The Splits: How to help your kids navigate separation and divorce

Are you separated or thinking about separating?

Does the thought of sharing that information with your kids leave you feeling a bit freaked out?

It's very hard to tell your kids that you are getting a divorce. It's even harder if you and your ex differ about what happened. And then there's the question of when you should tell them and what exactly you should tell them.

Whether you have the opportunity to follow an amicable pathway or you find yourself in an adversarial situation, Bron O'Loan shows you how to support your kids through the process by talking to them and understanding their needs. The Splits is a guide to helping your children through a family separation, and your ticket to a better and more

positive life.

The Splits will help you to:

• Move to a place where you can love your life again
• Find the confidence to have helpful conversations about divorce with your kids
• Get past the ups and downs to begin to establish a new normal for your family
• Know how to give your kids the information they need, when they need it
• Understand how the separation process and the court process works
• Support your kids in traversing the tricky bits of divorce, like updating their friends about what's going on.

Bron O'Loan is a passionate collaborative family lawyer, independent children's lawyer and parenting coordinator, with an enthusiasm for helping people get through the splits with their family relationships intact enough to ensure the kids are okay.After many years of experience as a family lawyer, in 2020 Bron founded O'Loan Family Law, a boutique law firm in Sydney. As well as her fancy lawyer job, Bron is a mum to three hungry, and often moody, teenagers, an avid writer and an ardent advocate of supporting domestic and family violence victims.