Court does not discover your story for you. If you don’t clearly and deliberately present what is happening in your child’s life, the court will default to fragments: partial records, third‑party impressions, and assumptions made under time pressure. Judges are not investigators. They rule on what is placed in front of them. That is why only parents can build their narrative for court and why failing to do so leaves critical context invisible. Your attorney won’t do it for yo

How to recognize the patterns, and what to do next. There’s a quiet kind of loneliness that lives inside a coercive marriage. It’s the feeling of walking on eggshells in your own home. The way your chest tightens when you hear their car pull into the driveway. The voice in your head whispering, “Don’t make it worse… just get through the night.” You tell yourself things aren’t “that bad." You tell yourself every marriage has problems. You tell yourself you’re strong enough to

When co-parenting involves coercive control, children can experience emotional, psychological, and even physical harm. Courts have a long way to go in recognizing that patterns of manipulation, neglect, and control indicate parental unfitness. Since most court professionals aren’t trained in psychology or coercive control, here are behaviors to look out for when it comes to documenting your case or showing how your coparent may be unfit.  Here are 12 Signs of an Unfit Coparen

Emotional manipulation by a co-parent can be harmful to children and can create a toxic environment. Here are some signs that a co-parent...