The Transitions Legal Blog
Consider This Before Choosing to Divorce
So many people believe their partner should complete them. Thank popular culture and rom-coms for that notion!! But it couldn’t be further from the truth. A person must be whole on their own before they link up with a partner if they want their relationship to last....
Navigating Back-to-School When You’re Divorced
There are events in a child’s life that are important, and it doesn’t matter whose day it is. Like the first day of school. So long as there isn’t a court order prohibiting it, both parents can and should be there to support their child, regardless of Parenting Time...
Divorce Strategies
Divorce strategies, or how we approach divorce, develop from listening to the client, understanding their needs and desires, and looking at the law. Once we know the needs of the family, we can decide in which direction to move. When it comes to divorce strategy, at...
Let It (Parenting Time in Summer) Flow
We are in the height of summer, and I hope my clients are feeling good and being flexible with their Parenting Time arrangements. I’m not saying divorced parents should throw out the parameters they established for co-parenting. I’m saying that when kids are out of...
Focusing on Dads in Divorce Court
By Alisa Peskin-Shepherd For the longest time, mothers got custody automatically. But now, in an effort to correct a perceived injustice against men, courts and law firms alike are focusing on dads, circulating legislation to establish mandatory equal parenting time...
Marriage for All, Divorce for All
By Alisa Peskin-Shepherd Since same-sex marriage first became legal in Massachusetts in 2004, I’ve been watching to see if marriage trends and divorce trends mirror what we see in the heterosexual world. Because just as anyone can fall in love, anyone can fall out of...