If your home is locked down because of potential exposure to the coronavirus, where should the kids be? Nearly four weeks into the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, that question is being raised more and more often, as families struggle with how to maintain parenting or custody arrangements while also minimizing the risk that… The post Of Custody, Quarantines, and Courts appeared first on Babbitt & Dahlberg, LLC ..read more

Answering Questions About COVID-19 and Custody Orders As of the time of this post, Ohio is under a stay-at-home order.  Most Ohioans have been directed to refrain from going to work, from traveling on non-essential business, or from coming into direct contact with people outside of their immediate household.  So how does that impact families… The post Parenting In a Pandemic appeared first on Babbitt & Dahlberg, LLC ..read more

One of David Letterman’s most oft-used bits was a semi-regular Top Ten list, which supposedly originated from his show’s “home office”.  The home office was, at various points, Sioux City, Iowa; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Oneonta, New York; Scottsdale, Arizona; and a host of others.  Of course, it was a fiction, a part of the joke,… The post Notes from the Home Office appeared first on Babbitt & Dahlberg, LLC ..read more

Anyone who’s watched or read the news in any form over the last ten days can probably tell you that there’s a lot of anxiety over the national reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Here in Ohio, we’ve gotten daily briefings from the Governor’s Office about the state’s response to the spread of the virus, and… The post Managing Anxiety in the Time of COVID-19 appeared first on Babbitt & Dahlberg, LLC ..read more

  Many of our clients have asked us how their cases and parenting arrangements will be impacted by the State of Ohio’s response to the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.  While the situation is fluid and ongoing, we now have a better idea of how one court system will react. Effective March 16, 2020, and for… The post COVID-19 and Franklin County Domestic Relations Matters appeared first on Babbitt & Dahlberg, LLC ..read more