Raising teen girls is a unique challenge. From conflicts and frustrated responses, adults often feel clueless about how to help their teens go through complicated situations that affect their mental health. The first step to becoming a helpful adult is … Read More
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Help Your Child Become More Independent
Every parent wants to raise children that are independent, free-thinking, and know what they want and figure out how to obtain it. However, raising independent children is a challenge itself – especially because parents feel the need to resist the … Read More
Main Questions for Alimony, Child Support, And Taxes
Many people have difficulty in telling how alimony differs from child support. It lies in their purposes. Alimony is paid as financial help for the second spouse, while child support is a payment meant to provide the basic needs of … Read More
Ziploc – Fit for Families
Ziploc bags – While we are cognizant of the needs to reduce plastics, one tool that saves us so much time and stress as single parents is Ziploc bags. We reduce plastic use elsewhere in order to minimize the impact. … Read More
7 Tips On Talking To Your Kids About Dating
Suppose you’ve found someone that you truly love. It can be a coworker at your job, an old high school sweetheart, or someone you’ve grown fond of elsewhere. Whatever the case may be, you’re in love … but you also … Read More
Coping with the Grief from Divorce
Divorce is a commonplace tragedy. In the United States, around two thirds of marriages end in divorce, but despite this regular occurrence as a fact of life, it still hurts. A marriage is built as a relationship forever – when … Read More
Important Financial Fixes For First-Time Parents
When you have a baby, some things, like choosing a nursery color, can wait. Others can’t. Financial concerns fall into the latter category. SupportPay is dedicated to helping moms and dads co-parent effectively by supporting their financial efforts. Their app helps … Read More
Raising Daughters as a Single Dad
Being a single dad can be challenging, but interesting at best. Even for divorced dads, single parenting can bring different experiences and challenges every day. While 17.51% of fathers have custody of their children as of 2013, that doesn’t mean that fathers … Read More
Self-Esteem & Confidence for Teens & Tweens
In honor of our soon to debut kids page, we at SupportPay have dropped an article here for you to share with your teens and tweens. Hope they enjoy & benefit with some self-esteem and confidence. When I was a teenager, the … Read More
Confidence & Self-Esteem in Parents
It’s International Self-esteem and Confidence month and we at SupportPay want to help you make the most of it. It is a great time to take stock of our own confidence levels and see where we can use a boost. As a … Read More
What is Child-Centered Divorce (Professional’s edition)
Divorce is not only a trauma to parents and children, but also divorce professionals. Perhaps you’re already aware of child-centered divorce and its positive effects, and perhaps you are recommending or aiding in the implementation of a child-centered divorce, but … Read More
What is Child-Centered Divorce (Parent’s Edition)
Divorce is always a trauma to parents and children. However, the method parents use to divorce has the power to heal the trauma, ignore it, or perpetuate it for generations. Child-centered divorce helps parents make all decisions through the lens … Read More
How Getting Remarried Affects Child Support?
Many divorced parents will eventually make the decision to remarry. However, entering into a new marriage could affect previously-negotiated child support. It is crucial to know the child support laws in your state, and how they will affect you and your … Read More
Getting Remarried in California: How Will it Affect Child Support?
Just because your previous marriage ended in divorce doesn’t mean that you will never remarry. However, remarrying can affect the child support payments that were negotiated between you and your ex-spouse. It is important to know the child support laws in … Read More
Why Colorado Parents Should Take Co-Parenting Classes
Many states require divorcing spouses to take one or more co-parenting classes. There are online classes which co-parents can take in Colorado. Though some of them are court-ordered, it doesn’t mean that is the only time co-parents should consider taking them. These … Read More