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Estate Planning For Blended Families

Who has power of attorney if something were to happen to you? Where would children go? Have the two of you spelled out what you want to have happen with all of your children when the time comes.

New guide provides great support and easy tools on how to make your estate planning easy and take care of all of your loved ones, after your gone. Click to learn more about Emily Bouchard's new book Estate Planning for Blended Families.

Shared Values: Simple Steps to Help You Find Common Ground to Bring Your Family Closer

Most stepfamilies are not blended at all, but are more like two separate family units having to navigate life together, usually despite your desire and intention as a couple. This disparity often leads to power struggles and conflict. Understanding how to incorporate your values into your family’s experience gives you as a couple an effective approach that brings family members together in a unifying way.

Our very own blended families expert, Emily Bouchard, addresses blended family issues each month in the StepMom Magazine. Subscribe today!

Emily Bouchard Quoted by USA Today

In the 2/7/11 edition of USA Today, our very own Emily Bouchard was quoted in an article entitled, "Financial planning for Brady Bunches -- Blended families make life more complicated." The article explores how blending families complicates financial issues and (gratefully) gives some valueable suggestions on how to deal with these challenges.

Listen to Emily Bouchard, Blended Families expert, interviewed on the Family Matters radio show.

Step-Parents at your Wedding?

When Martha Stewart Weddings interviewed me regarding the tricky issues related to having a stepmother of the bride, and asked about proper stepmother wedding etiquette, I was thrilled to learn that publications of this nature were taking this issue seriously.

Knowing that the Martha Stewart magazine article would be a short and sweet response to the complex set of challenges faced by more and more brides and grooms, we at Blended-Families.com wanted to provide a more in depth special report on this topic.

"Tips on Wedding Etiquette with Divorced Parents in the Mix"

What we created was an ebook that has answers to a series of questions and scenarios related to planning a beautiful, meaningful wedding when stepparents (or new partners or lady friends) are in the mix. This includes having a stepmother of the bride and/or a stepfather of the bride.

- Emily Bouchard, MSSW

Dr. Warshak gives tips on overcoming parental alienation

Immunize Your Kids From Divorce Poison

Give your children the tools to greatly reduce the stress and manipulation of having a parent that engages in parental alienation syndrome behaviors.

Get this useful and enlightening audio recording and transcript of our interview on the subject with Dr. Richard Warshak.

It's packed with tips for shedding that horrible feeling your kids get from being stuck in the middle between you and your ex-spouse.

Overcome Step Wars

Blended-Families.com recently interviewed Dr. Grace Gabe and
Dr. Jean Lipman-Blumen, authors of ground-breaking book, StepWars: Overcoming the Perils and making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies. Callers were given the chance to ask their toughest questions to Drs. Gabe and Lipman-Blumen.

Get your audio recording and transcript of Overcoming Step Wars.