By Danielle Braff   You’re moving in with your sister. Or maybe your family is going to move in with your parents for a bit. It’s going to be a full house, and that can be a super scary proposition. It’s a common one, however.   In 2014, extended families represented 17 percent of all […]

By Laura Lifshitz   I’d love a real tropical vacation, complete with hot cabana boy and a lot of girly mixed drinks, but unfortunately, it’s not in my budget. I’m sure many of you can relate: you’re jonesing for a vacay, but your budget screams “Don’t even splurge on that mani-pedi for a few weeks.” […]

By Stacey Freeman   Let’s set the scene. It’s Saturday morning, and you’ve been up for hours. You’re trembling because you drank two large cups of coffee in anticipation of making a three-hour schlep to your child’s camp in Nowhere, USA, possibly by yourself. Around you will be giddy parents, mostly married ones, chatting with […]

By Dr. Elizabeth Degi DuBois, PhD & Christy A. Zlatkus, Esquire   Most parenting plans, custody orders and final Judgments of Absolute Divorce outline specific guidelines for how summer vacations will go down. But as any parent (or divorce attorney!) knows, when it comes to kids, very few things go perfectly to plan. Add a […]

By Dr. Kristin Davin   Divorce is by far one of the most stressful and unsettling events that occurs in a person’s life and brings up a mixture of emotions, from sadness to anger. You are ending a marriage that you thought would last forever. So, it is very natural (read: normal) to become emotional […]