Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In divorced families, whose needs count for more: those of parents or those of children? When parents divorce, their child custody plans are supposed to place the “best interests of the child” first.

This article provides an overview of the Philadelphia Family Court custody mediation process and addresses questions raised ...

About two years ago, a young stay-at-home mother lost custody of her 4-year-old daughter, due to substance abuse and mental health issues. The pain of that separation pushed her to reshape her life, ...

The dispute began when the parents continuously violated a custody order allocating the mother with partial custody in Virginia and the father primary physical custody in Philadelphia. A heated ...

Flexible custody of a child: How to parent well through a divorce A long-divorced friend of mine is struggling with her daughter. The girl is 12, and no longer wants to abide by her parents' carefully ...