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Real help for people involved in child custody -- initial determination of custody or change of custody -- or divorce. This listing of individuals, groups, companies, services, organizations and professionals can make a difference today. Just starting or starting over -- this is the place to begin.

Parenting at a Distance
Staying in touch with the children who live in your heart but not in your home.

"As a bipolar mother I will never have custody of my children. That is the hardest thing I had to accept. Parenting at a Distance helps me send them activities that will help them remember me with some happy memories. I am getting better and they are getting older. Some day there will be an opportunity for us to sit together. I will tell them how much joy I found in putting together their projects and I hope they will be able to tell me how much they enjoyed my efforts. Really a good book." Meghan Morris --Letter to the publisher

Parenting at a Distance, has been a great resource for me. At first the mother of my son didn't want to help me communicate with the kids. The fact that I had a plan for contact with them and was consistent won her over. I think she gets as much a kick out of the seeing what will be in the next package as the boys do. Ken Richards --Weekend Fathers Newsletter.

The Children's Rights Council is a national non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that works to assure children meaningful and continuing contact with both their parents and extended family regardless of the parents' marital status.  (507) 289-5745

How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up     

How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up is a book for young children about coping with regular visitation to separate parents, especially long-distance visitation. Written in very simple language arising from the point of view of a young boy who had a hard time adjusting to the stress of traveling back and forth to visit his mother. How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up offers more than just a mere advisory text - it has point-by-point observations, travel safety tips, and numerous fun activities to pass the travel time. Click here to see the Table of Contents. How To Go To Visitation Without Throwing Up is highly recommended reading, and a great resource for any parent having to take a child on a long-distance trip to visit friends and relations.  Available at Amazon.com. 

Over 800 triple-columned pages of vital information about fighting for custody of your children. This book is for parents facing a vicious or dangerous person on the other side. Topics include your child having an attorney of his or her own, who must listen to the child's wishes, admit-deny to pin down the lies once and for all, how to keep your job from losing your child custody case, home study, psychological evaluation, false accusations of child abuse, dealing with real child abuse, Parental Alienation Syndrome, how to turn hearsay into documented evidence, hiring a great attorney and grounds for suing a bad one, the difference between issues and non-issues, how to produce contact logs that will help rather than hurt your case and much more. In most cases the other parent does not win custody you lose custody. This book won't let that happen to you. Information about fathers' rights, mothers' rights, grandparent rights and attorneys. This manual has been on the market longer, and is updated more often, than any other available. Click here to see how parents, grandparents and professionals Praise this manual. For people going through a divorce or the never-married parent. This is not a cheap download. It is an expensive manual. It costs less than 1/2 hour with a good attorney and gives you hundreds and more topics than any other product.  Available at Amazon.com the biggest,  Google the fastest delivery, and PayPal the most popular. 

Onalaska, Texas 75845
Stone Wall offers a state-of-the-art recording studio owned by practicing attorney offers forensic audio and video services including -- transfer of micro-cassette (answering machine) to cassette tape and compact disk format transfer of cassette tape to compact disk format clean up and enhancement of recorded conversation, including removal of tape hiss, hums, background noises and transcription of conversations preparation of cassette tape and/or compact disk trial exhibits indexing relevant passages/portions of the recorded media video editing for mediation purposes video editing for trial purposes preparation of exhibits for mediation and trial.

Extensive civil and criminal trial and appellate experience, both alone and as part of legal teams and both as prosecution (plaintiff) and defense, in District Courts in Trinity, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker, Houston, Angelina and surrounding counties including cases ranging from capital murder to forcible entry and detainer, family law, collections, personal injury, products liability, medical malpractice and deed restrictions.

Numerous video and audio presentations for mediation and trial. References of judges, clients and other attorneys available upon request.
Stone Wall's Chief Recording Engineer brings over 16 years of recording studio experience in Los Angeles, Houston and Dallas in addition to working with Travis Kitchens in forensic audio the last three years. A detailed resume is available upon request. Reasonable rates and expedited service when necessary.  (936) 642-1818

450 N. Syndicate St., Suite 122, St. Paul, MN 55104
(651) 646-6177 (voice/TTY)     (651) 646-1527 (fax)

Mother's Rights - is a page dedicated to you, the Mothers, the Women, who care about the children.
There are hundreds of sites dedicated to Father's Rights Mother's Rights, Women's Rights.
All of the women.
Women living with their children
Women living apart from their children
Women struggling to keep their families in tact
Women fighting for custody of their children
Grandmothers fighting to protect their grand children
Second wives helping their husband's

All the children.
The children of your womb, the children of your heart.
The children you planned to have
The children that surprised you
The children you care for because they need you
The children you got when you married again
Don't be left getting tossed around in world with legal systems too busy and too powerful to care about women and children. They say the best way to judge the level of civilization of a society is to observe how they care for their children and women.
I don't see any societies I would call too civilized. Click here to go to the Great links I have found to be very helpful for women.

Twin Cities Family Law Attorneys
When parents separate, custody of the children is often one of their most important concerns. Parents may be anxious to ensure that they will stay actively involved in their children's lives and upbringing. They may also worry that child custody will become a "football" in a contentious divorce, a way to hurt one another rather than protect the best interests of the children. And parents worried about money may believe child custody will be a deciding factor in support and maintenance orders.

At the St. Paul law office of Krug & Zupke, we understand that this is an anxious time for parents. We have practiced law since 1984, so we have substantial experience handling child custody and other family law matters. We can represent clients in anything from an uncontested, relatively simple divorce to a complex, contentious case involving a trial. In all family law matters, we strive to really listen to our clients and take that knowledge to the court or the negotiating table, to meet our clients' most important parenting goals.

Has a new marriage suddenly thrown step-siblings into the already frenzied mix of your blended family? If so, you’re likely to have your hands full: Managing a bigger family, warding off negative emotions, and making sure all the kids get along. But fear not, help is just a click away in the form of clinical social worker Debra Burrell, who shares her expert tips with Debbie.

N.O.W. Is an organization of Men and women who support full equality for women in truly equal partnership with men. Check out our Action Alerts and please take action NOW. YOU can make a difference. We have listed a number of other links to feminist resources/sites on the Web that we find very useful. Looking forward to hearing from you and meeting you at one of our actions, events, or meetings. 

The Public Hearing Room includes testimony and speeches before public bodies. This material provides excellent examples of how NCFM is representing you. ...And, it demonstrates how you can get involved in the political process in a meaningful way by joining in with NCFM. Publications listed and summarized here are available through the U.S. mail. Topics include effects of language on male behavior, discrimination against men in criminal court and more.

Parents Without Partners

The problems are many in bringing up our children alone, contending with the emotional conflicts of divorce, never-married, separation or widowhood. PWP Inc. is the only international organization that provides real help in the way of discussions, professional speakers, study groups, publications and social activities for families and adults. Through the exchange of ideas and companionship, we hope to further our common welfare and the well-being of our children.

Essential to giving the testimony you need to give. Critical for the witnesses you are counting on. Important for all types of cases and essential for child custody and divorce cases. You only get one chance to protect your fathers rights, mothers rights or grandparent rights in court. Avoid the tricks and traps of questioning. This books fast easy solution will let you watch the effectiveness of your case skyrocket! This book is 5 1/2" X 9" with more than 230 pages.

This book can reassure parents doing the right things, and has opened the hearts of an angry, self-centered parents, allowing them to put the needs of the children before their own desires. Parents often think they know what is going on in the hearts of their children, and are stunned to discover how much children see, hear and know. Get this book to see how children express their concerns. Give this book to someone who needs to know how the children feel. You will see your children in these letters. The letters are funny, sad, happy, hopeful and amazing. This book is has 190 letters. PayPal   Google

2010 Edition. Chapters include forms that will help you 'Get a Handle on Your Situation', deal with 'The Professionals', institute and maintain control, 'Case management', and give you 'Examples of Legal Forms'. Fathers Rights and Mothers Rights groups encourage dads and moms to use the 'Incident Report Forms' and an observer to defuse potentially explosive confrontations. The 'Condition of the Child Form' is excellent for creating a paper trail to prove real charges or disprove false abuse charges. Other forms include Contact Problem and Incident List, Evidence to Disprove Statements, Equipment & Service Options, Witness Practice - Review, Evaluating the professionals, Authorization for Childs Medical Care, Temporary Delegation of Parental Authority, Trip Permission. Essential to the effective management of the most important event in your life. The control you gain and maintain can help with child custody or divorce. This book is 8 1/2" X 11" and contains more than 320 examples and forms. There is the full Table of Contents for the book at our website. Undated every year.

Advice is usually given by people without the real information or life experience, with the right intention at the wrong time. With this book you can take advice when you want it and ready to hear it. You can act on what you have learned, mull it over or discard the advice altogether without interference. This book will not allow you to give the opposition power you might imagine but that they do not really have or let you allow others to diminish the importance you play in your children's lives. Divorce is never easy, this will help. This book has been called 'Chicken Soup' for the Child Custody Case. It will help a lot and it certainly can't hurt. This book is 5 1/2" X 9" and has more than 1,700 entries.    

Assemblies of God Marriage Encounter
Baptist Marriage Encounter
Episcopal Marriage Encounter
Jewish Marriage Enhancement
International Lutheran Marriage Encounter
Methodist Marriage Encounter
Roman Catholic Marriage Encounter
Seventh-Day Adventist Marriage Encounter
United Church of Christ Marriage Encounter
Interfaith Marriage Encounter Circle Marriage Encounter, is a weekend away from home, family and responsibilities where in a comfortable, secluded environment a couple is guided in the discovery of new techniques of communicating and sharing with one another. It is not a retreat, but it is a program designed to give couples the opportunity to examine their lives together, their weaknesses and strong points, their attitudes toward each other and toward their families. Couples are given the opportunity to look at themselves, privately with their partner in an honest, face-to-face, heart-to-heart encounter.

Engaged Encounter, is a weekend experience designed to help couples prepare personally and as a couple for marriage. The focus is on the marriage, not on the wedding. "A wedding is a day ... a marriage is a lifetime." Couples are shown communication and decision-making techniques they can use throughout their lifetime together. Engaged Encounter is specifically designed for quiet reflection and discussion by each couple. It is a positive, simple, common-sense experience between two people who are either seriously considering engagement, engaged or recently married. At no time will the couple be asked to share their private experiences with the group.

This site is part of the Telecom/Police STOP BULLYING Campaign. Spot and Bo are here to show you around the site. You can hang out with Bo and his friends and play the No Bully game, and he's got lots of other useful stuff for kids. Spot can help you to find out about support services in your community and ways that adults can help kids to deal with bullying.

This site originates in New Zealand but addresses a world wide problem. Telecom is the major sponsor of Police programs which help young New Zealanders to avoid becoming offenders or victims of crime. The programs encourage children and young people to act safely and confidently to protect themselves and their property, and avoid drug abuse. Telecom supports the Police because we recognize it is the responsibility of all New Zealanders to allow our children and young people to grow up in a safe and healthy environment.

The latest IRS publications and forms with instructions for download in the various formats.

Minnesota Father's Rights Center  (952) 746.2153
10400 Viking Drive,Ste. 500, MN
mbeaulier@hjlawfirm.com

Minnesota Father's Rights Center. Locate lawyers, legal articles and
bulletin boards on father's rights issues.

750 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002   (202) 336-5500

4601 North Park Ave, Arcade Suite 101, Chevy Chase, M.D. 20815

"The nation's medical specialty society dedicated to educating physicians and improving the treatment of individuals suffering from alcoholism or other addictions."  (301) 656-3920

Back On Track Mediation  612-910-0308
8308 15th Avenue South , Bloomington, MN 55425
info@backontrackmediation.com

We are a mediation and arbitration service. We offer dispute resolution for all types and areas of disputes. We specialize in families and divorce matters. With primary focus on parenting time and visitation time expediting, parenting consultants, custody, visitation, support, division of assets and debts. We have very reasonable fees with reduced fees available to families.
Why Choose Divorce Mediation?
Conventional divorce is a lengthy, time-consuming, often expensive process. Financial and emotional costs are high for both parties.

Divorce mediation saves both time and money. There are no large legal fees and it eliminates unnecessary suffering by promoting cooperative problem-solving.
By selecting mediation individuals in a dissolving marriage are choosing to take charge of their lives by maintaining their sense of dignity and self-esteem. They are saying that they prefer to end their marriage in a cooperative, forward-thinking way which minimizes the anger often associated with divorce. Parties get to jointly decide what is right for them, instead of the courts deciding for them.
Please contact us with any questions or for more information

8181 Professional Place, Suite 201, Landover, MD 20785

CHADD Works To Improve the Lives of People With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Through Education, Advocacy, and Support. We the People, Building Partnerships Through Education, Advocacy, Support and Research. 

We work to improve the quality of news and entertainment media both for children and about children's issues.

A safe, permanent home isn't something a child should only dream about. Almost half a million children in the United States live in foster care, meant to be a temporary haven. They have been removed from their homes, not because they did anything wrong, but because they've been abused or neglected.
One judge had an idea to help these children find a way into safe, permanent homes more quickly. His idea was CASA...

Knowledge must be shared. Our goal is to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness throughout the world. Introduction Our purpose; helpful tips; how to contact us. Disorders The 52 most common mental disorders including: description, diagnosis, treatment, and research findings. Medications The 67 most common psychiatric drugs including: indications, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse effects, overdose, dosage, and research findings.

You Can Help Find a Cure Right now, there is not enough money to support the many important scientific projects that are paving the way for the cures for psychiatric illness. You can help. Government employees... Designate your United Way and/or CFC #1196 on your campaign's pledge card. Corporate campaigns and matching gift programs can increase the size of your gifts to NARSAD. Thank you for your support.

Site/Web Search Databases, Research Briefs, Latest Research, Conference Calendar, Workplace Issues, Resources & Referrals, Related Links, What's New, Alcohol & Drug Facts, On-Line Catalog, Funding/Grants, Online Forums, Kids Area

The National Depressive & Manic- Depressive Association would like to welcome you to our home page. It is full of helpful information from education to advocacy to support and much more.          

1834 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009

Until every child goes to school "Ready to Learn, Ready to Succeed," America's promise will never be realized. What does it mean for every child to be "Ready to Learn, Ready to Succeed?" In addition to caring and supportive parents, it takes quality and affordable: health coverage, child care, out-of-school activities, education, and violence-free communities. How can you take action to support our children? Join Stand For Children and become part of a growing nationwide grassroots voice for children. Email your Members of Congress to Stand For Children on specific issues. Share your thoughts, and read what others have to say, on issues affecting children. Sign the Stand For Children pledge. 

SHELTERS

Alexandra House
Blaine, Minnesota: 612-780-2330
www.alexandrahouse.org

Lewis House
Eagan, Minnesota: 651-452-7288
Inver Grove Heights: 651-646-5553

Casa De Esperanza
St. Paul, Minnesota: 651-646-5553

Harriet Tubman Women's Shelter
Minneapolis, Minnesota: 612-825-8000
24-Hour Crisis Line: 612-825-0000

Home Free
Plymouth, Minnesota: 559-4945

Gandparents Winning Custody of their Grandchildren

Neil and Gail Gallagher are winners in the fight to gain custody of your grandchildren. They truly are the voice of the children. Because of their 4 year quest to protect their grandchildren, they know the legal obstacles and challenges you may encounter along the way. They have been through the process and pain and their story and struggles will inspire you to press ahead and never quit in your quest for answers. Gail's book tells her story and includes the legal timeline. In Grandparents Winning Custody Of Grandchildren, you will find the information you need in your quest to rescue your grandchildren.

Sojourner Project, Inc.
Hopkins, Minnesota: 612-933-7422

Women's Advocates
St. Paul, Minnesota: 651-227-8284

Women's Nations
St. Paul, Minnesota: 651-222-5836

SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY

MN Battered Women's Coalition
St. Paul, Minnesota 651-646-6177

Division of Indian Work
Minneapolis, Minnesota 612-722-8722

African American Family Services
Minneapolis, Minnesota 612-871-7878

Domestic Abuse Victims Service Center 
348-5073

Cornerstone Advocacy Services
884-0330

MO-Corporations

MO-Wstrn. Dist. Court Rec

Project P.E.A.C.E.
536-1850

Domestic Abuse Project
874-7063

ORDERS FOR PROTECTION

Domestic Abuse Victim Service Center
Hennepin County, Minnesota:
612-348-5073

Domestic Abuse Office
Ramsey County, Minnesota:
612-266-2800

Clerk of Court
Dakota County, Minnesota
Apple Valley: 612-891-7256
Hastings: 651-438-8110
South St. Paul: 651-451-1791

Court Administrator
Scott County, Minnesota:
952-496-8200

Court Administrator
Carver County, Minnesota:
952-361-1420

Family Violence Network
Washington County, Minnesota:
651-770-8544

Family Court Administrator
Anoka County, Minnesota:
763-422-7372