by Chrysandra S. Bowen | Nov 14, 2024 | When Your Adult Children Who Are Addicts Live with You
Ways that You Can (and Typically Won’t) Help Your Child It’s one of the worst nightmares a parent can imagine—your adult child becomes an addict and returns home to live with you. You want what’s best for your child and you want to help them into some type of...
by Chrysandra S. Bowen | Oct 24, 2024 | Moving in together
Strategies for Successfully Navigating Cohabitation So you’ve been in a relationship for a while and you’ve been talking about moving in together…read this first for some tips on how to maximize your chances of making it work. Any type of relationship involves work,...
by Chrysandra S. Bowen | Oct 17, 2024 | Prenuptial Agreement
How Do You Bring Up the Subject without Suggesting that You Have Trust Issues? Is there any good way to ask your fiancée for a prenuptial agreement? Conventional wisdom suggests that it could easily be taken as a sign that you don’t trust your fiancé, but that doesn’t...
by Chrysandra S. Bowen | Oct 10, 2024 | Gray Divorce
The Common Causes of Marital Breakups after the Kids Are Gone Though the overall divorce rate has declined a bit over the past 20 years, marital breakups involving people over the age of 50—so-called “gray divorce”—have seen a dramatic increase. What are the causes...
by Chrysandra S. Bowen | Sep 26, 2024 | Joint physical custody
What Are Your Chances of Getting Equal Time with Your Children after a Divorce? There’s been a trend over the past quarter of a century, with more and more courts willing to grant parents joint physical custody. It’s still clearly the exception rather than the rule,...
