Wendy Hickey

Q. I recently filed for divorce and got temporary sole legal and physical custody of our children because my wife has serious mental health issues that she is only starting to work through.

My husband just got a job on the West Coast and left us. Now I am raising our six children alone while trying to work to support us all. I want to move my parents into our first-floor uni

I am moving overseas this summer for a new job. My ex routinely drags me back to court at least once a year claiming child support needs to be readjusted. We divorced when our daughter was a year old. She is now 8. I cannot imagine this routine will stop just because I'm living in another country. If anything, I suspect she will rejoice in the inconvenience returning to the US to go to court w

Q. My divorce has been a long and difficult process. We finally reached an agreement after mediating for over a year.

My wife and I are trying to mediate. We have several properties and we cannot agree on how much they are worth. We are also struggling to agree on who to hire to value the properties. The one thing we can agree on is the mediator scheduling a session just so we can talk in detail about the qualifications of the appraisers proposed by each counsel is a w

My 10-year-old daughter disclosed that she is being abused by her stepmother and is due to spend six weeks with her father and stepmother for the summer.

Q. My ex relocated to New York City for work a year ago. Before he moved, we had 50/50 custody of our children but now he rarely sees them and obviously cannot see them half the time.

Q. My husband and I agreed we would get long-term care insurance once our children finished college. Rather than retire together as planned, my husband filed for divorce.