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Richard J. Avdoian, MS, MSW, CSP

Written by Molly Murphy, Cordell & Cordell, PC   

 You have separated or broken up, and you are facing life without the partner who has helped you raise your child.  The one thing you can both agree on is that you love your child.  Hopefully you can both agree that you want what is best for your child.  As you know, you both may have very different ideas on what that is.  The following are some ground rules you should live by for your child’s sake:

Richard J. Coffee, II, Litigation Manager - Illinois Offices, Cordell & Cordell, P.C.

With children’s activities and family routines, a regular time for communication is invariably going to run into conflicts.

As the claimed (or perceived) abilities of cell phones and the Internet to provide live video communication are tossed about, the use of virtual visitation as compensation for lack of actual visitation is being asserted more often, usually by the parent with physical custody.  Four states (Florida, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin) have included in their statutes references to some form of video or other electronic communication as part of the visitation provisions.  Other states have proposals pending and the several private providers of websites for such virtual visitation are promoting their services as a panacea to long distance parenting issues.