I want to thank everyone for your birthday and well wishes for my 3-week vacation. It is true. I didn’t read email for just over 3 weeks. I turned off email notifications on my phone. I had no reason to open Outlook, so I didn’t; in the past I have moved the Outlook...

With the COVID-19 pandemic, navigating the parenting landscape for divorced and split parents has reached a new level of complicated. Back in March, we were faced with the immediate issue of interpretation of parenting time schedules, given their connection to the...

This is “that time” of summer—when it feels like everyone is (or should be) on vacation, when we’re all savoring the end of summer before we plug back in to our real lives in the real heat of August and then power through to the holidays. But this year is different,...

I was born in Montreal. My family immigrated to Dallas, Texas in the late 60s before I started Kindergarten. Growing up, we were a Canadian family in Texas. There was one summer the doctor had to prescribe air conditioning because of my heat rash, since my mother...

I am very grateful to all of you who have reached out and encouraged me in my May challenges. They worked! I have fully transitioned to a productive work-from-home life that is both professional and balanced. I am getting outdoors every day. I have a good workday...

Adjusting to the new Stay-at-Home reality of this pandemic has been challenging, to say the least. We are now 60 days in, and everyone is talking about the “pivot” – to a new work environment, to a new school environment, to new products or services your business will...

At Lazar Law, we have made the decision to continue to work remotely at least through the month of May. We will see what the end of May brings, but we have been able to move our firm online and conduct all our business while we Work From Home. It has been a month of...

After 6 weeks of quarantine, it has become inevitable in many families that it is time to separate. And while restrictions are lifting, May 2020 will mostly remain stay-at-home. We won’t yet have regular outlets outside the home for distraction. At this point, when we...

I have recently been interviewed for CNN and BBC Radio. Click to read the CNN article “Navigating Child Custody in the Time of Coronavirus” Click to hear the BBC Radio Newsday interview. Both major news outlets asked me the same question: What do separated or divorced...

What I am learning during this pandemic is that we can stay connected and actually nurture, plant and grow our personal  and professional communities, and maybe even merge them a bit into a new form of relationship that lets us share ourselves and our humanity as we...

February is over; can you believe it? These have been difficult weeks, and I think everyone is struggling. It has been such a busy month for us at Lazar Law, working on complicated cases; the year is in full swing, and the slog of winter has definitely set in. Lucky...

I’ve seen a lot of tweets this week along the lines that this month has been the longest year already, and I have to agree, it feels like January 2020 has taken forever to come to a close. I read it is the longest, darkest month of 2020, so congratulations, we’ve made...