by Heidi Webb | Mar 5, 2020 | 2020
Conversations with my now grown children have shifted from a primary focus on their own needs (mostly) to their more global concerns- some political, much about global climate change and the very real impact they anticipate it having on them and their peers in the...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 20, 2019 | 2019
As I watched the extended family relationships unfold in Marriage Story, they made me think about the complex layered relationships in a marriage. The relationships a couple shares with their extended families are sometimes happy and healthy, sometimes enmeshed, other...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 19, 2019 | 2019
In Marriage Story, tensions over Henry’s custody are of course the most salient and emotionally taxing parts of the story. While the lawyers try to position their clients as the most appropriate person for their child to live with, the clients themselves are at best...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 18, 2019 | 2019
When parents have intractable differences regarding their children and look to the Court to resolve their differences, judges oftentimes appoint a guardian ad litem (GAL) to investigate the family’s overarching circumstances to determine how the child(ren)’s best...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 18, 2019 | 2019
From my vantage point as a family law practitioner I found it difficult to watch two particular elements of Marriage Story. The first was the film’s legal inaccuracy relative to moving a child from one state to another, and the other was the all-too-accurate...
