Mediate Michigan

If you listened carefully over the last weekend of winter break, you would have heard the collective sighs of custodial parents in airports across the country, as their children deplane from holiday visits with out-of-state parents. Regardless of how airtight our custody agreements may appear, angst during visitations weighs upon us like another plate of holiday cookies.

As anxiety turns to relief when each child appears in the jetway, good cheer descends to melancholy in the holiday home. The non-custodial parent, once bright as a child’s smile on Christmas morning, returns to the vacant stare of longing. I can’t imagine many parents who don’t contemplate some variable that will transform a seasonal visit into permanent residency as they deliver their child to the departure terminal.

via Crai S. Bower: Custodial Disputes – When State Rights Support Stated Wrongs.