To validate your feelings as a parent when the courts redefine you as a custodial, or non custodial parent. Regardless of the nomenclature used in your district court, you have now entered a system which now focuses on you. It will carefully examine your ability to nurture your child, and requires you to specify how you will parent in conjunction with another parent or guardian. Toby Center staff understand this frustration. Let us help you deal with the many changes you, and your children, will now experience.

Our philosophy is based on the research of its founder, Dr. Mark Roseman, child custody expert, author and speaker. Dr. Roseman affirms the research that indeed, ‘we are all a village’. Says Dr. Roseman, “as the research shows that child custody determinations and orders may impact a child’s family up to 150 years – six generations – then we all have the responsibility as a community to improve child outcomes when parents separate. We need to understand that in most cases, anger will subside and give way to rational thought. So, too, will court decisions have more effectiveness when mediation and co-parenting are the resolution for high conflict that so often characterizes separation and divorce.”