• 09
  • November
    2011

Residents of Denver who are going through divorce are like most people in that they probably want to make sure that they minimize the impact their separation from their spouse will have on their children. Some people like this have started an interesting new trend called "nesting."

Basically, in "nesting," instead of shuttling the children back and forth between the mother's home and the father's home after a divorce, the children stay put in one house and it is the parents who change.

The idea behind nesting is that children are not disrupted by having to commute between homes and do not have to go through the hassle and irritation of having some possessions at their mother's house and other possessions at their father's home.

Nesting is an interesting idea that would probably be a good fit for some people, but not the right solution for others. If you are interested in trying this idea, make sure you speak about it with your family law attorney. Nesting raises many of its own unique legal considerations, such as who owns the home in which the children stay. If you and your spouse decide to co-own it, that is a more complex arrangement and so will need explicit documentation to spell out who is responsible for insurance, repairs, etc.

Those legal questions are in addition to more commonplace ones, such as deciding who will have authority to redecorate and which parent (or both) will do things let set curfews and decide on chores.

In any event, nesting is an interesting trend and one that you might consider.

Source: Time, "Latchkey Parents," Belinda Luscombe, Sept. 26, 2011