by Heidi Webb | Jun 9, 2020 | 2020
Since George Floyd’s murder I’ve found myself immersed in conversations about systemic racism and my bubble of white privilege. Only days ago, having finished reading Can You Hear Me? by Nick Morgan, I had a blog swirling in my mind about virtual communication, its...
by Heidi Webb | May 5, 2020 | 2020
Over the course of the past couple of months I’ve become reluctantly accustomed to remote meetings. I now find that during the course of a day it’s not unusual for me to meet with fifty or more people through Zoom professional and client meetings, expanding my...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 26, 2020 | 2020
Mollie turned six years old this past Thursday. She’d been planning her party with her Mom and looking forward to it for many weeks (which as we all remember is a really long time when you’re five). But as the day grew closer Mollie’s mom realized there...
by Heidi Webb | Mar 17, 2020 | 2020
For many years when I’ve talked of divorce I’ve said if only our society recognized the toll it took on individuals and families––if it were considered an epidemic––the Center for Disease Control (CDC) would have made significant interventions. I made those comments...
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...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Noah Baumbach’s insightful Marriage Story script was brought to life through the incredible acting of Adam Driver (Charlie) and Scarlett Johansson (Nicole). The film felt real, painfully accurate and palpably disturbing as it ushered us through the arc of a loving...
