Author: Dr. Thomas Maples
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FOCUS: (Follow One Course Until Successful)

In this article, we explore FOCUS as an ability to create successful endeavors in one’s life.
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ADD, ADHD, or Lack of Boundaries?

The prevalence of ADD and its hyperactive counterpart ADHD is astounding. The Centers for Disease Control CDC estimate the morbidity of ADHD in this country to be: Percent of children 5-17 years of age ever diagnosed with ADHD: 10.2% (2012-2014). Percent of boys 5-17 years of age ever diagnosed with ADHD: 14.1% (2012-2014). Percent of…
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Divorce 101: Rebuilding Life after Divorce — Family Advocacy Center, INC.

Rebuilding Life after a divorce or break can be difficult. Maples Family Law has answers to the legal questions you have.
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When 2 Divorce & When to Save Your Marriage: Love, Hate, & Indifference

“Love and Marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage.” So played theme song from the hit television show “Married with Children” aired during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Like its introduction leads us to believe, love and marriage is a common pairing, like peanut butter is to jelly, or cereal is to…
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Divorce: It’s More than Just a Legal Process — Family Advocacy Center, INC.
Marriage, separation, and divorce are more than a series of legal issues. Chances are, if you have found this website, you have been through an emotional roller coaster, have thought long and hard regarding the possible consequences your decision to divorce will have on those you love, and have ultimately made a choice that you… via…
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Embrace Fatherhood’s Mythic Journey! 2 Unleash the Hero Within

The Modern-Day Mythic Father: Engaging the Mythopoetic Masculine in Service for Our Children explores contemporary issues that affect fathers, and their journey to develop the inner masculine.
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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.
