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The Visitation Handbook

by Brette McWhorter Sember

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By Wayne Parker, About.com

The Visitation Handbook

There are few impacts of divorce of greater challenge than working out the details of visitation with the children. Attorney Brette McWhorter Sember understands that better than most, having worked with many divorcing parents and their children. In her new book, The Visitation Handbook, Sember offers solid and well reasoned advice for both custodial and non custodial parents.

In fact, one of the things that makes The Visitation Handbook unique is that it is really two books in one. Using the innovative approach of a "flip book," the author puts one volume geared toward custodial parents and one toward non custodial parents back to back. Thus, the book provides an excellent resource for parents in both situations, and offers an opportunity for parents to understand both perspectives.

Ms. Sember's focus in her book on meeting the needs of the children involved is an important one. It would have been easy to write a book like so many others dealing with divorce issues that emphasizes the needs and perspective of the adults.

The book offers great advice for helping children deal with visitation issues, insights into communication with the other parent to minimize pain and confusion for the children, and working through holiday issues, dealing with grandparents, and other vital topics. At the end of each volume is also a listing of resources of help to children and parents, information on reporting child abuse in the United States and Canada and a comprehensive index.

The Visitation Handbook is a vital reference for parents who are divorced and must deal with child custody or visitation issues. It is a practical guide offering well practiced advice and useful tools for dealing with this always difficult situation.

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