North Texas Giving Day
Announcing the Inaugural Class of Credentialed and Master Credentialed Professionals
Collaborative Divorce Texas announces its inaugural class of Master Credentialed and Credentialed Collaborative Professionals. Achievement of this designation demonstrates a commitment to the highest standards of collaborative practice. The following Master Credentialed Collaborative Professionals have satisfied rigorous standards of education and training, passed a confidential peer reference process, demonstrated significant collaborative case experience exceeding that required for … [Read more...]
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Protecting Privacy and Preserving Relationships
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What will your kids say (bw)
10 Co-Parenting Resolutions for the New Year
This article is from Syd Sharples, an Austin-based mental health professional who specializes in psychotherapy and collaborative facilitation, and past president for the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. I just spent the holidays with my daughter and her father. I think I would probably have preferred a month-long defensive driving class to the holidays with my ex when I first divorced him many years ago, , but from where I sit now, it was a warm and highly enjoyable family occasion. … [Read more...]
Your Legacy is at Stake
Much is changing before your eyes. Collaborative Professionals will help you make the best of your legacy. … [Read more...]
Christmas, Then New Year’s, Then Divorce?
If you pay any attention at all to news stories around divorce, you’re aware that the holiday season usually brings at least one article about how unhappy couples, determined to stay together through the end of the year, make plans to divorce once the New Year arrives. The expense and stress of the holidays prove to be the last straw for couples who have already been contemplating divorce. An article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from earlier this month had an interesting finding: While it … [Read more...]
A Case Against Holiday Time-Sharing for Divorced Parents
A standard parenting scheduling in Texas splits up the three major holidays of the holiday season: it gives one parent Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day with the children on even years and Christmas on odd years, and the other parent gets the reverse schedule. For the parent getting the children during Christmas, it’s actually a fairly long stretch that goes from the Friday the children are let out for winter break from school until noon on the 28th, with the other parent getting them until they … [Read more...]
