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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Refresher: How Can I Help My Son Feel More Stability In A Broken Home?

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

From my Call of the Day archives; Sara has been divorced for 2 years and has a 9-year-old child. She’s attempting to set up regular visitations with her son’s father, but it’s been a chaotic mess impacting her child. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0

Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives.

0:04.7

Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph,

0:13.0

11.

0:16.2

Sarah, welcome to the program.

0:18.6

Hi, Dr. Laura.

0:20.1

The reason why I'm calling is I'm having trouble putting, placing regulations on a custody agreement with my ex-husband.

0:37.7

Isn't that something the court does, madam?

0:41.3

Yes, yes.

0:42.8

Isn't that something the court does?

0:46.0

Yes, and we were divorced two years ago.

0:50.8

No, no, no, I'm a little confused.

0:52.4

You said you're having trouble doing something that I know the court is responsible and has the power to do.

0:58.7

The reason why I'm having this problem now is because I didn't adhere to the court's guidelines for the custody agreement.

1:16.5

What were the guidelines given by the court?

1:19.9

They were, their standard...

1:22.6

I don't know what is standard where you live.

1:26.0

So if you could just please tell me specifically, what did the court mandate in your specific case?

1:31.5

In our specific case, it mandates for him to pick the child up from school on Friday afternoon

1:41.5

and then drop the child off on Monday morning and in that time

1:47.1

he'd be with me until the next two weeks passed when that happens again so it's

1:55.4

every two weeks with a slightly extended weekend.

2:01.6

Anything else?

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