Remember the kids in a divorce

October 10, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver “Close to 15 years ago you wrote a wonderful article about a divorce case where the mother kept the children away from their father. Something amazing happened when that story ran, because we were going through a divorce, talked...

Remember the kids in divorces

November 22, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver In my town, “Divorce Court” is in Department 13 of our Superior Court. It is an appropriately numbered, bad luck, sad place. If you believe that rooms and buildings can possess a spirit, then those of Department 13 are tormented,...

Should Dad get involved?

February 11, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I am a retired naval officer living near the Naval Weapons Station at Lemoore with my wife of 35 years. She is from Japan, and our son — who I will call Henry — got her great looks,”...

The case of the miserly husband

March 22, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I have made one of the worst mistakes of my life. I am 48, and lost my husband due to cancer four years ago. We had a great marriage and I care for our teenage sons. We are a farming family which has...

The cost of divorce

May 21, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver Once upon a time in a small Northern California town that reminds you of “Back to the Future,” lived two high school sweethearts, Ali and Mike. After graduation they married, promptly had two children, now grown and starting families of...