Author: Dr. Thomas Maples
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Child Custody: Who’s Choice is it Anyways? — Family Advocacy Center, INC.
As the dust settles from the arguments that lead to your separation, and you have filed the volumes of financial data your attorney has requested of you, and have neared a mutual decision about the appropriate division of your assets and liabilities, there is one last question to settle. Who gets custody of the most precious……
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The Naked Truth about Child Custody Conflict: 2 CYA (Cover Your Assets) or Heal Within
Child Custody – The Naked Truth. Fight for your children’s needs, not your own.
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2 Divorce Now in California: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Asset Division
What rights do you have to your earnings during a divorce proceeding. California is a Community Property State Divorce in California can be a complicated affair. The law considers property acquired during marriage as community property. This means both spouses have equal ownership rights to assets and earnings acquired during the marriage, regardless of who earned…
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When Love Fails: How 2 Reignite the Flame in Your Relationship
Do you remember when your relationship started to go bad? Dr. Tom Explores ways to reignite the flame of your loving relationships.
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Conflict Resolution: 3 Steps to a Positive Child-Centered Outcome
What messages do you send to your children in the throws of a family conflict? Dr. Tom explores a Child Centered Approach to Conflict Resolution.
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Happiness: Cultivate Wellbeing in the New Year!
Good and bad, right and wrong, holy and evil, for richer or poorer, or in sickness and health, life presents us with a series of opposing, yet integrated themes that seem to drive our maturation journey.
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Happiness: 2 Create Inner Peace in the Dark Meadow
From the VLOG Finding Happiness: Wandering the Meadow of Perception Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the Flower in it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perceptions of Happiness In what often seems a fool-hearted journey to find the balance between work and play, responsibility and fun, family and personal interests, and harmony within, we often…
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Finding Balance 2 Cultivate Happiness
Life, The Key to Happiness Finding balance is a lifelong journey. John Lennon, I believe, sums this up when he explored the concept of happiness. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to…
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Divorce and Children: Psychological Reactions & Solutions 4 a Family Divided
Words of Wisdom The Psychology of Divorce As a family therapist, I oftentimes see children who have been labeled by their schools, parents, or other professional parties involved in their life with behavioral disturbances. What is not seen, or is oftentimes overlooked by these parties is the effects family stress has on the development…
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Out with the Old: Resolutions 4 a Happy New Year
New Years is fast approaching. Out with the Old, In with the New explores the tradition of making New Years Resolutions as a means for individuated growth.
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Self Realization: Positive Psychology 4 Inner Potential
All Journey’s Begin with a First Step. What do you need to take that first step to Advance Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams?