by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 30, 2017 | Family Law
When parents engage in custody battles over their children, they do so under the guise that it is in their children’s best interest, but is that generally true? Please don’t misunderstand, I am not suggesting that parents don’t sincerely believe that what they want is...
by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 30, 2017 | Family Law, Mediation
People often complain that they don’t know how to properly vet attorneys. One very effective way is assessing their views on mediation, when they use it, and the mediators they tend to use. I say this because empirical findings exist regarding “the effects of mediator...
by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 30, 2017 | Divorce, Family Law
“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty Every single thing we say and do are actions which we have chosen to make. What we...
by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 30, 2017 | Family Law, Featured
In 2008, Dan Ariely published his New York Times bestseller book titled Predictably Irrational, in which he clearly shows that people’s decision-making tends to be as the title of the book describes. Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral...
by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 29, 2017 | Divorce, Family Law
It’s estimated that as many as 90 percent of all conflicts result from misunderstandings. Irrespective on the actual percentage, a great deal of conflict does stem from misunderstandings. As such, I’m going to assume that communication issues contributed in good part...
by Family Dynamics Assistance Center | Nov 28, 2017 | Family Law
Having been a child of two sets of parents whose divorce was extremely contentious and heavily litigated and after working with families in conflict, I’m fed up with people playing the “blame game.” It’s almost always the other person’s fault. If only the other person...
