Our Covid lifestyle and toilet paper hoarding ways started back in March, but the holidays are literally right around the corner and we’re still fat. We get that it’s hard to make rock-solid plans when you’re worried about the ‘rona, but seasonal events and family gatherings require the “3 Cs of Co-parenting”: communication, coordination, and collaboration. Hashing out the details of family gatherings, gift exchanges, and other special celebrations is crucial if you want your children to have healthy and healthy holiday experiences. Don’t stress about trying to keep things “relatively normal”—normal went out the window a long time ago! The holidays are going to look a lot different for everyone this year, and that’s okay. As long as you keep your priorities straight, your kids can make new memories, experience different traditions, and enjoy all the holiday festivities the end of the year has to offer despite (and sometimes because of) your divorce. Here are nine tips to help you successfully co-parent your way through Thanksgiving and beyond.

Why can’t an attorney represent both parties in a separation/divorce and meet with both parties if the parties are amicable? Short answer: it’s unethical, you heathen it’s highly frowned upon.

Family law attorneys want to help our clients, but if we’re totally honest, it can sometimes feel like herding a large group of cats during a hail storm while being attacked by rabid geese who just happen to be guarding their nests. Too far? You get the idea. The point is, family lawyers are professionals who specialize in matters of family law; they do not exist to manage your time for you, respond to midnight text messages, or provide/organize therapeutic services. Would you like your divorce process to go as smoothly as possible? Here are12 tips that will save both you and your attorney a lot of time and frustration.

Co-parenting is never easy, but co-parenting during a pandemic is next level hard. Do you send your kids to school on Plan B or sign them up for virtual-only? Who will stay at home with the kids while they learn from home? What if your co-parent wants to forgo public schooling all together? Honestly, co-parenting in 2020 is a veritable landmine of arguments just waiting to happen and there are no easy answers. Just like you, family law attorneys are having to figure it out as they go along. Worldwide pandemics aside, co-parenting can be a full bag of crazy on the best of days. Here are some tips that can (hopefully) make the process a lot less complicated.

While there might not be a law that prohibits dating during a divorce, is it really a wise thing to do? You might feel as free as a (quarantined) bird and ready to maintain a 6-foot distance with a new love interest, but according to the law, a person is married until the divorce is finalized (whomp, whomp). North Carolina requires a one year separation before a couple can file for divorce, so even if you feel single and ready to mingle, it’s important to approach any budding relationship with a large degree of caution.

Have you ever driven somewhere and then wondered how you got there? Did you yield to oncoming traffic? Did you use your turn signal? WERE THOSE LIGHTS EVEN GREEN?!