Divorce Communication Website: All About the Children

Even if you haven't been through a divorce, you know someone who has. Or you know someone who has a child with someone that they are separated from or have never been married to. Thus, odds are you know just how difficult joint parenting can be. Not only do you have to communicate with someone who you have chosen to no longer live with...you have to do it effectively so as to best benefit your children. Your relationship as parents is ongoing...and until your children are all emancipated, you will have to deal with issues such as visitation, altering visitation, school schedules, extracurricular activity schedules, holidays, not to mention everyone's favorite: money issues.

All About the Children is a new tool that can help parents....well, co-parent. If both parents sign up and have accounts, both parents can then view their child's schedule via the calendar, communicate with the other parent about other issues such as visitation via the mail room, and even manage finances via money matters. Money matters will even handle direct deposits from one parent's account into the other parent's account for miscellaneous expenses and even child support. Parents are emailed each time something happens on his or her account. All transactions are date-stamped when they are sent and when they are received and cannot be altered.

As an attorney dealing with parents attempting to find the best way to work together, or any way to work together after their relationship has ended, this website seems like an invaluable tool. And as a Guardian ad Litem, I have been appointed by the Court to investigate what I believe to be in the best interests of a child or children...and oftentimes have been faced with parents who argue that they cannot contact the other parent because his or her voicemail box is full...or they do not return voicemails...or that they refuse to communicate via any method other than text...or that they send constant emails expecting an immediate response...the list goes on. This website attempts to address those communication issues and presents a central hub where parents can go to address the many issues involving their children's lives.

Check it out -- and let us know what you think: http://www.allaboutthechildren.us/.