Parent Advocate & Mediator Rebecca Stern Explains How to Help Children with Special Needs Survive and Thrive From a Divorce

An interview with Ilyssa Panitz

Rebecca Stern devotes her practice to helping parents going through a divorce support their child with special needs and every level.

When parents with minor children are getting divorced, they usually sit down with their legal counsel to work out a custody and visitation schedule for the kids. “IF” a couple has a child with special needs, that landscape is going to look a lot different for a mirage of reasons. Issues such as custody, visitation, financial support, therapy, childcare, medical benefits, special schooling, and tutoring can cost a lot more and therefore it can possibly make this matter more complex to negotiate and reach a settlement on. Why? Because when everyone talks about the money and the sum of what everything adds up to, it often financially exceeds what things typically run. That can put a monetary strain on mom/dad and lead to further arguments. Experts in “the special needs” area stress, not only do both sides need to address what funds should to be set aside for the children “now,” but they also need to look ahead as the child get older and how those…