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...
by Heidi Webb | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
When my son told me about Marriage Story, a movie that was then soon to be out in theatres and later on Netflix, he suggested I see it in a theatre in order to hear, see and feel the audience reactions. He’s a wise man, and so I followed his advice and went to...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
More and more often people in their 60’s and 70’s are reaching out to me for consultations, but not about themselves and “grey divorce” (something family lawyers talk about in terms of older divorcing clients), but about their adult children (who are in their 40’s and...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
What we see and what we don’t see informs how we understand the world, and consequently how we act and don’t act in it. Recently I heard three artists talk about how they made visible the concerns they had that are typically hidden from view; Stephen Tourlentes, who...
