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Nathalie Rosen

March 3, 2020 by Nathalie Rosen Leave a Comment

Why Splitting Up In Texas is Simple – Child Custody

Three overfilled elevators passed before them before they were able to board one, just barely squeezing their bodies in enough so the doors would close. Their attorney guided them off the elevator on the family law floor and ushered them past the chaos of the hallway.  There were adults, babies and children clustered everywhere and it seemed an impossibility that anyone court could process this many people in a single day.

The court in question was the Bexar County courthouse in San Antonio. The couple in question was Peter and his wife Ashley who had just flown in from Los Angeles the previous day to seek joint custody of Jessica, a toddler whom Peter had fathered with an ex-girlfriend in San Antonio three years prior.

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February 5, 2020 by Nathalie Rosen Leave a Comment

Co-Parenting Frustrating Questions

A question that may make one pause when discussing a blended family after divorce is, “How many kids do you have?” This is one of the most common questions that I am asked and it’s consistently problematic for me. Sometimes I keep it vague and simply say that my husband and I have three kids together. However, people typically expand upon this by asking their ages, and the 10 year age gap between my eldest and middle child generally raises eyebrows until I explain that the eldest is my stepdaughter, my husband’s daughter from his first marriage. The interviewer generally responds awkwardly to all this and, for whatever reason, I feel like I deceived them somewhere along the way.

To avoid this routine, I usually tell the asker that I have a 9-year-old and a 6-year-old and a 19-year-old stepdaughter, but it pains me to differentiate among my kids that way. You see, my stepdaughter Amanda has been in my life since she was three-years-old and I truly consider her as much my child as her siblings. Yet, and this is the conflicting part, she’s not 100% mine and I respect her mother too much to claim her as my own.

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