Thanksgiving Anxiety? Don’t Let Divorce Ruin Your Thanksgiving Day!

By Guest Contributor Donna F. Ferber, LPC, LADC   |   November 17th, 2012

Tips On How To Make Thanksgiving Day Work For You After Divorce

Thanksgiving marks the official beginning of the holiday season. Although usually less fraught with anxiety than Christmas, if it is the first “big holiday” since your estrangement from your spouse, you may be dreading the day. It also may be your first holiday without your children.

Going through a divorce can give you the perfect “excuse” to break with tradition and forget your own way of celebrating. Spending the holiday at home by yourself watching videos and eating Chinese take-out (yes, they are open on Thanksgiving) may be just what you need to do!

Or, here is what Evelyn did; she prepared a complete Thanksgiving dinner for herself of her favorite foods. She set the table with linen and candles and put on music she liked. Then she enjoyed the day celebrating by herself.

Divorce gives you the opportunity to listen to what you want and what works for you.… View Full Article → “Thanksgiving Anxiety? Don’t Let Divorce Ruin Your Thanksgiving Day!”

Children Services In Dayton, Ohio: Haines Children’s Center

By Anne Shale   |   November 10th, 2012

Learning More About the Children Services Division
of the Department of Job And Family Services of Montgomery County, Ohio

On Thursday, October 18, 2012, I had the opportunity to visit the Haines Children’s Center located at 3304 North Main Street, Dayton, Ohio, to meet with Ann Stevens, Public Information Coordinator of the Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services, and Geraldine Pegues, Assistant Director of the Children Services Division. My mission was to learn more about the agency and the services it provides to the community so that I could complete a Family Blog Article for publication on the Ohio Family Law Blog.

The Haines Children’s Center, completed in 2001 and named in honor and memory of now-deceased Sheriff Gary Haines, is located on the grounds of the former Shawen Acres, the site of ten (10) cottages which was one of the first children’s homes in Ohio. The cottages, built in 1926/1927, are now being razed with plans to have some green space and park services available for the North Main Street Community.… View Full Article → “Children Services In Dayton, Ohio: Haines Children’s Center”

Divorce And Household Chores, Does It Also Divide The Family?

By Robert "Chip" Mues   |   November 3rd, 2012

A New Divorce Study Suggests that It Does!

I confess that I am a bit of a junkie of surveys and studies. So I am always on the lookout for interesting ones that relate to family and/or divorce issues. Recently, I came across this Norwegian study that found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally with their husband was around 50 percent higher than among those where the wives did most of the housework.  I showed write-ups about it to my wife of 34 years, and she immediately scowled and dismissively said something like, “Yeah right.”  So at the risk of alienating my wife and also being politically incorrect, I decided to share the findings here.

In what many may conclude is a slap in the face of gender equality, the report found the divorce rate among couples who shared housework equally, was around 50 percent higher than among those where the woman did most of the housework.… View Full Article → “Divorce And Household Chores, Does It Also Divide The Family?”

Divorce: How To Choose And Manage Your Battles

By Guest Contributor Donna F. Ferber, LPC, LADC   |   October 27th, 2012

10 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Taking Divorce Legal Action

The dissolution of their marriage offers the opportunity for each partner to stand up for themselves in a way they had not before. Bravo! Finding your voice and learning assertiveness skills can create better relationships with others while assisting you in getting what you need.

Sometimes though, in our desire to not let ourselves be hurt or abused again, we may become inflexible and unwilling to give in on anything. If we become rigid, we cross the line into aggressive behavior. This new contentious behavior can backfire. In the realm of divorce, it can create additional problems such as higher legal bills, increased acrimony with our ex, tension with our kids and conflict in our daily lives.

Rolling over and acquiescing to everyone and everything isn’t the answer either. We must learn to choose our battles; it’s old advice, but good advice.… View Full Article → “Divorce: How To Choose And Manage Your Battles”

Divorce Linked to Stroke in Men

By Robert "Chip" Mues   |   October 20th, 2012

Study Shows Higher Risk Of Stroke For Men Of Parental Divorce

It often is said that children are the most affected by divorce. Now a Toronto study has found that men with divorced parents are significantly more likely to suffer a stroke than men from intact families, according to a recent study from the University of Toronto. The study, published in the International Journal of Stroke, shows that adult men who had experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 are three times more likely to suffer a stroke than men whose parents did not divorce. Women from divorced families did not have a higher risk of stroke than women from intact families.

The Toronto Star reports the University of Toronto researchers examined data from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (CDC) from a health risk survey involving 4,074 males and 5,886 females.  According to Esme Fuller-Thomson, Chair at University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Department of Family and Community Medicine and lead author of the study, “the strong association we found for males between parental divorce and stroke is extremely concerning.”… View Full Article → “Divorce Linked to Stroke in Men”

Injury Claim: Please Do Not Wait “Til The Midnight Hour”

By Mark Segreti   |   October 13th, 2012

Consult An Attorney Early To Avoid Losing Out On An Injury Claim!

I am borrowing from the classic Wilson Pickett hit song in the 1960’s to emphasize the importance of discussing an injury or a loss with an attorney as soon as practicable. The lyrics are:

“I’m gonna wait ‘til the midnight hour’
That’s when my love comes tumbling down
I’m gonna wait ‘til the midnight hour’
When there’s no one else around”

So often a person has a potential claim whether it is for a personal injury claim, property damage, breach of a contract or lease, discrimination or adverse action during employment, or otherwise, but by the time an attorney is informed and reviews the facts it is too late to proceed with a court case. It is a mistake to wait until “the midnight hour” because it is often unclear when the deadline is for particular claims to be brought to court.… View Full Article → “Injury Claim: Please Do Not Wait “Til The Midnight Hour””

Child Custody Dispute to be Decided By the U.S. Supreme Court

By Anne Shale   |   October 6th, 2012

Active Military Members Fight For International Child Custody In The United States Courts

Jeffrey Lee Chafin v. Lynne Hales Chafin

Docket 11-1347

Facts of the Case:

  1. Jeffrey Lee Chafin, a citizen of the United States and an active duty member of the United States Army, is the biological Father of Eris Chafin, now five (5) years of age.
  2. Lynne Hales Chafin is a citizen of Scotland and the biological Mother of Eris Chafin.
  3. The parties met in 2005 while Father was stationed in Germany and married in March 2006 in the country of Scotland.  Eris Chafin was born in 2007 while Father was still stationed in Germany.  Eris is considered to have dual citizenship as a citizen of the United States and as a citizen of Scotland.
  4. Sgt. Chafin was deployed to Afghanistan for fifteen (15) months in 2007 and 2008.  During that period of time, Mother and the minor child lived in her native country, Scotland.  
… View Full Article → “Child Custody Dispute to be Decided By the U.S. Supreme Court”
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