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Blog 2020 December 5 Tips on Keeping Your Children 1st While Going Through a Divorce
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5 Tips on Keeping Your Children 1st While Going Through a Divorce

Posted By Lois M. Brenner, Esq. || 30-Dec-2020

With the New Year almost upon us, many couples are setting goals for 2021 in the pursuit of happiness for themselves and their family. For some couples, the attainment of these objectives involves the dissolution of their marriage.

However, with an eye on a brighter future and the fair distribution of marital assets, the future of the most precious and valuable marital “asset” is often treated the most poorly: the children.

As a psychologically trained divorce mediator and divorce attorney for more than 35 years, I have found that minor children are the subject of serious contention and are often used as pawns in the marital conflict, which always negatively affects the child’s well-being and emotional maturation process.

I am working with two couples right now in the mediation process who have forgotten it’s crucial to navigate divorce not only in their best interest but also in the best interest of their children.

Here are five tips for parents to consider in regard to the treatment of their minor children when going through a divorce.

  1. Consult a therapist or trained mediator to discuss the best, most age-appropriate way to break the news of divorce to your children. This therapist should be an objective, non-partisan third party concerned only with the emotional well-being of his or her clients’ children.
  1. Inform your children together as a united front so they know each parent has an equal part in the dissolution of the marriage (details are not necessary) and know that it’s okay for both parents to be loved and respected. This also assists in letting the children know that it’s about you and not about them.
  1. Be respectful when speaking about your former spouse to your children. This keeps your children out of the line of fire and on the sidelines with much of their childhood intact.
  1. Protect your children, maintaining your parental role. The children should not be spoken to like a coworker, friend, or your local bartender when it comes to talking about your divorce. They don’t need to know who’s getting to keep the toaster or the intricacies of the dissatisfying sex life you had with your former spouse.
  1. Ask yourself, “Am I acting out of hurt or am I acting in the best interests of my children?” Does the custody and control you seek reflect your need to show your former spouse who’s boss or is it truly in the best interests of your children? Long, drawn-out custody battles can be emotionally debilitating for you and the children and can cause the waste of hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be going toward your child’s college fund.

Children do not deserve to become pieces of ammunition during a divorce. By allowing them to be impartial observers, you’re giving them the chance at not only a childhood, but a well-adjusted adulthood.

If you find yourself thinking about divorce or you have any questions about the many variables of the treatment of minor children while going through a divorce, please feel free to call me at 212.734.1551, and I’ll be happy to advise you on how to keep your children first!!

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Warm regards,

Lois

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