2018 Family Law Review

On January 14, 2019, Ken Harvey Esq., and David Yamamoto Esq. of A Better Divorce, a group of Collaborative Professionals, presented on the topic of “2018 Family Law Review” for the White Zuckerman et. al. family law study group.

Better Parenting Better Divorce

Presenters: Vi Ballard, LMFT, Paula March, LCSW, Judy Colich, LMFT Topic: A Parenting class for those going through a high conflict divorce and want to protect their children from the conflict. Date -Time: Next class beings on Tuesday March 13, 2018 Description: Learn skills to protect your children from emotional harm. Learn skills to resolve disputes. Learn how to control your anger. Contact: Vi Ballard @ 310-373-7994

How Parents Can Help Kids Deal with Divorce

David Kuroda MSW ’72 has spent his career advocating for children—and healthy divorces. OVER HIS DECADES-LONG career as a social worker, counselor and mediator, David Kuroda MSW ’72 has helped some 8,000 families navigate the stress of separation and divorce. He has seen firsthand that dividing a family is never easy, but it doesn’t have to come at the cost of a child’s well-being. “It’s not the divorce that hurts children,” he says. “It’s the way parents get divorced, and the amount of conflict between them, that harms children.” Read More

Family Law Symposium

Improving the Mental Health of Children in Divorce Written by Alison Spirito & Joe Spirito The article can be viewed here in pdf format. This article was published in the 2017 Family Law Symposium.

Improving The Mental Health of Children in Divorce

Improving The Mental Health of Children in Divorce By Alison Spirito and Joseph P. Spirito, Jr. High-conflict behavior during divorce may have a more significant effect on children than divorce itself.[1] Children who witness their parents’ high-conflict divorces suffer from preventable mental and emotional health problems at significantly higher rates than children from intact families or even divorced families where the parents exhibit low or no conflict.[2] While litigation often normalizes high conflict, Collaborative Law and mediation consistently succeed in severing it from the divorce process by promoting consensual dispute resolution and drawing on the unique skills of child specialists […]