322 Bill
Resoundingly opposed by the MN Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the AFCC-MN, read why here. The 'who' behind this vetoed bill is outlined here.

Children & Divorce

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry's Recommendations 
With care and attention children can be helped to deal constructively with the resolution of parental conflict.

Social Early Neutral Evaluation

• SENE
If you're just embarking on divorce, consider doing it the best way: without litigation and without harm to your children.