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Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow

Written by Cary Quashen, CAS Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:19

April is National Alcohol Awareness Month and this year’s theme is” Help For Today, Hope For Tomorrow.” Alcohol Awareness Month was established in 1987 by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) to help reduce the stigma often associated with alcoholism. Many have heard me say that I dislike awareness months. I dislike them, because I believe we should be educating people and changing lives on a daily basis. But I’ll take a yearly recognition if it draws attention to the destructive disease of alcoholism and educates people about recovery.

The Children’s Therapist in Divorce

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Written by Irving H. Zaroff, JD LMFT and Dana Schutz Keane, MA LMFT Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:19

Whether children experience expected emotional and/or psychological problems or are more adversely affected, the help of a trained child therapist may be important. The need for outside help may be dictated by observation of how the children’s behaviors and moods change, the level of conflict between the parents, and the capacity of parents to provide the support children may need.
When therapy is advisable, a number of issues may present themselves. One key issue is whether both parents support treatment and can they agree on the choice of the therapist?

Mending Broken Hearts Through Foster Care

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Written by Brianne Mancini, MSW Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:18

“If you never want your heart to be broken, if you never want to feel pain, then put your heart in a box and never give it away, not even to an animal.” – C.S. Lewis.
Our hearts get broken for many reasons throughout our lives; it is part of what makes us human. Sometimes, the most difficult heartbreak is to witness a child with a broken heart. In January 2013, 4,925 children in Los Angeles County alone were in Certified Foster Family homes.

New Family Unity Provisional Waiver to Go Into Effect

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Written by Aime M. Katambwe Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:18

USCIS will start accepting applications for the new Form I-601A waiver on March 4. The new waiver process will allow the immediate relatives of U.S. citizens to apply for a provisional unlawful presence waiver right here in the U.S. before their visa interview abroad. Once approved, they will legally remain in the U.S. and only leave family to attend their immigrant visa interview abroad.
Under this new rule, the applicant:

The Danger of Representing Yourself in a Divorce Case

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Written by Richard A. Marcus, Esq. Wednesday, 27 March 2013 13:17

A casualty of this horrible economy of ours has a lot more people representing themselves in court in divorce and custody cases. The old adage is that a person who represents his or her self has a client for a fool. That usually applies to attorneys who represent themselves. So, what do we say about lay persons representing themselves?
Unfortunately, those people are even bigger fools.