Family Reunion

NPO Celebrates the Passing of West Virginia’s Shared Parenting Law

By EIN News, 03/31/2022 “…National Parents Organization (NPO), a nonprofit committed to transforming the norms of shared parenting nationwide, applauds West Virginia lawmakers for their bipartisan work in creating, passing, and supporting the state’s first law supporting shared parenting…” Read the entire article: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/567120184/npo-celebrates-the-passing-of-west-virginia-s-shared-parenting-law

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Parents’ bill of rights in Kansas should include equal access to children for shared custody

By CJ Online, 03/31/2022 “…However, it seems SB 496 has missed a major opportunity to include what should be the most basic and fundamental right of any parental bill of rights: Good parents should be allowed equal access to their children…” Read the entire article: https://www.cjonline.com/story/opinion/2022/03/31/kansas-parents-bill-rights-should-include-equal-access-children/7209998001/

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What to know about co-parenting

By Medical News Today, 03/29/2022 “… When parents divorce or separate, it can be difficult for them to maintain a civil relationship for the sake of their children. However, healthy co-parenting, or shared parenting, provides children with a sense of stability. This stability is critical to their well-being…” Read the entire article: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/co-parenting

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Guiding Patients: Beating False Allegations of Abuse in Child Custody Cases

By Alan D. Blotcky, PhD – Psychiatric Times, 03/29/2022 “…False allegations of abuse are often made during contentious child custody cases. One parent believes that he or she will gain leverage in the case by lodging an allegation of abuse against the other parent. More often than not, the allegation of abuse is a tactic

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Parental Alienation: The Psychology of Fractured Parent–Child Relationships

By The Good Men Project, 03/28/2022 “… In mild alienation, a child may share a parent’s litany of complaints about the other parent but warms to that parent when they are together. In severe parental alienation, the child may refuse contact, express raw hatred of a formerly loved parent, and believe the parent is worthless…”

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Disabled parents say their differences are being used against them in Ohio family courts

By Anna Staver – The Columbus Dispatch, 03/28/2022 “…That’s why Ayers and others are advocating for Senate Bill 202. A bipartisan piece of legislation to prohibit courts and child placing entities from “using a person’s disability as a reason to deny or limit that person’s care for a minor.””We need a law like this because

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How a new bill in Kentucky erases the child support reforms that passed in 2021: Opinion

By Matt Hancock – Courier-Journal, 03/25/2022 “… Last year, Kentucky passed a much-needed child support reform bill making it was just one of four states earning an A- or higher grade from the National Parents Organization.  The new law removed a 1.5 multiplier, which is often called the “Shared Parenting Penalty Multiplier,” that randomly inflated

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Competing bills prioritizing joint child custody both pass House committee

By Jacob Holmes – AL Reporter, 03/17/2022 “…Two dueling bills emphasizing joint custody both passed a House committee on Wednesday after adjustments to each made some compromise…” Read the entire article: https://www.alreporter.com/2022/03/17/competing-bills-prioritizing-joint-child-custody-both-pass-house-committee/

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