My general advice is against battling over custody if at all possible. Why? It’s bad for you, it’s bad for the kids, and you’ll have much less money when it’s over. Oh, and it may not be over until your kids are adults. That said, there are times when you have to fight for custody. Make no mistake: a custody battle is the most hurtful and brutal court proceeding there is. It is expensive, emotionally exhausting and bruising. Your kids will know this. If you go down this road,

Recently, I took a telephone call from a advertising sales person from a local business. After the sales pitch, she said, “you know, there’s something else I want to tell you.” She told me the story of her own struggle with the Vermont Family Court system some ten years earlier, and how a fight over the custody of a child took two years and all of the family’s savings. After a trip to the Vermont Supreme Court, the parenting plan still didn’t work well for anyone involved – m

I recently helped some friends get the easiest divorce possible in the state of Vermont. Really! There is no way to get a quicker, cleaner, less frustrating, cheaper divorce in this state than what I’m about to show you. This couple was young, and neither of them was really angry at the other – it’s just that their relationship had fizzled and they wanted to move on. Each of them wanted to take the retirement, bank, and credit cards accounts in his or her name and let the oth