A year ago this week I – in a spectacular flailing demonstration more worthy of Clark Griswold than Nancy Kerrigan – broke my ankle “ice skating” during Winterfest at Bushnell Park. Note: As...
Updated December 9, 2023 When parents split, the dynamics of the entire family change. There are two households, living arrangements adjust, and the children no longer have their parents with...
Connecticut gets (gives itself?) a bad rap for being provincial. Our clients indicate it is anything but. In just the last couple of weeks, Freed Marcroft has arranged for service...
Updated December 3, 2023 What should you know about collaborative divorce? Well, divorce is inevitably an emotionally challenging experience, but the collaborative approach removes that stereotypical adversarial aspect. Instead, collaboration fosters...
The holidays can create mixed feelings for many people, especially children still coming to terms with their parents’ divorce. For divorcing parents, the stress of the first “new normal” holidays...
On Thursday, November 17th at 5:30 PM, Freed Marcroft Attorneys Meghan Freed and Carla Zahner will host a complimentary webinar on stepparent adoption in Connecticut. The recent presidential election has highlighted the importance of adopting children of parents of...
Yesterday morning, following President-Elect Trump’s win, I met with a young married couple about a step-parent adoption. They were two women, and the meeting opened with tears. It was heartbreaking. Adoption...
Getting divorced is challenging enough, but if you and your spouse live in different countries, it’s hard to know where to begin and what to do afterwards. Where do you...
Subtitle: “Why Do We Hate Light?” I woke this morning to an iPhone that read “4:30 am,” and was mildly annoyed until I realized it was “really” 5:30 am and...
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian are so often in the public eye that their tribulations can be easy to discount as products of the celebrity lifestyle and unrelated to our...
